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CECO Environmental is a global leader in providing sustainable solutions for industrial air, water, and energy transition. Since 1966, we’ve been addressing the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our mission is to protect people, the environment, and industrial equipment, making a tangible impact across industries like renewable energy, semiconductor manufacturing, power generation, and water treatment. As a purpose-driven company, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity, ensuring that every project we undertake creates lasting positive change. At CECO, you’ll be part of a growing, dynamic team committed to a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable future.

We are proud to share that CECO was named one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Companies for 2025 and that Forbes recognized CECO as one of America’s Most Successful SmallCap Companies for 2026, marking our third consecutive year on the Forbes list.  CECO Environmental is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ under the ticker CECO, reflecting our strong growth, financial performance, and commitment to delivering value to shareholders.

As part of the CECO corporate team, you will play a key role in supporting the continued growth and success of our global family of brands. Whether working in finance, HR, IT, accounting, marketing, or another corporate function, your expertise will help drive efficiency and innovation across our organization. By joining CECO, you’ll be part of a company committed to protecting the environment and enhancing industrial operations, all while fostering a collaborative and purpose-driven work environment.

The ERP Solution Architect is responsible for the overall quality, integrity, and timely delivery of CECO's ERP solutions across the enterprise. The role reports to the Director, IT ERP and provides solution leadership across CECO's ERP project portfolio, with primary focus on ensuring that projects are delivered using scalable, supportable, and well-integrated ERP designs.

The ERP Solution Architect supports a team of ERP Functional Leads, including both senior and junior resources, by providing design guidance, architecture oversight, and solution review throughout the project lifecycle.

The successful candidate will combine deep ERP implementation experience, strong D365 F&O knowledge, broad business process understanding, and practical delivery judgment. The role requires someone who can see the end-to-end solution, identify risks early, challenge poor design decisions, guide project teams through complex issues, and hold implementation partners accountable for delivering high-quality solutions aligned with CECO standards.

A key part of the role will be to continue building and refining CECO's D365 template, ensuring that process designs, configuration decisions, controls, integrations, data standards, testing assets, and deployment practices are reusable across projects, sites, and future rollouts.

Your Responsibilities Will Be: 

Solution Architecture & Design Governance

• Own the overall quality and integrity of ERP solution designs across assigned projects and initiatives.
• Provide architecture guidance to ERP Functional Leads, technical teams, business stakeholders, and implementation partners.
• Review and validate proposed solutions to ensure they are scalable, supportable, integrated, and aligned with CECO standards.
• Establish and maintain practical design principles, solution standards, and governance expectations for ERP projects.
• Evaluate solution options and recommend approaches that balance business value, operational fit, complexity, risk, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure project-level design decisions support CECO's broader ERP direction and do not create unnecessary technical debt or downstream process issues.

D365 Template Development & Refinement

• Lead the ongoing development and refinement of CECO's D365 template, including standard processes, configuration principles, integration patterns, controls, reporting expectations, and reusable project deliverables.
• Ensure lessons learned from implementations, enhancements, acquisitions, and support activities are captured and incorporated into the template where appropriate.
• Partner with Functional Leads to confirm that project solutions align with the CECO template and that deviations are reviewed, justified, documented, and approved.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and strengthen the template so future projects can be delivered more consistently and efficiently.
• Maintain alignment between the ERP template, business process design, data standards, testing approach, deployment practices, and long-term support model.
• Help define what should be treated as core template, local variation, approved exception, or future roadmap item.

Functional Lead Support & Delivery Oversight

• Support project teams by providing guidance on solution design, requirements interpretation, integration impacts, and cross-functional decisions.
• Help project teams prepare for and navigate complex business discussions and design decisions.
• Review functional deliverables including process designs, functional specifications, requirements documentation, solution options, test scope, and deployment readiness materials.
• Identify gaps in project delivery, solution quality, business readiness, or partner performance and drive timely resolution.
• Provide coaching and practical guidance to improve consistency and quality across the team.
• Ensure project teams maintain clear traceability from business requirements through design, testing, deployment, and support.

