Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Hunter Fan Company is seeking a hands-on Enterprise Architect to help establish, document, and govern the technology standards that support our IT organization. This role will focus primarily on applications and data architecture, with additional responsibility for reliability, resiliency, integration patterns, automation opportunities, and alignment with security best practices.
This is not a people management role. The ideal candidate is a practical architect who can work directly with IT teams to understand the current state, document systems and integrations, define standards, identify gaps, and help guide future-state decisions. This person will play a key role in improving consistency, reducing technical debt, supporting change management discipline, and creating a more scalable architecture foundation across the enterprise.
This role will also support process improvement and automation efforts by leveraging process mining insights and robotic process automation opportunities to improve standardization, reduce manual work, and strengthen operational efficiency across IT-supported processes.
The Enterprise Architect will report into IT and will work closely across the IT organization, including application, infrastructure, data, service management, security, integration, and automation teams.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Standards & Governance

Define, document, and maintain enterprise architecture standards across applications, data, integrations, automation, and supporting technology platforms.

Establish practical governance processes to ensure architecture standards are consistently applied across projects, enhancements, system changes, automation efforts, and technology decisions.

Partner with IT leadership to align architecture standards with ITIL-based processes, including change management, incident management, problem management, release management, and configuration management.

Review proposed system, integration, data, and automation changes for alignment with established standards.

Help create lightweight but effective architecture review processes that improve quality without slowing delivery unnecessarily.

Current-State Documentation

Lead the documentation of Hunter Fan's current-state application and data architecture.

Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as application inventories, system context diagrams, integration maps, data flow diagrams, interface documentation, process documentation, ownership models, and technology standards.

Identify undocumented systems, integrations, manual processes, automation dependencies, and technical risks.

Partner with IT teams to build a shared understanding of how systems, data, integrations, workflows, and automations interact across the environment.

Ensure documentation remains accurate, accessible, and useful for IT operations, support, planning, onboarding, automation governance, and change management.

Application & Data Architecture

Evaluate application architecture across enterprise systems and recommend improvements to standardization, maintainability, scalability, and supportability.

Support data architecture standards, including data ownership, system-of-record alignment, integration patterns, reporting dependencies, and data movement between systems.

Partner with data, application, and integration teams to reduce duplication, improve consistency, and strengthen data reliability.

Help define best practices for application lifecycle management, system documentation, data flows, interface design, and platform usage.

Process Improvement & Automation

Use process mining tools, methods, and insights to document current-state workflows, identify bottlenecks, analyze process performance, and uncover opportunities for standardization and improvement.

Partner with IT teams to identify opportunities for robotic process automation and other workflow automation solutions.

Help define standards and governance for automation design, documentation, ownership, support, monitoring, and change management.

Ensure automation opportunities align with enterprise architecture standards, data governance expectations, security requirements, and ITIL-based change management practices.

Support documentation of automation dependencies, data inputs and outputs, exception handling, business rules, and operational support models.

Evaluate automation opportunities for scalability, maintainability, risk, and long-term fit within the broader technology architecture.

Reliability, Resiliency & Risk Reduction

Assess critical applications, integrations, data flows, workflows, and automations for reliability, resiliency, supportability, and operational risk.

Help identify single points of failure, undocumented dependencies, manual workarounds, fragile integration patterns, and automation risks.

Recommend architecture improvements that reduce operational risk and improve system stability.

Partner with IT operations and support teams to improve readiness for incidents, changes,…