PRINCIPAL, IT TRANSFORMATION AND INTEGRATION
Company Overview:
Gulf Copper LLC, a subsidiary of Davie Defense, is a leading Marine Repair and New Construction company based in Galveston, Texas with more than 75 years of shop repair and fabrication experience on the Gulf Coast. Gulf Copper's primary business is the repair and refurbishment of marine vessels, ship construction, and fabrication for transportation, government, and oil and gas markets.
Benefits:
401 (k)
Group Health & Dental Plan
Short-&-Long-Term Disability Insurance
Life & Voluntary Life Insurance
Holiday & Vacation Pay
Employee Assistance Program
Position Summary:
The Principal ERP Architect is a senior, hands-on technology role responsible for the architecture, integration, migration, and technical direction of the organization’s enterprise resource planning environment, with primary focus on Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP.
The role serves as the technical authority for ERP architecture and works closely with IT Business Systems, business process owners and liaisons, Information Security, infrastructure teams, and implementation partners to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable solutions.
This position combines architecture with execution. The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in solution design, integrations, data migration, technical troubleshooting, implementation, and continuous improvement rather than functioning solely as an advisory architect.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
This position is responsible for the following: Other duties may be assigned.
ERP Architecture & Technical Leadership:
Own the overall technical architecture and roadmap for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and its surrounding ecosystem.
Define architecture standards and design patterns for ERP integrations, interfaces, extensions, data, reporting, identity, and security.
Evaluate proposed Oracle configurations, extensions, customizations, and third-party solutions for architectural fit and long-term supportability.
Ensure ERP solutions align with broader enterprise IT architecture, cybersecurity, integration, and data strategies.
Identify opportunities to simplify the ERP landscape, reduce technical debt, and eliminate unnecessary customizations or fragmented solutions.
Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex ERP and integration issues.
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP:
Provide technical architecture leadership across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP modules and capabilities.
Guide the design of integrations between Oracle Fusion and financial, supply chain, operations, project, HR, quality, and other enterprise systems.
Provide technical oversight for Oracle Fusion APIs, interfaces, extensions, reporting, security, and data exchanges.
Support implementation, migration, testing, cutover, stabilization, upgrades, and continuous improvement activities.
Work closely with Oracle and implementation partners to review technical designs and resolve complex issues.
Help ensure that ERP implementation decisions remain scalable and supportable as the organization grows.
Integration & Data Architecture:
Design and govern integrations using APIs, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), middleware, file-based integrations, and other appropriate integration patterns.
Establish standards for interfaces, data flows, error handling, monitoring, and system dependencies.
Develop and maintain architecture documentation, integration diagrams, and system dependency maps.
Support master data and data architecture decisions in partnership with Business Systems and business process owners.
Ensure ERP integrations are resilient, maintainable, appropriately secured, and operationally supportable.
Business Systems Partnership:
Partner with IT Business Systems resources to translate functional requirements into effective technical solutions.
Work with designated business liaisons and process owners across Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Projects, Quality, HR, and…