Program Solution Quality & Timely Delivery

• Monitor solution quality across ERP projects and ensure key design decisions are made at the right level and at the right time.
• Identify cross-project dependencies, design conflicts, risks, and sequencing issues that could impact delivery quality or timelines.
• Drive resolution of complex design issues that span multiple functions, sites, projects, or business processes.
• Support project leadership by providing clear assessments of solution readiness, risks, and open decisions.
• Contribute to go/no-go recommendations for deployments, releases, and major solution milestones.
• Ensure ERP solutions are delivered in a manner that supports stable operations, long-term supportability, and future scalability.

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to understand operational needs, process impacts, and business priorities.
• Facilitate and support complex solution discussions where requirements, standard processes, system capabilities, and business expectations must be aligned.
• Challenge assumptions and customization requests when they create unnecessary complexity or move CECO away from standard, supportable ERP processes.
• Clearly communicate solution impacts, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote business process standardization and simplification across CECO operating companies where appropriate.

Technology, Integration & Roadmap Support

• Provide input into ERP roadmap planning, platform optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate ERP capabilities, ISV solutions, integrations, and related technologies that may provide business value.
• Partner with technical teams to ensure integrations, data flows, reporting, security, and controls are considered in solution designs.
• Support acquisition integrations, rollout planning, and harmonization of ERP processes across CECO businesses.
• Promote reuse, simplification, standardization, and sustainable architecture decisions across the ERP landscape.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of ERP implementation, enhancement, and business applications experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O) or equivalent enterprise ERP platform experience, with strong preference for D365 F&O.
• Demonstrated experience acting as a Solution Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, Solution Lead, or Architecture Lead on ERP implementation projects.
• Experience leading solution design across multiple ERP functional areas such as Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Inventory, Manufacturing, Planning, Warehouse Management, Project Operations, or related business processes.
• Experience guiding or supporting Functional Leads, business analysts, consultants, or project team members without direct people management authority.
• Experience reviewing and governing solution designs produced by internal teams and external implementation partners.
• Experience supporting large-scale ERP implementations, rollouts, acquisitions, migrations, or transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of integration points between business processes, systems, data, controls, reporting, and operational support.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to communicate complex solution concepts clearly to executive, business, functional, and technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within industrial manufacturing, engineered-to-order, make-to-stock, project manufacturing, or global manufacturing environments.
• Experience supporting multi-site or global ERP deployments.
• Experience with ERP integrations, middleware, data migration, master data governance, reporting, and analytics.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience establishing or operating architecture governance, design authority, or solution review forums.
• Experience developing or maintaining ERP templates, global process models, or reusable deployment assets.
• Experience evaluating ISV solutions, implementation partners, and third-party technology providers.

Licensing or Certifications:

• One or more of the following certifications are preferred:
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solution Architect Expert
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Manufacturing certifications
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or related Microsoft cloud certifications
• TOGAF, Agile, Lean, or Project Management certifications are beneficial but not required

Travel Requirements

Travel needs will vary by project but will typically be less than one week per month. Must have the ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

ADA Requirements: 

Office Positions

Work Environment: This position is based at the headquarters located in Dallas, TX. Minimal physical requirements, primarily computer use, and communication via virtual platforms, are necessary. Flexibility to adapt to occasional scheduled video meetings and collaborative tasks is essential.

Physical Demands

Positions in this function typically require standing, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.

Concentrated mental and/or visual attention. The work involves performing complex tasks to very close accuracy and quality specifications, or a high degree of hand and eye coordination for sustained periods. Compliance with company attendance standards.  

The job is typically performed under comfortable working conditions; any disagreeable elements are generally absent during normal performance of job.

Compliance with company attendance standards. 

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

We Offer: 

At CECO, we are committed to a culture where every employee is valued and respected for their unique experiences and perspectives. We believe a diverse and inclusive work environment contributes to the rich exchange of ideas and diversity of thoughts, that inspires innovation and brings the best solutions to our customers.  

ABOUT US 

CECO’s Commitment to Our People 

At CECO, our people are at the center of everything we do. Whether you’re a professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring opportunities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with CECO. 

ABOUT CECO 

CECO Environmental is a leading environmentally focused, diversified industrial company whose solutions protect people, the environment, and industrial equipment across the globe, serving a broad landscape of industrial air, industrial water and energy transition markets. 

We serve these markets an