Lead Enterprise Applications Consultant
Overview
We are seeking a Lead Enterprise Applications Consultant to assess, design, and mature a growing enterprise application ecosystem across a rapidly scaling organization. This individual will provide both strategic leadership and hands-on execution across enterprise applications, integration architecture, governance, vendor management, and technology road mapping.
The ideal candidate has experience building scalable application environments in high-growth, capital-intensive organizations and understands how to establish a disciplined, integrated technology landscape that supports long-term business growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct an enterprise-wide assessment of business applications, processes, ownership models, and integration architecture.
- Partner with stakeholders across Finance, FP&A, HR, Procurement, Commercial Operations, Project Controls, and Executive Leadership to identify business requirements and future needs.
- Develop and execute an enterprise application strategy spanning ERP, EPM, HRIS, procurement, reporting, collaboration, data, and commercial systems.
- Establish application governance, lifecycle management, ownership structures, support models, and vendor management processes.
- Evaluate new technology requests and prevent fragmented or duplicative platforms from emerging across business functions.
- Lead application selection, integration, and modernization initiatives while ensuring business requirements drive technology decisions.
- Define enterprise integration standards leveraging APIs, middleware, iPaaS, identity management, and cloud-based platforms.
- Develop roadmaps that improve scalability, operational efficiency, reporting capabilities, and user adoption.
- Serve as a hands-on leader capable of operating at both strategic and technical levels.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience leading enterprise applications, application architecture, or enterprise systems initiatives.
- Proven experience conducting enterprise application assessments and delivering strategic recommendations.
- Strong background across ERP, EPM, HRIS, reporting, procurement, collaboration, and enterprise business applications.
- Deep experience with SaaS platforms, APIs, middleware, iPaaS solutions, identity management, and systems integration.
- Demonstrated success evaluating, selecting, implementing, and integrating enterprise applications.
- Experience building or maturing enterprise application functions within startup, transformation, carve-out, or rapidly scaling environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to align business and technology priorities.
- Ability to translate evolving business requirements into scalable application architecture and roadmaps.
- Hands-on technical leadership experience combined with strong strategic planning capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within energy, construction, industrial infrastructure, engineering, utilities, data center, or other capital-intensive industries.
- Experience helping organizations transition from startup or early-stage operations to mature enterprise environments.
- Background developing enterprise application roadmaps and governance frameworks.
- Familiarity with executive reporting, FP&A reporting, and operational analytics platforms.
- Experience managing complex multi-vendor enterprise application ecosystems.
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com
