IT Director - Enterprise System Architect

Dashiell•Houston, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The IT Director – Enterprise System Architect is a deeply hands-on technical role responsible for standing up and maintaining the systems, environments, and tooling that support the transformation program. Business and functional requirements are owned by the transformation team; this role takes those defined requirements and makes the platforms real — setting the technical architecture strategy and roadmap, provisioning and configuring environments, managing licensing, establishing integration and middleware, setting up and operating the testing toolchain, and building the reporting and data foundation. The role ensures candidate platforms such as InEight, IFS, Salesforce, and Oracle Fusion are correctly licensed, configured, integrated, tested, and deployed consistently across environments. The position is based in our Houston, Texas office located at 12301 Kurland Drive, Suite 400 and reports to Dashiell’s SVP, Transformation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
8+ years in enterprise IT, with significant time in hands-on solution/technical architecture, integration, or platform engineering roles.
Demonstrated experience configuring, integrating, and standing up environments for major enterprise system programs (ERP/CRM/HR/field).
Experience within engineering, construction, utilities, infrastructure, or large capital-project environments is strongly preferred, including familiarity with project-based models (project controls, project accounting, revenue recognition, contract and change management).
Experience defining technical architecture strategy, roadmaps, standards, and reference designs for an enterprise platform landscape, and sequencing the technical work to deliver them.
Hands-on experience configuring, integrating, or administering one or more of the platforms under evaluation — InEight, IFS, Salesforce, and/or Oracle Fusion — or closely comparable ERP/CRM/project-controls platforms.
Proven experience provisioning and managing environments (dev/QA/UAT/staging/production), configuration management, and release/deployment pipelines (CI/CD where applicable).
Experience managing enterprise software licensing — sizing, allocation, entitlements, and compliance/true-up tracking.
Hands-on experience setting up and administering test management and automation tooling (e.g., HP ALM / Micro Focus ALM Octane, Tricentis Tosca/qTest, or equivalent), including test data and defect-tracking integration.
Strong middleware and integration expertise, including APIs, iPaaS/ESB tooling (e.g., Boomi, MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services), and event/batch patterns.
Experience setting up and connecting reporting/analytics platforms, with hands-on Databricks experience (connections, ingestion/pipelines, and enabling downstream reporting) strongly preferred.
Solid working knowledge of enterprise systems across project management, project accounting, purchasing, inventory, subcontracts, vendor management, time and expense, HR, and financials.
Awareness of security, compliance, and data-protection requirements for enterprise systems, including identity and access management, audit, disaster recovery, and data retention.
Familiarity with the enterprise software landscape relevant to project-based companies across planning, finance, CRM, HR, procurement, project controls, and field execution.
Experience providing hands-on technical input during platform selection — building proofs of concept, standing up trial/sandbox environments, and validating integration and configuration feasibility.
Ability to take defined requirements from the transformation team and turn them into working configurations, integrations, environments, and test setups.
Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders across operations, finance, HR, supply chain, IT, and HSE, and to hold implementation partners to technical standards.
Strong communication and facilitation skills — able to explain complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders and document designs and decisions clearly.
Experience in large transformation programs, managing competing priorities while maintaining focus on quality, security, and stability.
A problem-solving, delivery-focused mindset: structured, detail-oriented, and comfortable working through ambiguity.
High level of ownership, integrity, and professionalism when representing the transformation to internal and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree is a plus but not required.
Occasional travel to other offices or meeting locations.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the technical architecture strategy and roadmap for the enterprise platform landscape — target-state systems, environments, integration, and data architecture — and sequence the technical work that delivers it in step with the transformation roadmap.
Provision, configure, and maintain enterprise platform environments (development, QA/test, UAT, staging, and production) for systems such as InEight, IFS, Salesforce, and Oracle Fusion, including sandbox provisioning, refresh cycles, and configuration management.
Own software licensing across enterprise platforms — sizing, procurement support, license allocation and assignment, environment/instance entitlements, and ongoing license compliance and true-up tracking.
Set up and operate the testing toolchain, including test management and automation tools (e.g., HP ALM / Micro Focus ALM Octane, Tricentis Tosca/qTest, or equivalent), test environment configuration, test data management, and defect tracking integration.
Coordinate the technical execution of testing cycles (system, integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance) and support cutover, go-live readiness, and early post-go-live stabilization from a systems standpoint.
Build and maintain integration and middleware connections between platforms, including APIs, iPaaS/ESB tooling (e.g., Boomi, MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, or native platform connectors), and batch/event data flows.
Set up and connect reporting and analytics infrastructure, with a focus on Databricks — configuring connections to source systems, building and maintaining data pipelines/ingestion, and enabling downstream reporting and dashboards.
Partner with infrastructure, security, and identity teams to implement non-functional requirements — performance, scalability, availability, disaster recovery, identity and access management, and data protection — across environments.
Support data migration execution, coordinating source-to-target mapping, load/reconciliation, and validation in the appropriate environments.
Serve as a hands-on technical point of contact for implementation partners and vendors, validating that configurations, integrations, and environment builds meet Dashiell’s standards.
Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, environment/licensing records, and knowledge transfer materials.
Perform special projects and complete other duties as assigned or requested.

Benefits

company-paid life insurance
accidental death and dismemberment insurance
long-term disability insurance
employee assistance program
medical coverage through a traditional PPO or one of two high-deductible health plans (with FSA or HSA options)
dental and vision coverage
supplemental life insurance
short-term disability
critical illness insurance
group accident insurance
hospital indemnity insurance
401(k) plan with immediate vesting