Senior Advisor III, ERP Platform Architect
Houston, TX, US, 77042
Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future
As the Senior Advisor III, ERP Platform Architect, you will shape the long-term strategy and design of Phillips 66’s enterprise ERP ecosystem. You’ll guide architectural direction across complex SAP landscapes, ensuring that ERP capabilities enable business value, maintain clean-core discipline, and meet regulatory and security expectations. This role operates at an enterprise level, providing expert architectural leadership that connects technology decisions to business outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Develop and evolve SAP architecture strategy aligned with business priorities and clean-core principles.
- Lead architectural oversight for integrations, custom development, M&A activity, and modernization initiatives.
- Define sustainable architecture standards and direct infrastructure and platform planning.
- Guide upgrades, conversions, tooling decisions, and integration patterns across SAP and non-SAP systems.
- Document and analyze current and future-state capabilities and guide enterprise readiness for change.
- Identify and respond to security risks, ensure compliance with regulatory and audit requirements, and evaluate emerging technologies.
- Evaluate emerging SAP capabilities and define architectural guardrails for responsible adoption aligned to enterprise governance.
- Mentor team members and influence key technology decisions without direct authority.
What You'll Bring – Required
- 10 or more years of broad, deep experience in enterprise architecture or related technical leadership roles
- Advanced proficiency and extensive hands‑on SAP experience, including S/4HANA, ECC architecture, and landscape design
- Intermediate proficiency and knowledge of SAP PCE operating model and vendor delivery structures
- Expert proficiency in defining and governing ERP architecture standards across applications, data, integration, security, and technology domains
- Advanced proficiency in SAP Clean Core principles, technical debt governance, system conversions, and upgrade strategies
- Intermediate proficiency in SAP BTP services, monitoring tools, observability solutions, or business process monitoring
- Intermediate proficiency in designing and assessing ERP integrations across SAP and non‑SAP systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, MIS or a related discipline
- Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred
- Experience supporting SAP landscapes in asset‑intensive or highly regulated industries
- Experience defining ERP or SAP standards in large enterprise environments
- Knowledge of modern DevOps practices applied to SAP, including extensibility frameworks and custom‑code modernization
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, MIS or related discipline
- Recognized subject‑matter expertise in data architecture, cloud computing, integration, or security management
- Experience identifying and responding to security incidents and ensuring operational compliance
- Advanced skills in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD concepts, and modern development environments
- Familiarity with SAP Joule AI capabilities and emerging SAP AI tools
Compensation Range
This position has a base salary range of $176,400 – $215,600.
At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.
Total Rewards
At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being — physical, emotional, social, and financial — is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results — personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:
- Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
- 8% 401k company match
- Cash Balance Account pension
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
- Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services
Learn more about Phillips 66 Total Rewards.
Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ+ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue excellence.
Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com.
To be considered
In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 03/27/2026.
Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Nearest Major Market: Houston