IT Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Department: Technology

Reports To: VP of Technology

Pay Range: $160,000 - $195,000 per year, dependent on experience

FLSA Status: Exempt

WHO WE ARE:

Bay State Milling Company is a family-owned leader in grain-based food ingredients, proudly serving the industry since 1899. For over 125 years, we’ve been on a mission to promote the growth of nutritious, sustainable, and accessible food choices. Our portfolio spans flours, grains, seeds, and innovative plant-based ingredients, all crafted to meet evolving consumer demands for healthfulness, great taste, and affordability.

Rooted in five generations of ownership, we combine deep milling expertise with forward-thinking innovation. From our flagship mill in Winona, Minnesota to facilities across North America, we partner with growers and customers to deliver quality and trust at every step. Guided by our core values—Integrity, Creativity, Collaboration, Caring, and Quality—we relentlessly pursue better for the food system and the communities we serve.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for developing and maintaining the organization's IT architecture framework to ensure alignment with business goals and strategic objectives. This role serves as a bridge between business and technology, guiding the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and sustainable systems across Bay State Milling. The Enterprise Architect collaborates with stakeholders across departments to assess current capabilities, identify gaps, and define future-state architectures that support company goals, operational efficiency, and digital transformation.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develops and enforces enterprise architecture standards, data architecture standards, EA and data governance frameworks, and system integration standards tailored to Bay State Milling’s technology stack and regulatory environment.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and governance models to guide technology decisions across IT and OT domains.
• Design and oversee integration of mill automation systems (e.g., PLCs, SCADA, MES) with enterprise platforms.
• Ensure secure and reliable data flow between plant floor systems and business applications to support traceability, quality, and performance analytics.
• Collaborate with business leaders to align ERP capabilities (e.g., inventory, production planning, financials) with operational workflows and strategic objectives.
• Support Technology leadership in the development of a multi-year technology roadmap that supports business growth, sustainability, and digital maturity.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure architecture supports robust protection of technology assets and enterprise data.
• Maintains modeling and naming standards, enforces data normalization, manages metadata, and documents source-to-target data mapping using industry-standard tools compliant with food industry regulations.
• Maintain architectural documentation including system maps, data flows, and integration patterns.
• Promote standardization and reuse of architectural components across sites and business units.
• Conduct business reviews, technical assessments, and evaluate current and potential applications to ensure compatibility with Bay State Milling’s production and quality requirements.
• Designs develop, and maintain the integration technology stack, including commercial platforms essential in areas such as milling operations, supply chain management, inventory, and compliance tracking.

MINIMUM EDUCATION & WORK REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Enterprise Architecture certification in TOGAF, Zachman, or similar required.
• Proven experience with cloud architecture and technologies including the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, information security, and project management principles and methodologies.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Strategic thinking and business acumen including supply chain dynamics, and financial principles.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven abilities leading cross-functional teams and mentoring technical staff.
• Ability to foster alignment across IT, operations, engineering, and business areas.
• Strong analytical skills to assess current-state architectures, identify gaps, and propose scalable solutions.,
• Comfort making decisions in ambiguous or rapidly evolving environments.
• Ability to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies in a pragmatic, business focused manner.
• Experience driving innovation in legacy heavy environments with a focus on modernization, security, and resilience.

Salary : $160,000 - $195,000