ERP Modernization Architect

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : ERP Modernization Architect – VB to C# Conversion

Position Location : Summit, NJ / Hybrid

Reports To : Senior VP - IT

Company Summary

Sugar Foods LLC is a privately owned company with production facilities in Georgia, Massachusetts, California, and Mexico. Our products are sold and distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada. Sugar Foods manufactures and packages croutons, tortilla chips, crispy toppings, caramels, and chocolate syrups, as well as cheese-based toppings. Additionally, Sugar Foods packages a variety of items including sugar, sweeteners, powdered creamer, breadings, and coaters, and dried fruits and nuts.

The Sugar Foods Way

At Sugar Foods, the Customer is King, and our team is our Family. The vision of Sugar Foods is for our products to be on every plate and in every cup. We continue to grow our business and adapt to changing business conditions to consistently provide value to our customers, our associates, and our community, by adhering to high standards of quality and safety and always acting in a respectful and responsible manner.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and business-minded ERP Modernization Architect to join a collaborative team tasked with reengineering our core, home-grown Order-to-Cash ERP system . Developed and refined over the past 30 years in Visual Basic 6 , this mission-critical platform is being rewritten in C# to support long-term scalability and modernization.

This role requires an individual who excels in architectural thinking, hands-on coding, and process understanding . You'll work closely with business leaders and legacy system experts to translate complex, custom logic into modern, maintainable C# code, while identifying and implementing opportunities to improve business workflows along the way.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical architect for the VB6-to-C# modernization effort, helping define structural approaches to code refactoring and system design.
• Analyze legacy Visual Basic 6 code to extract, understand, and document business logic and system behavior.
• Collaboratively re-implement this logic in C#, using best practices for performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Work with IT and business stakeholders to validate business process fidelity and recommend enhancements when applicable.
• Mentor developers on the team and ensure technical consistency and code quality across the modernization effort.
• Contribute to system testing, performance tuning, and release planning.

Required Technical Skills

Integration & Ecosystem Understanding

QAD for MRP / DRP (Material and Distribution Requirements Planning) functions.

Business and Analytical Skills

Preferred Qualifications

Why Join Us

This is a rare opportunity to influence the future of a mission-critical ERP platform while preserving the best of its legacy. You’ll work side-by-side with individuals who built the original system and bring decades of institutional knowledge, creating an ideal environment for deep learning, thoughtful innovation, and lasting impact.

Sugar Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of Sugar Foods Corporation is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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