Application and Integration Architect
ARHS Group2 months ago
Remote, Poland or Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set standards for architecture, design, development, quality, and testing.
- Design enterprise databases, schemas, analytical platforms, BI services, and data governance solutions.
- Translate business, user, and technical needs into architectures and map goals, benefits, priorities, components, and system features.
- Analyze existing systems, applications, and services and identify potential solution options.
- Maintain architecture throughout the systems lifecycle and contribute to enterprise architecture repositories and artifacts.
- Estimate network infrastructure capacity for systems and business applications.
- Lead development teams and development processes and contribute to system design, testing, quality assurance, and change management.
- Select and evaluate technologies, collect and interpret system metrics, and optimize performance, security, and quality.
- Design and plan enterprise integration platforms, connectors, flows, service buses, APIs, and data-level integrations.
- Prepare system documentation and deliver presentations.
Requirements
- Master's degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional IT experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in a similar position and at least 2 years as an application architect.
- Minimum English proficiency of CEFR B2.
- At least two relevant certifications, including options such as Iasa Architect CITA-A, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals, TIBCO Certified Associate, or Certified SOA Architect.
- Experience serving as a key architect for at least one enterprise-wide integration platform deployment.
- Expertise in systems integration at the data and API levels, enterprise integration-platform connectors and flows, service bus solutions, capacity planning, and integration-platform security.
- Knowledge of integration patterns, standards and models; serverless and containerization platforms; hybrid cloud and on-premises integration; DevSecOps; UML; and software development lifecycles.
- Technical knowledge of TIBCO or MuleSoft, SOA, databases, application servers, communication middleware, web applications, cloud integration patterns, and business intelligence concepts.
- Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, ARIS Architect, or comparable systems-modeling tools and with ArchiMate modeling.
- Familiarity with TOGAF, Zachman, Azure Well-Architected Framework, or similar architecture standards.
- Experience aligning application development with business needs and providing architecture services to large-scale IT systems for centralized operational-resource management.
- Strong communication, documentation, problem-solving, and leadership skills.