Director, Enterprise Architecture; IT

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a Director, Enterprise Architecture (IT) that will be the enterprise authority responsible for defining, governing, and reviewing architecture across infrastructure, cloud platforms, networking, security access, applications, and enterprise platforms (including Oracle EBusiness Suite). This role establishes the long‑term architectural direction for TGCS, ensuring that technology platforms are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with business strategy.

The position requires deep, hands‑on expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), combined with extensive experience in enterprise network architecture, Zero Trust security models, and complex ERP and application platforms. The Director owns architecture standards, reference designs, and formal design review processes, acting as the final architectural escalation point for cross‑domain decisions.

This role is explicitly focused on architecture, governance, and design authority and works closely with Infrastructure Operations, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Application teams to ensure all implementations conform to approved enterprise architecture standards.

• Serve as the enterprise authority for architecture across infrastructure, cloud, networking, applications, ERP, and platform services.
• Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and approved design patterns.
• Establish and govern formal architecture review and approval processes for all significant technology initiatives.
• Own and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with business strategy and long‑term modernization goals.
• Act as the final architectural escalation point for complex, cross‑domain design decisions.
• Ensure architectural consistency, resilience, security, and long‑term technical integrity across all enterprise platforms.

• Serve as the authoritative enterprise architect for OCI.
• Design and review OCI tenancy models, compartment strategies, IAM policies, and security zone implementations.
• Define enterprise standards for OCI networking, connectivity, and hybrid integration.
• Architect and review high‑availability, disaster recovery, and multi‑region OCI designs.
• Provide architectural oversight for OCI services including Exadata, OCVS, Compute, Storage (ZFS/Object), and hybrid cloud integrations.
• Establish and govern OCI automation and infrastructure‑as‑code standards using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines, Network, Connectivity & Zero Trust Architecture.
• Own enterprise network architecture standards and lead all network and connectivity design reviews.
• Architect hybrid and global connectivity across on‑premises environments, OCI, SaaS providers, and external partners.
• Define enterprise patterns for segmentation, routing, resiliency, performance, and availability.
• Define and govern Zero Trust architecture, including identity‑aware access, least‑privilege connectivity, and continuous verification.
• Architect and review ZTNA, SSE, and SASE based client access models, including integrations with Cloudflare, Zscaler, or equivalent edge security platforms.
• Establish standards for secure remote user, branch, and third‑party access using edge‑based policy enforcement.

• Serve as the enterprise architecture authority for application platforms, middleware, and ERP systems.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for Oracle E Business Suite (EBS) environments, including scalability, security, integrations, and lifecycle management.
• Define enterprise standards for application hosting models, platform services, and integration patterns.
• Guide EBS modernization and coexistence strategies, including integration with OCI and other enterprise platforms.
• Ensure application and ERP architectures align with approved enterprise network, cloud, and security standards.

• Embed security‑by‑design principles across infrastructure, network, application, ERP, and cloud architectures.
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