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General information

Location:
Stamford - Connecticut, USA
Additional Location:
Novi - Michigan, USA - Cabot Drive
Job Family:
Digital
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Career Level:
M5
Job ID:
R-51852-2026

Description & Requirements

About the Role

This role serves as the enterprise architectural authority for all digital platforms across HARMAN’s global automotive business and common Enterprise platforms. The Enterprise Architect owns target-state architecture and architectural standards, governs platform decisions, and ensures scalable, secure, and compliant execution across regions and programs. The role operates with enterprise-wide impact, influences senior leadership decisions, and shapes long-term technology investment strategy. Drive architectural alignment for multi-year digital transformation initiatives, ensuring adoption, simplification, and measurable business outcomes. Partner with business and transformation leaders to ensure architecture enables operating model change, not just system modernization.

What You Will Do

  • Own enterprise-wide SAP S/4HANA architecture, including global template, localization strategy, and clean-core standards.
  • Serve as final architectural authority for SAP S/4 platform decisions, rollouts, upgrades, and optimization initiatives.
  • Define architectural guardrails balancing standardization, regulatory needs, and business flexibility.
  • Own architecture for SAP satellite platforms; Ensure scalable, compliant architectures for statutory reporting, e-invoicing, and country-specific mandates.
  • Govern integration with finance processes, master data, security, and audit controls.
  • Own enterprise integration principles and standards across SAP S/4, Salesforce, PLM, ALM  platforms, Legal platforms and Workday.
  • Govern API-led, event-driven, and middleware-based integration patterns, including lifecycle, security, and resilience.
  • Own architectural standards for SAP HANA and enterprise database platforms, including performance, HA/DR, and lifecycle management.
  • Influence cloud, hybrid, and SAP-certified infrastructure architectures to ensure scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
  • Own architectural evaluation criteria for enterprise tools including SaaS adoption.
  • Discern and flag tools that cannot scale with global growth, regulatory complexity, or integration needs.
  • Prevent tool sprawl through clear architectural guardrails and decision frameworks.
  • Promote a platform and product-oriented mindset, ensuring enterprise systems evolve through roadmaps, lifecycle ownership, and continuous improvement
  • Define enterprise reference architectures for Agentic AI integration with core platforms.
  • Establish guardrails for security, authorization, auditability, and compliance.
  • Enable AI-driven augmentation without compromising core system integrity.
  • Ensure enterprise architecture is embedded into Digital solution delivery lifecycle from demand intake through operate.
  • Chair enterprise architecture governance forums.
  • Influence senior leadership decisions on platform strategy and investment.
  • Mentor senior architects and act as a trusted advisor across IT and business leadership.
  • Provide architectural leadership for growth initiatives, including acquisitions, divestitures, and rapid regional expansion.

What You Bring

  • 15+ years in enterprise architecture, with deep SAP ERP, including strong S/4HANA knowledge.
  • Proven ownership of enterprise-scale platform architecture in global, regulated environments.
  • Strong expertise in integration, databases, and infrastructure.

Nice to Have

  • Tier 1 Automotive or large manufacturing enterprise experience
  • SAP BTP and clean-core extensibility experience
  • Exposure to enterprise AI / Agentic AI architectures
  • TOGAF® (Certified or equivalent enterprise architecture framework experience)
  • Zachman Framework exposure
  • SAP S/4HANA Architecture or Solution Architect certifications
  • SAP BTP Architecture or Extension Suite certifications
  • Cloud Architecture certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP – Professional / Architect level)
  • Infrastructure or platform architecture certifications relevant to SAP-certified environments

What Makes You Eligible

  • Willingness to travel up to 20% globally.
  • Ability to work with stakeholders across Americas, Europe, and Asia.
  • Able to work from an office located in Stamford, CT, or Novi, MI
  • Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
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Pay Transparency
$ 210,000 - $ 308,000

Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission.

Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled.

Benefits
HARMAN is interested in the health and wellbeing of you and your family and offers a range of benefits designed to support your needs for holistic wellbeing. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN, and may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, and paid bonding and care giver leave. Employees may also be eligible to participate in comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short and long term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

You Belong Here 
HARMAN is committed to making every employee feel welcomed, valued, and empowered. No matter what role you play, we encourage you to share your ideas, voice your distinct perspective, and bring your whole self with you – all within a support-minded culture that celebrates what makes each of us unique. We also recognize that learning is a lifelong pursuit and want you to flourish. We proudly offer added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education, further empowering you to live the career you want.  
 
About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology 
Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.  

Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other. 

If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!  

Important Notice: Recruitment Scams
Please be aware that HARMAN recruiters will always communicate with you from an '@harman.com', ‘@careers.harman.com’ or ‘harmanglobal.avature.net’ email address. We will never ask for payments, banking, credit card, personal financial information or access to your LinkedIn/email account during the screening, interview, or recruitment process. If you are asked for such information or receive communication from an email address not ending in one of the above email domains about a job with HARMAN, please cease communication immediately and report the incident to us through: harmancareers@harman.com.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. HARMAN strives to hire the best qualified candidates and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse marketplaces and communities of our global colleagues and customers.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. HARMAN attracts, hires, and develops employees based on merit, qualifications and job-related performance.(www.harman.com)