Sr Manager - Enterprise Architect

When you work for Ameri Gas, you become a part of something BIG! Founded in 1959, Ameri Gas is the nation’s premier propane company, serving over 1.5 million residential, commercial, industrial and motor fuel propane customers. Together, over 6,500 dedicated professionals will deliver over 1 billion gallons of propane from 1,800+ distribution points across the United States.

Job Summary

Lead the strategic evolution of our enterprise architecture, serving as the bridge between business strategy and technology execution across our propane distribution operations. Shape the future of our digital landscape by orchestrating the seamless integration of our core technology ecosystem while driving architectural innovation that enables business agility, operational excellence, and exceptional customer experiences.

Extensive experience with our core technologies including:

• ERP: SAP, Middleware
• Amazon Bedrock AI
• CRM:
  Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Procurement:
  Ariba
• Supply Chain:
  Right Angle
• Logistics optimization:
  Ortec
• IoT: tank monitoring, predictive delivery, and fleet telematics.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap in alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Lead architectural governance and oversight for all technology initiatives across the organization.
• Drive innovation through emerging technologies while ensuring alignment with business objective.
• Develop a comprehensive enterprise architecture vision that supports both short-term needs and long-term strategic growth.
• Collaborate with executive & IT leadership to translate business strategy into architectural vision and execution plans.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to technology teams across the organization.
• Design and evaluate enterprise-wide architecture solutions spanning on-premises and cloud environments (Azure and AWS).
• Manage integration between critical business systems including SAP, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Ariba, Right Angle, and Ortec.
• Oversee middleware strategy and implementation, with particular focus on SAP BTP and Process Integration/Process Orchestration (PI/PO), and cloud.
• Develop an enterprise AI strategy that drives measurable business outcomes, including enhanced customer experience, operational efficiency gains, and new revenue opportunities through predictive analytics and intelligent automation.
• Architect AI solutions for customer-facing, customer service, field operations, distribution, IT, and other business opportunity areas. Include comprehensive strategy aligned to business objectives, evaluation & selection of AI platforms and tools to complement existing enterprise systems.
• Design scalable data architecture to support analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.
• Establish standards, patterns, and best practices for system integration, data management, and application development.
• Ensure architecture decisions support business continuity, disaster recovery, and security requirements specific to the propane distribution industry.
• Run a reoccurring Architecture Review Board meeting that evaluates new implementation proposals and helps build consensus across multiple technology stakeholders

• Partner with business stakeholders to model and optimize key propane distribution processes.
• Develop architectural solutions that accommodate seasonal scaling requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through architectural innovations.
• Ensure architecture supports key business metrics including customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and profitability.
• Design customer-facing architectures that enhance self-service while maintaining seamless integration with back-office systems.
• Ensure systems support variable pricing models, hedging strategies, and margin optimization.
• Lead cloud strategy and migration initiatives between on-premises systems and cloud platforms (Azure and AWS).
• Design hybrid architecture solutions that optimize system performance, reliability, and cost- effectiveness along with achieving business strategic and operational goals.
• Develop and execute strategies for modernizing,…