Enterprise Solutions Architect

Simone Development • New York, NY

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About The Position

We are seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership and hands-on architectural direction for critical systems within our book publishing organization. This role is deeply focused on understanding, stabilizing, and modernizing long-standing legacy platforms that support business-critical processes. The successful candidate will lead architectural initiatives that balance operational continuity with incremental modernization, ensuring these core systems can safely evolve to support modern integration, analytics, and cloud-based capabilities. With 15+ years of experience, the ideal candidate brings deep architectural fluency in enterprise systems, strong supply chain domain knowledge, and experience guiding hybrid environments that span mainframe-era platforms and modern cloud technologies.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in solutions or enterprise architecture within operationally critical, legacy-heavy environments.
• Demonstrated success working with and modernizing enterprise systems, preferably in supply chain contexts.
• Strong understanding of application architectures, batch processing models, and legacy data structures.
• Deep experience with integration patterns spanning COBOL and .NET systems, including file-based exchange, batch scheduling, messaging, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on architectural experience in hybrid environments combining legacy platforms with cloud services (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, operations teams, and delivery partners.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in book publishing, media, or other content-driven organizations.
• Familiarity with: Supply chain and ERP platforms Warehouse management (WMS) and transportation systems (TMS) Legacy schedulers, batch frameworks, and file-based integration patterns
• Exposure to enterprise data platforms, reporting, and analytics built on legacy operational data.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the architecture of legacy COBOL and .NET-based supply chain systems, including warehousing, inventory management, distribution, order fulfillment, and financial platforms.
• Develop a deep architectural understanding of existing applications, batch jobs, data structures, and integration points.
• Lead efforts to stabilize, optimize, modernize and extend legacy systems, defining phased approaches that may include refactoring, encapsulation, re-platforming, or selective replacement.
• Design architectures that integrate online and batch-driven systems with modern ERP platforms, cloud services, and third-party logistics providers.
• Drive initiatives such as: API and service layers over existing legacy applications Decomposition of monolithic systems into domain-aligned capabilities Transition from file-based and overnight batch processing to event-driven or near–real-time patterns where appropriate
• Establish and maintain architecture standards specific to legacy systems, including documentation, dependency mapping, and design reviews.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to aging codebases, batch scheduling dependencies, data consistency, and operational fragility.
• Ensure architectural decisions support reliability, recoverability, auditability, and compliance requirements for core supply chain operations.
• Work closely with engineers, legacy system specialists, and supply chain operations teams to ensure architectures are practical, executable, and well understood.
• Support implementation teams by reviewing designs, guiding modernization sequencing, and resolving cross-system integration challenges.
• Translate supply chain requirements into clear architectural designs grounded in the realities of existing platforms.
• Promote best practices in system modernization, including encapsulation, interface stabilization, and technical debt reduction.
• Document and share architectural patterns and lessons learned across supply chain and legacy initiatives.
• Support evaluation and selection of modernization tools, platforms, and system integrators.
• Provide architectural oversight for vendor-led modernization efforts, ensuring alignment with long-term supply chain architecture goals.
• Contribute to build vs. buy vs. transform decisions for supply chain systems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees