Enterprise Applications Architect

About this role

About Us
At ENFRA, we blend a rich history with a forward-looking vision. With over 100 years of experience, we are a pillar of stability in the energy infrastructure industry and a leader in innovative energy solutions. Our commitment to leveraging emerging technologies ensures that we remain at the forefront of the Energy-as-a-Service sector.
We believe in growth—not just for our business, but for our people. Our team members have the opportunity to advance their careers in a supportive environment that values continuous learning and development. We embrace innovation and encourage creative problem solving to tackle the energy infrastructure and energy challenges of tomorrow.
Inclusion is at the heart of our culture. We strive to create a workplace where every voice is heard and valued, fostering a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive our success.
Join us to be part of a legacy of excellence and a future of groundbreaking advancements. At ENFRA, stability, innovation, and growth are more than just values—they are the pillars of our continued success.
Overview
Position Purpose:
The Enterprise Applications Architect is ENFRA's senior technical resource for enterprise business applications and related integrations. The role is responsible for future-state application architecture, lifecycle roadmaps, integration architecture, application security models, environment strategy, technical recovery architecture, and the reliable operation of assigned enterprise platforms.
This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor position. The successful candidate must be comfortable moving between strategic architecture, business-process improvement, technical design, application administration, security administration, advanced support, vendor and consultant coordination, and technical project leadership. The role provides architecture and governance across the enterprise application portfolio while performing direct administration and support for specifically assigned applications.
The role reports to the Director of Enterprise Applications and works closely with business process owners, Information Security, Infrastructure, Data, Internal Audit, application developers, vendors, consultants, implementation partners, and managed service providers.
Responsibilities
Duties & Responsibilities:
Application strategy, architecture, and lifecycle management:

• Own and maintain application lifecycle strategies and multi-year roadmaps for enterprise business applications.

• Monitor vendor roadmaps, release requirements, supportability, end-of-support dates, platform dependencies, and technology risks; recommend upgrades, migrations, replacements, or remediation actions.

• Evaluate cloud, hosted, and on-premises deployment options and recommend solutions based on business requirements, security, integration needs, supportability, resilience, cost, and long-term architectural fit.

• Define future-state application architectures that are secure, scalable, supportable, configurable, resilient, and aligned with business objectives.

• Participate in enterprise architecture reviews for new or materially changed applications and services.

• Evaluate new technologies and recommend application platforms, tools, standards, and patterns that support business goals and the enterprise application roadmap.

• Maintain application architecture documentation, system context diagrams, environment diagrams, integration maps, standards, technical decisions, and operating procedures.

Business process and solution design:

• Partner with business leaders and process owners to understand current processes, identify improvement opportunities, and translate business requirements into practical technology solutions.

• Design application, configuration, workflow, security, and integration solutions that improve process effectiveness while maintaining appropriate controls and supportability.

• Communicate solution options, dependencies, tradeoffs, risks, operational impacts, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ensure that proposed solutions use existing platform capabilities and standard objects where practical before introducing custom components or new technologies.

Enterprise application ownership and administration:

• Provide advanced administration, technical oversight, and operational support for assigned enterprise business applications and environments.

• Manage application configurations, environments, releases, upgrades, patches, technical dependencies, and related operating documentation in coordination with business owners and service partners.

• Monitor and improve application availability, performance, reliability, supportability, recoverability, and user experience.

• Provide Tier I-II administration and support for specifically assigned services and serve as a Tier III technical escalation point for complex application, environment, security, and integration issues.

• Triage and resolve incidents, coordinate escalation when required, identify recurring issues, and implement durable corrective actions that reduce operational risk and technical debt.

• Support enterprise platforms that may include ERP, HRIS, payroll, time collection, expense management, project and construction applications, reporting services, secure file transfer, and associated technologies.

Integration architecture and data exchange:

• Define enterprise application integration architectures, standards, and reusable patterns for APIs, middleware, orchestration, secure file transfer, batch interfaces, and data synchronization.

• Architect integrations among enterprise applications and third-party platforms, including the appropriate use of existing standard objects and platform services.

• Develop technical designs and requirements for integrations to be built by internal developers, consultants, vendors, or implementation partners.

• Recommend new or materially changed…