Architect - Enterprise Integration

About the Role

You will lead the architecture and delivery of hybrid integration solutions across on-prem and cloud platforms using iPaaS and traditional ESB technologies. The role spans integration strategy, reference architecture, governance, and hands-on enablement to accelerate digital programs (ERP modernization, SaaS adoption, API-led connectivity, event-driven integration).

Responsibilities

• Define integration strategy and reference architectures for hybrid estates (on-prem, private/public cloud).
• Select patterns (API-led, event-driven, messaging, B2B/EDI, streaming) and align to enterprise standards, scalability, security, and cost.
• Create roadmaps for modernization from legacy ESB to iPaaS while ensuring business continuity.
• Establish DevOps pipelines (Git, CI/CD, automated testing), environment promotion, observability (logs, metrics, traces).
• Define API governance, versioning, documentation (OpenAPI), throttling, and SLA management.
• Implement Zero Trust controls, OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, secrets management, and data protection (PII masking, tokenization).
• Standardize integration patterns, coding guidelines, and design review process.
• Lead solution design for programs (ERP/SAP, CRM, HCM, finance) and integration blueprints per domain.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, and license/utilization management across platforms.
• Mentor engineers; run guilds/CoE; deliver POCs and performance tuning; resolve production incidents.
• Partner with enterprise architects, security, infra/cloud, and application teams.
• Translate business requirements into integration epics; articulate trade-offs and TCO.
• Support presales/RFPs with solution proposals and effort estimates.

Requirements

Platform Ownership (Hands-on on any one or more iPaaS platforms)

• MuleSoft: Hands-on experience with iPaaS and integration platforms.
• Boomi: Design Atom/AtomSphere topology, implement integrations, manage Molecule clustering, deploy APIs, Boomi Flow, and connectors (SAP, Salesforce, Workday, etc.).
• webMethods: Architect Integration Server, API Gateway, Microservices Runtime, B2B/Trading Networks (EDI/X12/EDIFACT), and optimize Universal Messaging.
• IBM: Design with App Connect Enterprise, API Connect, IBM MQ/Kafka, enforce policies, and set up gateway topologies & lifecycle.

Architecture & Patterns

• API-led connectivity, microservices integration, synchronous/asynchronous patterns.
• Event-driven architectures (Kafka/MQ), pub/sub, CQRS, saga, idempotency.
• B2B/EDI (X12/EDIFACT), partner onboarding, mapping, compliance.

Cloud & Platform

• AWS/Azure/GCP services for integration (VPC, PrivateLink/Peering, LB, Secrets, KMS).
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Networking: VPC design, routing, NAT, firewall, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) basics.

DevOps & Quality

• CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Azure DevOps), automated tests, static checks.
• Observability: Grafana/Prometheus, ELK/OpenSearch, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry).
• Performance engineering: throughput, latency, back-pressure, resilience testing.

Security & Compliance

• OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, SAML, mTLS; WAF, rate limiting, API policies.
• Data privacy & compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS where relevant).

Managerial Skills

• Executive communication, solution storytelling, stakeholder alignment.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, conflict resolution, decision frameworks.

Pay

$140,000-$180,000 a year.