Application & Integration Architect
ARHS Group2 hours ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture standards, principles, governance frameworks, and architectural artifacts.
- Design enterprise-wide integration architectures involving connectors, APIs, service bus solutions, integration flows, and data exchange mechanisms.
- Translate business, user, and technical requirements into scalable integration architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Plan and optimize integration platform capacity, security, performance, availability, scalability, and quality.
- Analyze existing systems and identify integration opportunities, solution options, and architecture improvements.
- Lead development teams and contribute to development-process improvement, testing, quality assurance, change management, and DevSecOps practices.
- Prepare architecture documentation, technical specifications, executive presentations, and enterprise architecture repository content.
- Select, assess, and recommend integration technologies, tools, platforms, standards, and architectural patterns.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret system and platform metrics.
Requirements
- Master's degree or equivalent qualification at EQF Level 7.
- At least 8 years of relevant IT professional experience, including at least 5 years in a similar Enterprise Integration Architect position.
- At least two internationally recognized certifications from the listed architecture, DevOps, Azure, TIBCO, SOA, or equivalent certification options.
- Experience serving as lead architect for at least one enterprise-wide integration platform deployment.
- Expert knowledge of data- and API-level system integration architecture, integration connectors, integration flows, enterprise service bus solutions, capacity planning, and integration-platform security architecture.
- Knowledge of integration patterns, standards, architectural models, serverless and containerization technologies, databases, application servers, middleware, cloud integration patterns, software development lifecycle methodologies, UML, DevSecOps, and hybrid integration approaches.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or ARIS Architect.
- Knowledge of TOGAF, Zachman Framework, Azure Well-Architected Framework, or equivalent architectural standards and frameworks.
- Strong communication, documentation, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Advantageous experience includes ArchiMate, the European Interoperability Framework, enterprise architecture styles and reference architectures, cloud-native integration services, API management platforms, and large-scale public-sector or international-organization environments.