Simon & Schuster, Inc.
1230 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA
Job Description Posted Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.
Simon & Schuster was named to Forbes magazine list of America's Best Mid-Size Employers 2022. Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world's most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Adams Media, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.
We are seeking an
Enterprise Solutions Architect
to provide technical leadership and hands‑on architectural direction for critical systems within our book publishing organization.
This role is deeply focused on understanding, stabilizing, and modernizing long‑standing legacy platforms that support business‑critical processes. The successful candidate will lead architectural initiatives that balance operational continuity with incremental modernization, ensuring these core systems can safely evolve to support modern integration, analytics, and cloud‑based capabilities.
With 15+ years of experience, the ideal candidate brings deep architectural fluency in enterprise systems, strong supply chain domain knowledge, and experience guiding hybrid environments that span mainframe‑era platforms and modern cloud technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Evolve the architecture of legacy COBOL and .NET‑based supply chain systems, including warehousing, inventory management, distribution, order fulfillment, and financial platforms.
Develop a deep architectural understanding of existing applications, batch jobs, data structures, and integration points.
Lead efforts to stabilise, optimise, modernise and extend legacy systems, defining phased approaches that may include refactoring, encapsulation, re‑platforming, or selective replacement.
Legacy System Design & Integration
Design architectures that integrate online and batch‑driven systems with modern ERP platforms, cloud services, and third‑party logistics providers.
Drive initiatives such as:
API and service layers over existing legacy applications
Decomposition of monolithic systems into domain‑aligned capabilities
Transition from file‑based and overnight batch processing to event‑driven or near‑real‑time patterns where appropriate
Governance, Risk & Operational Stability
Establish and maintain architecture standards specific to legacy systems, including documentation, dependency mapping, and design reviews.
Identify and mitigate risks related to aging codebases, batch scheduling dependencies, data consistency, and operational fragility.
Ensure architectural decisions support reliability, recoverability, auditability, and compliance requirements for core supply chain operations.
Collaboration & Delivery Enablement
Work closely with engineers, legacy system specialists, and supply chain operations teams to ensure architectures are practical, executable, and well understood.
Support implementation teams by reviewing designs, guiding modernisation sequencing, and resolving cross‑system integration challenges.
Translate supply chain requirements into clear architectural designs grounded in the realities of existing platforms.
Technical Leadership & Knowledge Transfer
Promote best practices in system modernisation, including encapsulation, interface stabilisation, and technical debt reduction.
Document and share architectural patterns and lessons learned across supply chain and legacy initiatives.
Support evaluation and selection of modernisation tools, platforms, and system integrators.
Provide architectural oversight for vendor‑led modernisation efforts, ensuring alignment with long‑term supply chain architecture goals.
Contribute to build vs. buy vs. transform decisions for supply chain systems.
Required Qualifications
15+ years of experience in solutions or enterprise architecture within operationally critical, legacy‑heavy environments.
Demonstrated success working with and modernising enterprise systems, preferably in supply chain contexts.
Strong understanding of application architectures, batch processing models, and legacy data structures.
Deep experience with integration patterns spanning COBOL and .NET systems, including file‑based exchange, batch scheduling, messaging, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
Hands‑on architectural experience in hybrid environments combining legacy platforms with cloud services (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, operations teams, and delivery partners.
Preferred Experience
Experience in book publishing, media, or other content‑driven organisations.
Familiarity with:
Supply chain and ERP platforms
Warehouse management (WMS) and transportation systems (TMS)
Legacy schedulers, batch frameworks, and file‑based integration patterns
Exposure to enterprise data platforms, reporting, and analytics built on legacy operational data.
Simon & Schuster US is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. At Simon & Schuster US, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do. From employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Simon & Schuster US is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.
The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York City, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job‑related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance programme and PTO or, if applicable. Additionally, employees have access to our industry‑first, Broad Based Ownership programme, which makes all employees partners in our shared success.
Candidates hired for this or any other posted Simon & Schuster role will be employees of Simon & Schuster, LLC, subject to all policies , including the Workplace Privacy Notice , and eligible solely for the benefits plans thereof.
