IT Solutions Architect Network and Systems Administration
Direct Hire Sep 9, 2026
Job Title: IT Solutions Architect Location: Addison, TX — Hybrid, 3 days onsite
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Job Summary:
Our client is a growing, publicly traded industrial organization with a global presence and a diverse portfolio of operating businesses. The company provides engineered solutions and services to customers across multiple industrial markets and is continuing to expand through organic growth, acquisitions, and technology modernization. The organization is investing significantly in its enterprise technology landscape and is seeking an experienced IT Solutions Architect to help drive the quality, consistency, and scalability of its ERP environment. The ERP Solution Architect will be responsible for the overall quality, integrity, and timely delivery of ERP solutions across the enterprise. Reporting to the Director of IT ERP, this individual will provide solution leadership across a portfolio of ERP projects, with a primary focus on ensuring solutions are scalable, supportable, well-integrated, and aligned with enterprise architecture and business objectives. The role will work closely with ERP Functional Leads, business stakeholders, technical teams, and external implementation partners. The successful candidate will provide architecture oversight, design guidance, solution review, and delivery support throughout the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate combines deep ERP implementation experience, strong Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O) expertise, broad business-process knowledge, and sound delivery judgment. This person should be able to understand the end-to-end solution, identify risks early, challenge ineffective design decisions, resolve complex cross-functional issues, and hold implementation partners accountable for delivering high-quality solutions. A key responsibility will be the continued development and refinement of the organization's D365 template, ensuring that process designs, configuration decisions, controls, integrations, data standards, testing assets, and deployment practices are reusable across projects, locations, and future implementations. Key Responsibilities Solution Architecture & Design Governance
Own the overall quality and integrity of ERP solution designs across assigned projects and initiatives.
Provide architecture guidance to ERP Functional Leads, technical teams, business stakeholders, and implementation partners.
Review and validate proposed solutions to ensure they are scalable, supportable, integrated, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Establish and maintain practical design principles, solution standards, and governance expectations for ERP projects.
Evaluate solution options and recommend approaches that balance business value, operational fit, complexity, risk, cost, and long-term maintainability.
Ensure project-level design decisions support the broader ERP strategy and do not create unnecessary technical debt or downstream process issues.
D365 Template Development & Refinement
Lead the ongoing development and refinement of the organization's D365 template, including standard processes, configuration principles, integration patterns, controls, reporting expectations, and reusable project deliverables.
Incorporate lessons learned from implementations, enhancements, acquisitions, and support activities into the template where appropriate.
Partner with Functional Leads to ensure project solutions align with established standards and that deviations are reviewed, justified, documented, and approved.
Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and strengthen the template so future projects can be delivered consistently and efficiently.
Maintain alignment between the ERP template, business-process design, data standards, testing approach, deployment practices, and long-term support model.
Help distinguish between core template functionality, local variations, approved exceptions, and future roadmap items.
Functional Lead Support & Delivery Oversight
Support project teams with solution design, requirements interpretation, integration impacts, and cross-functional decisions.
Help project teams prepare for and navigate complex business and design discussions.
Review functional deliverables, including process designs, functional specifications, requirements documentation, solution options, test scope, and deployment-readiness materials.
Identify gaps in solution quality, project delivery, business readiness, or implementation-partner performance and drive timely resolution.
Provide coaching and practical guidance to improve consistency and quality across the ERP team.
Ensure project teams maintain clear traceability from business requirements through design, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
Program Solution Quality & Delivery
Monitor solution quality across ERP projects and ensure critical design decisions are made at the appropriate level and within the required timeframe.
Identify cross-project dependencies, design conflicts, risks, and sequencing issues that could affect delivery quality or timelines.
Drive resolution of complex design issues spanning multiple functions, locations, projects, or business processes.
Support project leadership with clear assessments of solution readiness, risks, dependencies, and outstanding decisions.
Contribute to go/no-go recommendations for deployments, releases, and major solution milestones.
Ensure ERP solutions support stable operations, long-term maintainability, and future scalability.
Business & Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to understand operational requirements, process impacts, and business priorities.
Facilitate complex solution discussions where business requirements, standard processes, system capabilities, and stakeholder expectations must be aligned.
Challenge assumptions and customization requests when they introduce unnecessary complexity or reduce long-term supportability.
Clearly communicate solution impacts, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
Promote business-process standardization and simplification across operating companies where appropriate.
Technology, Integration & Roadmap Support
Provide input into ERP roadmap planning, platform optimization, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
Evaluate ERP capabilities, ISV solutions, integrations, and related technologies that may provide business value.
Partner with technical teams to ensure integrations, data flows, reporting, security, and controls are incorporated into solution designs.
Support acquisition integrations, rollout planning, and harmonization of ERP processes across business units.
Promote reuse, simplification, standardization, and sustainable architecture decisions across the ERP landscape.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related field; equivalent education and experience will also be considered.
10+ years of experience in ERP implementation, enhancement, and/or business applications.
7+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations or a comparable enterprise ERP platform, with strong preference for D365 F&O.
Demonstrated experience serving as a Solution Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, Solution Lead, Architecture Lead, or similar role on ERP implementation projects.
Experience leading solution design across multiple ERP functional areas, such as Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Inventory, Manufacturing, Planning, Warehouse Management, Project Operations, or related business processes.
Experience guiding Functional Leads, business analysts, consultants, or project team members without direct people-management responsibility.
Experience reviewing and governing solution designs developed by internal teams and external implementation partners.
Strong understanding of the relationships between business processes, systems, data, controls, reporting, integrations, and operational support.
Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
Ability to communicate complex solution concepts clearly to executive, business, functional, and technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in industrial manufacturing, engineered-to-order, make-to-stock, project manufacturing, or other complex manufacturing environments.
Experience supporting multi-site or global ERP deployments.
Experience with ERP integrations, middleware, data migration, master-data governance, reporting, and analytics.
Experience with Azure DevOps and Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.
Experience establishing or participating in architecture governance, design authority, or solution-review forums.
Experience developing or maintaining ERP templates, global process models, or reusable deployment assets.
Experience evaluating ISV solutions, implementation partners, and third-party technology providers.
Certifications One or more of the following certifications are preferred:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solution Architect Expert
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Manufacturing certifications
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or related Microsoft cloud certifications
TOGAF, Agile, Lean, or Project Management certifications are beneficial but not required
Travel Requirements Travel will vary based on project requirements but is expected to be less than one week per month in a typical month. The successful candidate must be willing and able to travel domestically and internationally as required.