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Enterprise Architect - Integration

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Responsibilities

  • Define and execute a business-aligned enterprise integration architecture strategy and vision.
  • Develop roadmaps, reference architectures, reusable patterns, standards, guardrails, and decision frameworks for APIs, events, messaging, iPaaS, data integration, cloud integration, and partner connectivity.
  • Guide teams in selecting synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, batch/file transfer, data replication, change data capture, and workflow orchestration patterns.
  • Govern API and event lifecycles, including design, versioning, ownership, documentation, reuse, onboarding, and deprecation.
  • Design and modernize complex systems for cloud-compatible or cloud-native operation, including legacy integration migration strategies.
  • Evaluate applications, integration platforms, vendor products, cloud services, and technical options, and develop business cases that influence technology direction.
  • Coach technology teams on architecture adoption, software development, platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, testing, and operational readiness.
  • Collaborate with business, application, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, PMO, vendor, and third-party teams.
  • Design for integration security, reliability, resiliency, observability, monitoring, alerting, error handling, and supportability.
  • Provide enterprise architecture thought leadership, recommendations, assurance, and ongoing discipline maintenance.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in enterprise software development, integration, architecture, and delivery.
  • 7+ years of experience creating solution architectures and strategies across business, application, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security domains.
  • Demonstrated leadership of enterprise integration architecture across APIs, messaging, events, batch/file, SaaS, cloud, legacy, and partner scenarios.
  • Strong knowledge of RESTful API design, OpenAPI, API gateways, API management, API security, versioning, lifecycle management, and developer experience.
  • Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, messaging, publish/subscribe, event streaming, event contracts, schema evolution, idempotency, replay, and eventual consistency.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more integration platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, Workato, Informatica, IBM App Connect, SAP Integration Suite, Kafka, Confluent, Solace, or AWS integration services.
  • Experience designing secure integrations using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, certificates, secrets management, encryption, least privilege, audit logging, and zero-trust principles.
  • Experience with cloud and hybrid integration across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, container platforms, on-premises systems, private connectivity, and enterprise network boundaries.
  • Expertise in security, resiliency, performance, scalability, caching, observability, availability, operational support, and total cost of ownership trade-offs.
  • Knowledge of data modeling, data contracts, canonical data models, schema governance, transformation patterns, and integration data ownership.
  • Experience with DevOps processes and tools, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code quality controls, deployment automation, environment strategy, and release management.
  • Competency with architecture frameworks, architecture decision records, reference architectures, standards, governance processes, and modern delivery methods.
  • Understanding of business process analysis, business process management, workflow orchestration, and process automation.
  • Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation, facilitation, problem-solving, business judgment, and coaching skills.
  • Preferred qualifications include regulated-industry experience, advanced AWS and Kafka/Confluent experience, change data capture, stream processing, ETL/ELT, lakehouse integrations, Kubernetes, platform engineering, architecture management tools, cost optimization, and AI or agentic integration enablement.
  • Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, cloud architect, Kubernetes, security, API management, Kafka/event streaming, MuleSoft, Boomi, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud are preferred, with equivalent practical experience accepted.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment and fluid career paths with encouragement of internal mobility.
  • Emphasis on purpose, well-being, work-life balance, inclusion, and community volunteering.

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