18 days ago
Paris, FranceStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Sonepar’s target enterprise application architecture, principles, standards, reference models, and technology roadmaps.
- Modernize, simplify, and rationalize the global application portfolio across ERP, PIM, OMS, CPQ, WMS, TMS, CRM, pricing, eCommerce, digital workplace, AI, and related platforms.
- Define integration and interoperability principles in collaboration with Integration and Data Architecture teams.
- Provide architectural leadership for major business transformation programs, strategic initiatives, application harmonization, and M&A integration activities.
- Evaluate technologies and solutions through RFPs, vendor evaluations, and technology-selection processes.
- Establish architecture governance, review solution architectures, and promote standardization and reuse across countries, platforms, and business functions.
- Ensure architecture decisions address security, compliance, data governance, and operational requirements, and define architecture KPIs and technical health indicators.
- Partner with business and IT leaders, influence senior stakeholders, mentor Solution Architects, and contribute to Sonepar’s enterprise architecture community.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or large-scale Application Architecture.
- Experience in complex enterprise environments and global transformation programs.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise applications and end-to-end business processes.
- Experience with ERP, supply chain, commerce, pricing, product information management, integration, and data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of API-led, event-driven, cloud-native, SaaS, and microservices architecture patterns.
- Experience with integration platforms, middleware technologies, application lifecycle management, and technology standardization.
- Ability to navigate multinational and matrix organizations and influence senior stakeholders.
- Fluency in English.
- Preferred experience in B2B distribution, retail, industrial, manufacturing, or supply chain-intensive industries.
- Preferred familiarity with modern commerce and omnichannel ecosystems, AI-enabled business capabilities, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Preferred knowledge of TOGAF and major enterprise platforms such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Adobe, or ServiceNow.
Benefits
- Hybrid work mode with 3 days per week in Paris 8ème after the probation period.
- 75% reimbursement of the monthly or annual transport pass.
- Swile Ticket restaurant card.
- Gym reserved for company employees and available free of charge.
- Sustainable mobility package.
- Health insurance and welfare benefits.
- Employee Savings Plan and Profit Sharing Bonus.
- International, multidisciplinary, and collaborative work environment.
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About Sonepar
Sonepar is a family-owned B2B distributor of electrical equipment and related solutions for contractors, industrial facilities, and the building and energy sectors. It sells wire and cable, lighting, automation components, safety gear, tools, and services through a nationwide network of local brands and branches, as well as digital channels. Founded in 1969, the company operates globally across roughly 40 countries and in the U.S. is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.