Senior Entreprise Architect ERP

Overview

Why you will love working here

At IATA, we represent over 350 airlines worldwide, striving to make aviation safer, smarter, more sustainable, and inclusive. Our values energize everything we do: ONE IATA (collaboration across teams), TRUSTED (we do the right thing), INNOVATIVE (we make tomorrow better), INCLUSIVE (we embrace diverse perspectives). We offer extensive learning opportunities, a strong focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, volunteering opportunities, flexible work options including remote and hybrid work, a generous work-from-abroad policy, and birthday leave.

We promote work-life balance with time off to support causes important to you.

Additional context:
This role is permanent and involves leading ERP (SAP) migration governance and architecture efforts.

Reporting to the Director Central Data Office and Architecture, and in collaboration with other stakeholders across IATA I&D and IATA Corporate Service teams, you will drive enterprise-level direction and governance of a multiyear ERP (SAP) migration program delivered in partnership with one or more System Integrators.

With a strong ERP domain background, you will ensure technology investments deliver coherent, scalable, and business-aligned outcomes. Day-to-day build activities will be led by System Integrators, while you ensure designs align with enterprise architecture standards, agreed roadmaps, and long-term business objectives.

• Serve as ERP Architecture Authority: provide clear architectural direction for the SAP migration program, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and guiding system integrators and internal teams.
• Translate Strategy into Architecture: engage senior stakeholders to convert business objectives into ERP target capabilities, principles, and an actionable architecture roadmap.
• Own and Govern ERP
  
  Roadmap:
  
  maintain alignment across processes, data, integrations, security, and infrastructure while providing assessment and recommendations on deployment options.
• Validate Solution Designs: review and approve SI-produced designs for compliance with SAP best practices, enterprise standards, data governance, and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure End-to-End Integrity: oversee integration across SAP modules and surrounding systems, preventing siloed or fragmented implementations.
• Lead Data Architecture & Migration: collaborate with Data Governance to define master data ownership, quality standards, and migration strategy, including cutover sequencing.

• 8–10+ years in Enterprise Architecture roles for large-scale transformation programs, including deep ERP migration expertise (preferably SAP ECC → S/4
  
  HANA) and advanced application of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Deep expertise in ERP-centric landscapes, including processes, data, and integration design.
• Proven ability to govern System Integrators, manage transition architectures, technical debt, and multi-release risks.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills to effectively support, guide, and collaborate with senior leaders and program sponsors.

Travel Required:

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