IT Director Enterprise System Architect

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 Dashiells SVP Transformation.

Employee may be called upon to perform any or all of the following functions:

• 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 Dashiells standards.
• Maintain technical documentation runbooks environment/licensing records and knowledge transfer materials.
• Perform special projects and complete other duties as assigned or requested.

Set the Technical Architecture Strategy & Roadmap

• Define the target-state technical architecture across systems environments integration and data and translate it into a practical sequenced roadmap of technical work.
• Establish and maintain technical standards patterns and reference designs (integration environments security data) that platforms and implementation partners must follow.
• Keep the technical roadmap aligned with the transformation roadmap flagging dependencies sequencing and technical risks so decisions are made with clear trade-offs.
• Maintain a forward view of technical debt customization and platform evolution (upgrades releases end-of-life) and plan the work needed to stay current and maintainable.

Stand Up Environments & Manage Licensing

• Provision and configure environments (dev QA UAT staging production) for enterprise platforms with defined promotion paths configuration control and refresh/sandbox management.
• Own the licensing lifecycle across platforms sizing allocation entitlement management and compliance/true-up tracking in coordination with vendors and procurement.
• Maintain accurate environment configuration and licensing records so the program always has a clear view of what is deployed and where.

Build Integration & Middleware Connections

• Implement the integration and middleware connections between platforms such as InEight IFS Salesforce and Oracle Fusion including API management message/event flows and batch interfaces.
• Drive standardization and reuse of integration components; minimize point-to-point complexity and custom code and maintain a technical exception register escalating risk where complexity grows.
• Work hands-on with implementation partners to ensure integrations are built tested and operating reliably.

Set Up & Run the Testing Toolchain

• Stand up and administer test management and automation tooling (e.g. HP ALM / Micro Focus ALM Octane Tricentis Tosca/qTest or equivalent) and connect it to defect tracking and environments.
• Configure dedicated test environments and manage test data so system integration regression performance and UAT cycles can run reliably.
• Support cutover go-live readiness and early post-go-live stabilization from a systems and testing standpoint.
• Implement security compliance and data-protection controls across environments including identity and access management audit disaster recovery and data retention.

Connect & Enable Reporting on Databricks

• Set up and connect Databricks to enterprise source systems building and maintaining the ingestion and data pipelines needed for reporting.
• Establish the data foundation that enables standard reporting and dashboards for project performance margin cash risk and resource utilization.
• Promote integration and data consistency across systems supporting planning engineering procurement construction finance HR and HSE.
• Ensure the underlying data and integration environment is ready and reliable so analytics workflow automation and AI-driven insights can be built on top of it.

Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Software Engineering or a related discipline. Masters degree is a plus but not required.

Industry Experience

• 8years 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).

Technical & Integration Skills

• 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.

Digital Platform & Market Acumen

• 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.

Leadership & Collaboration

• 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.

• Ability to sit for extended periods during computer-based work.
• Ability to stand and walk intermittently throughout the workday.
• Occasional lifting of up to 20 pounds.
• Occasional travel to other offices or meeting locations.

Environmental Conditions

• Primarily climate-controlled office environment.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions as defined per Company policy.

Dashiell is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race religion color sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other protected status under applicable law.

Dashiell offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Benefits include company-paid life insurance accidental death and dismemberment insurance long-term disability insurance and an employee assistance program. Additional benefit offerings include 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 and a 401(k) plan with immediate vesting among others.

Candidates must be at least 18 years of age and legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without current or future visa sponsorship. Third-party recruiters and agencies please do not contact us regarding this position.