Vice President Enterprise Architect

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Company Overview

With $5 billion in revenue and 3,500+ employees in the U.S. and Mexico, TBC Corporation is a leader in the mobility industry and one of North America’s largest marketers of automotive replacement tires through wholesale and franchise operations. TBC serves wholesale customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico through TBC Brands, NTW, TBC International, and TBC de Mexico. Additionally, TBC responds to the needs of consumers in search of total car care at more than 465 franchised tire and automotive service centers under Big O Tires®. TBC is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. TBC has 20 proprietary brands of tires specializing in passenger, commercial, farm and specialty tires. In 2005, TBC Corp. was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA). SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. In 2018 Michelin, the largest tire manufacturer in Europe, invested in the company which is now a 50:50, privately held joint venture between Sumitomo and Michelin.

Our values are the foundation of our work, how we interact with each other, and the strategies we employ to fulfill our purpose. These are the practices we use every day – in everything we do:

• Integrity - We act honestly because nothing is more important than our reputation.

• Teamwork - We are better together.
• People-Focused - We put people first – our Associates, customers, franchisees, and partners – and cultivate a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive culture, top to bottom, inside and out.
• Accountability - We own our actions and decisions; we do what we say we are going to do.
• Leave Everything Better - We innovate to improve everything we touch, and we take actions now to protect the future.

Description

TBC Corporation is seeking a forward-thinking and hands-on Vice President, Enterprise Architecture to lead the modernization of our enterprise technology platforms. This executive role ensures that the EA function continuously evolves with the changing business and technology landscape, guides modernization of the technology portfolio and helps connect IT investment decisions to desired business outcomes for revenue growth, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.  This role will drive the transformation of legacy systems into a cohesive, cloud-native ecosystem that supports scalability, agility, and data-driven decision-making. The ideal candidate will blend strategic architectural leadership with hands-on engineering expertise to design and implement modern solutions across core business functions.  As a “player-coach,” this individual will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, foster a culture of innovation, learning, coaching and mentoring, contribute to code when needed, and ensure architectural alignment with business goals.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Architecture vision and strategy that is aligned with TBC objectives.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives, including the migration from SAP ECC to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and legacy applications and websites to cloud-native applications on Google Cloud.
• Architect scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across all enterprise applications while balancing competing priorities such as cost, performance, and usability.
• Establish an architecture framework and best practices, along with overseeing the creation of a repository for requirements, architecture design documents, artifacts, and reference materials
• Design and guide the implementation of microservices-based architectures and event-driven systems.
• Act as a “player-coach” by contributing to codebases (primarily in Python and Java) along with leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Build proof-of-concepts and reference implementations for cloud-native services and data pipelines.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Oversee integration strategies between critical applications such as (but not limited to) SAP, Oracle, Google Cloud, MS Fabric, Power BI, and Salesforce.
• Ensure data consistency, governance, and real-time availability across platforms.
• Ensure all solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, and regulatory requirements while collaborating with the security team to embed security into architecture and development processes.
• Guide the adoption of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, platform-as-a-service, and observability tools for modern development workflows.
• Turn business strategy into systems design by developing an architecture framework that enables adaptability, scalability, availability, and re-use.

Continued Responsibilities

• Mentor a technical team responsible for the creation, implementation and maintenance of architectural strategies.
• Direct the development and documentation of the strategy linking TBC’s application, data, solution, digital and technical architectures.
• Maintain a full understanding of all TBC’s technology implementations and integration with external service providers.
• Champion architectural principles across teams to ensure consistency and scalability and provide leadership in addressing the gap between enterprise architecture strategy and the IT organization’s readiness to adopt.
• Establish and chair an architecture governance board responsible for ensuring effective and efficient use of IT resources and assets, and architecture and portfolio decisions that enable the long-term business strategy.

Added Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies for strategic fit and potential disruption while helping drive solutions that increase business value.

• Assess the current technology landscape and identify gaps or inefficiencies.
• Drive organizational agility by enabling rapid adaptation to changing business needs.
• Improve operational efficiency through streamlined systems and processes.
• Reduce integration costs and risks by promoting interoperability and reuse.
• Enable faster decision-making with clear architecture insights and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 15 years of progressively responsible IT experience and leadership roles, including strategy, integration management, and application development.
• 10 years as an enterprise architecture leader, developing architecture strategy and roadmaps, and leading a team of architects.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and enterprise architecture and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, such as generative AI and its applications.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java, ReactJS, Next.JS and modern software engineering practices.
• Proven experience leading a successful technology modernization effort or change initiative.
• Experience migrating ERP systems to the Cloud (SAP ECC to Oracle Fusion preferred), data platforms (MS Fabric, Power BI), and CRM (Salesforce).
• Familiarity with EA tools, graphical modeling approaches, and repository management.
• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills with a practical approach to problem solving and decision making.
• Excellent written, verbal communications and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Google Cloud and TOGAF architecture certifications are preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish/English is a plus.

Benefits

• Market competitive compensation
• 401(k) and Roth with company match. Immediate 100% vesting
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Company paid short term disability and employer subsidized long term disability
• Company paid life insurance
• Discounted tire purchasing
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Generous paid vacation and paid time off
• Customizable voluntary benefits
• and More!!!

Mission Critical Competencies

TBC seeks team members who excel in demonstrating our critical competencies to drive organizational capability. In this spirit we view the following as mission critical for this role:

• Strategic Mindset: seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Change Management: effective Sponsorship, Change Agent and influencing skills. Adaptive, agile, flexible, open minded. Proven ability to build cross-functional commitment, lead, simplify and scale complex dynamic organizations through transformational change.