Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture & ERP

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide.

ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.

Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture & ERP Applications in the IT will…

ZS is on a path to becoming a $5B company with more than 30,000 employees, driving rapid growth, increasing global complexity, and expanding business models across multiple industries. As the firm scales, ZS is modernizing and evolving its core enterprise systems to ensure they remain cohesive, resilient, and fit for long‑term growth. We are seeking a Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture & ERP Transformation to provide senior-level leadership, architectural direction, and decision‑making authority across the firm’s enterprise technology landscape.

This role is designed for a seasoned technology and business transformation leader who has personally led multiple large-scale enterprise transformations
, understands how modern technology ecosystems function end-to-end, and can confidently guide senior stakeholders toward the right long-term architectural outcomes—balancing collaboration, expertise, and decisiveness.

This role represents a step-change in how ZS governs, designs, and evolves its enterprise systems. The Senior Director will shape the firm’s technology foundation for the next decade—ensuring systems scale with growth, support new business models, and enable leaders to focus on strategy rather than system constraints.

The Senior Director’s chief accountability will be the architectural vision and enterprise systems strategy
, establishing enterprise architecture principles across applications, data, integration, and infrastructure to ensure Finance, HR, Mar Comm, Legal, IT, CRM technologies and their associated data evolve in a cohesive, scalable, and well‑governed manner.

• Translate business strategy into executable enterprise architecture
• Serve as the firm’s authoritative voice on technology, architecture and cross-platform design
• Ensure alignment across functions that historically owned their own systems
• Transformations safeguard current operations while enabling future scale

Enterprise Architecture & Technology Leadership

• Define and take accountability for the enterprise systems architecture
  , including ERP platforms and adjacent ecosystems (HR, Finance, Mar Comm, CRM, Data Management, Integrations).
• Establish clear architectural principles and decision frameworks that guide platform selection, integration patterns, and system evolution.

• Rationalize the enterprise application portfolio by reducing redundancy, legacy sprawl, and accumulated technical debt, while preserving essential business functionality and operational continuity.

• Serve as the determining agent on enterprise architecture tradeoffs, informed by stakeholder input and expert analysis.

• Act as a senior partner to the enterprise leaders.
• Guide stakeholders through complex decisions by combining deep expertise, strong executive presence, and pragmatic diplomacy.
• Balance…