1230 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA
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Job Description Posted Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.
Simon & Schuster was named to Forbes magazine list of America's Best Mid-Size Employers 2022. Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world's most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Adams Media, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.
We are seeking an
Enterprise Solutions Architect
to provide technical leadership and hands‑on architectural direction for critical systems within our book publishing organization.
This role is deeply focused on understanding, stabilizing, and modernizing long‑standing legacy platforms that support business‑critical processes. The successful candidate will lead architectural initiatives that balance operational continuity with incremental modernization, ensuring these core systems can safely evolve to support modern integration, analytics, and cloud‑based capabilities.
With 15+ years of experience, the ideal candidate brings deep architectural fluency in enterprise systems, strong supply chain domain knowledge, and experience guiding hybrid environments that span mainframe‑era platforms and modern cloud technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Evolve the architecture of legacy COBOL and .NET‑based supply chain systems, including warehousing, inventory management, distribution, order fulfillment, and financial platforms.
Develop a deep architectural understanding of existing applications, batch jobs, data structures, and integration points.
Lead efforts to stabilise, optimise, modernise and extend legacy systems, defining phased approaches that may include refactoring, encapsulation, re‑platforming, or selective replacement.
Legacy System Design & Integration
Design architectures that integrate online and batch‑driven systems with modern ERP platforms, cloud services, and third‑party logistics providers.
Drive initiatives such as:
API and service layers over existing legacy applications
Decomposition of monolithic systems into domain‑aligned capabilities
Transition from file‑based and overnight batch processing to event‑driven or near‑real‑time patterns where appropriate
Governance, Risk & Operational Stability
Establish and maintain architecture standards specific to legacy systems, including documentation, dependency mapping, and design reviews.
Identify and mitigate risks related to aging codebases, batch scheduling dependencies, data consistency, and operational fragility.
Ensure architectural decisions support reliability, recoverability, auditability, and compliance requirements for core supply chain operations.
Collaboration & Delivery Enablement
Work closely with engineers, legacy system specialists, and supply chain operations teams to ensure architectures are practical, executable, and well understood.
Support implementation teams by reviewing designs, guiding modernisation sequencing, and resolving cross‑system integration challenges.
Translate supply chain requirements into clear architectural designs grounded in the realities of existing platforms.
Technical Leadership & Knowledge Transfer
Promote best practices in system modernisation, including encapsulation, interface stabilisation, and technical debt reduction.
Document and share architectural patterns and lessons learned across supply chain and legacy initiatives.
Support evaluation and selection of modernisation tools, platforms, and system integrators.
Provide architectural oversight for vendor‑led modernisation efforts, ensuring alignment with long‑term supply chain architecture goals.
Contribute to build vs. buy vs. transform decisions for supply chain systems.
Required Qualifications
15+ years of experience in solutions or enterprise architecture within operationally critical, legacy‑heavy environments.
Demonstrated success working with and modernising enterprise systems, preferably in supply chain contexts.
Strong understanding of application architectures, batch processing models, and legacy data structures.
Deep experience with integration patterns spanning COBOL and .NET systems, including file‑based exchange, batch scheduling, messaging, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
Hands‑on architectural experience in hybrid environments combining legacy platforms with cloud services (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, operations teams, and delivery partners.
Preferred Experience
Experience in book publishing, media, or other content‑driven organisations.
Familiarity with:
Supply chain and ERP platforms
Warehouse management (WMS) and transportation systems (TMS)
Legacy schedulers, batch frameworks, and file‑based integration patterns
Exposure to enterprise data platforms, reporting, and analytics built on legacy operational data.
Simon & Schuster US is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. At Simon & Schuster US, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do. From employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Simon & Schuster US is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.
The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York City, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job‑related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance programme and PTO or, if applicable. Additionally, employees have access to our industry‑first, Broad Based Ownership programme, which makes all employees partners in our shared success.
Candidates hired for this or any other posted Simon & Schuster role will be employees of Simon & Schuster, LLC, subject to all policies , including the Workplace Privacy Notice , and eligible solely for the benefits plans thereof.
1230 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA
#J-18808-Ljbffr