Sr Director, Enterprise Architecture & AI Platforms

Post Holdings Inc.•Brentwood, MO

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, Integration and AI Platforms leads architecture strategy, governance, and execution for Post Holdings’ enterprise capabilities, with emphasis on integration platforms, AI-enabled automation, agentic platform enablement, and scalable technology patterns supporting corporate functions and shared enterprise services. The role partners with corporate IT, Business Unit technology leaders, functional executives, vendors, and delivery teams to shape roadmaps, influence investments, mature architecture practices, and develop capabilities for Post’s technology operating model. It reports directly to the Chief Technology Officer. The role provides senior architecture leadership for corporate and shared enterprise services and develops roadmaps for enterprise architecture, integration, AI platform enablement, automation, and agentic capabilities. It assesses emerging technologies and uses architecture reviews, capability assessments, portfolio analysis, and investment roadmaps to identify modernization, risk, lifecycle, cost, and alignment opportunities. The position leads strategy, implementation, governance, and maturity of enterprise integration platforms and patterns, including cloud ERP integration, APIs, event-driven architecture, data exchange, automation, and partner-managed delivery. It also establishes enablement and governance for AI platforms, automation services, and agentic capabilities, including controls, reusable components, integration standards, security, lifecycle management, oversight, compliance, and adoption pathways. The Senior Director establishes architecture practices and governance, leads architecture decisions across corporate programs and shared platforms, and designs technology initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, security, and business agility. The role builds partnerships with stakeholders and vendors, resolves architectural risks and obstacles, holds vendors accountable for delivery outcomes, and develops a team of architects and platform specialists through coaching, mentoring, and talent development. This is a hybrid role based in St. Louis, Missouri. In-office days are Tuesday through Thursday; work from home Mondays and Fridays.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience across enterprise architecture, integration, infrastructure, applications, cloud platforms, or shared technology services.
7+ years in leadership roles, with demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders across a complex enterprise.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise integration platform strategy, implementation, governance, partner delivery, and operating model maturity across cloud, SaaS, ERP, data, API, and automation patterns.
Expertise in cloud and on-premises application platforms, SaaS ecosystems, ERP and financial systems, enterprise integration technologies, API management, automation platforms, and AI-enabled services.
Strong delivery leadership skills, including applying agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery methods; managing architectural dependencies; guiding prioritization; communicating tradeoffs; and driving execution through internal teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.
Knowledge of common end-to-end business processes, including procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, hire to retire, supply chain planning and execution, manufacturing, maintenance, quality, inventory management, demand planning, procurement, logistics, warehousing, and trade promotion.
Ability to drive enterprise outcomes and build alignment across Corporate and Business Unit priorities while leading through ambiguity, competing demands, and organizational change.
Executive presence and credibility, with effective communication skills for senior leadership, functional executives, Business Unit technology leaders, business sponsors, vendors, and delivery teams.
Experience with data management, analytics platforms, enterprise data integration, and data governance practices that support reporting, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, decision support, and scalable platform design.
High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and adaptive leadership capability to lead teams and stakeholders through ambiguity, change, conflict, and competing enterprise priorities.

Nice To Haves

Experience establishing standards across hybrid enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic architecture direction, governance, and partnership for Post Holdings’ corporate and shared enterprise services.
Develop short- and long-term roadmaps for enterprise architecture, integration, AI platform enablement, automation, and agentic capabilities.
Guide application and technology portfolio rationalization, lifecycle management, modernization priorities, technical debt reduction, and measurable business value realization.
Assess emerging technologies and platform capabilities and translate them into investment recommendations, pilot opportunities, governance requirements, and adoption roadmaps.
Use gap analysis, capability assessments, architecture reviews, portfolio analysis, and IT investment roadmaps to identify risks, dependencies, modernization opportunities, cost optimization, and alignment needs.
Lead strategy, implementation, governance, and ongoing maturity of enterprise integration platforms and patterns, including cloud ERP integration, API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, data exchange, and automation.
Establish the architecture strategy and enablement model for AI platforms, automation services, and agentic capabilities, including governance, controls, reusable components, standards, security alignment, lifecycle management, oversight, and compliance.
Establish and mature architecture best practices, governance forums, reference architectures, standards, guardrails, metrics, decision frameworks, tooling, documentation expectations, and operating processes.
Lead architecture function and decision-making across corporate system programs, shared enterprise platforms, integrations, AI enablement, automation, and other cross-functional technology programs.
Design and lead technology initiatives for corporate and shared enterprise platforms, including infrastructure, applications, integrations, automation, and AI enablement.
Partner with sponsors, functional leaders, technical stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams to align program objectives, surface risks, remove obstacles, communicate tradeoffs, and resolve issues.
Influence corporate IT, Business Unit technology teams, functional leaders, vendors, and executives; shape direction, resolve ambiguity, build alignment, and mentor leaders and teams.
Manage integration, AI platform, automation, and other technology vendors to ensure requirements, standards, security expectations, delivery commitments, cost-effectiveness, and long-term objectives are met.
Hold vendors accountable for service delivery outcomes, including quality, resource effectiveness, architecture alignment, knowledge transfer, documentation, reliability, security, cost optimization, and sustainable internal capabilities.
Lead and develop architects and platform specialists through coaching, mentoring, performance management, talent development, and operating model maturity.