Integration Architect (Georgia, United States)

About the role

The Integration Architect is a leading performer responsible for delivering solutions within a Global IT Center of Excellence (COE) team. This role involves devising or modifying procedures to solve complex problems and working at a high technical level in applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage large cross-functional projects or processes.
• Work with Global IT COE colleagues and project sponsors/customers to determine the long-term application architecture and strategy.
• Provide leadership and development skills to efficiently develop code that can be leveraged across multiple sites. Influence others regarding policies, practices, and procedures.
• Leverage creativity and comprehensive process, technical, or operational understanding to resolve a wide range of issues.
• Analyze and provide technical advice and direction regarding the interface/integration of supported systems with the rest of the application portfolio; analyze how the supported applications can best serve business functions; recognize the impact to the business of proposed applications changes and advise IT colleagues accordingly.
• Creatively and strategically support key business objectives.
• Document and maintain best practices, project standards, procedures, application, quality objectives and lessons learned; ensure that applications systems are developed in a way that complies with architectural/development standards and established methodologies and practices.
• Perform high-level critical thinking, detailed information gathering, and application of business knowledge.
• Generate fresh perspectives, breakthrough ideas, and new approaches that create value in the market.
• Proactively investigate and/or lead investigations of alternative approaches, technologies, or partnerships.
• Collaborate with and may lead functional or cross-functional teams to generate solutions to complex problems.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 6-8 years’ relevant experience or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise integration technologies including SAP PO/PI, SAP CPI (Integration Suite), BizTalk, Azure Integration Services, and API Management platforms (Azure APIM, Apigee, Sentinet), with exposure to SLT and SSIS.
• Strong technical expertise in integration patterns and protocols such as IDocs, RFCs, SOAP, REST, OData, JMS, along with API-led and event-driven architectures, and deep understanding of security standards including OAuth2, JWT, and SSL/TLS.
• Proven experience integrating SAP with non-SAP and SaaS platforms, coupled with exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and secure cloud/DMZ integration architectures.
• Own the enterprise integration architecture spanning SAP and cloud platforms.
• Define integration patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, batch, APIs).
• Establish middleware standards, canonical models, and reuse frameworks.
• Drive cloud-first and API-led integration strategy aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Design complex integrations across S/4HANA, ECC, SuccessFactors, Ariba, MDG, CRM, legacy, and SaaS systems.

Qualifications

• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own job discipline or field.
• Recognized cross-functionally as an expert within one or two subject matter areas.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential data.
• Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player, and able to handle multiple projects at once.
• High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.