Integration Platform Architect

About the role

The Job Georgia-Pacific’s Software Engineering & Integration team (SE&I) is seeking an Integration Platform Architect to join the team in Atlanta, GA. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple technological and business capabilities in an integrated business team to deliver Integration solutions that support GP’s business segments. Your work will play a key role in supporting our integration solutions and driving innovation for our business.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for designing, governing, and evolving how systems connect across the enterprise, ensuring integrations are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Partnering with business, product managers, domain architects and functional leads to design and deliver efficient integration solutions.
• Select the right integration platform and patterns for each use case.
• Review existing architecture designs across enterprise integration to identify gaps, risks, and technical debt, and propose redesigning where needed.
• Own technical decision-making for App integration and B2B integration (EDI), guiding the team through complex issues and clearing blockers to keep delivery moving.
• Utilizing strong problem solving and analytical skills as well as good written and verbal communication skills to discuss requirements, support, status updates, etc. to audiences including technical and non-technical users.
• Challenging the status quo and focusing on long-term value when designing solutions
• Collaborating with various IT teams such as infrastructure support, networking, database administrators, and business teams to support the end-to-end SDLC.

Requirements

• Previous experience translating enterprise integration strategy into technical direction that simplifies platforms, enables AI adoption, and aligns EDI, API, and event-driven integrations with long-term architectural goals.
• Previous experience designing, building, and maintaining AWS-based cloud platforms, including security, networking, observability, and cost optimization.
• Previous experience overseeing large, complex integration platform ecosystems, providing architectural guidance across application Integration and platform engineering teams while identifying risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Experience applying best practices for API management and integration patterns, including error handling, logging, and working with common data formats such as XML, JSON, and EDI formats (ANSI X12, EDIFACT).
• Previous experience maintaining EDI/B2B platforms (e.g., IBM Sterling, Axway, OpenText), including upgrades, patching, and configuration management.
• Previous experience identifying high-value AI use cases, assessing data and process readiness, and designing AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Previous experience mentoring technical leads and engineers, influencing design decisions, while empowering teams to operate autonomously and deliver end-to-end solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM or a related field.
• Previous experience in modernizing integration platforms while maintaining production stability.
• Previous experience implementing connections to various data sources using protocols such as JDBC, HTTPS, LDAP, JMS, SFTP, FTPS, EDIINT AS2, ODATA and VAN-based connectivity.
• Previous experience working with common EDI business transaction sets, such as Purchase Orders, Invoices, Advance Ship Notices (ASN), Shipping Notices, and Functional Acknowledgments (e.g., X12 850, 810, 856, 997/999).
• Previous experience with streaming platforms like Kinesis, Kafka, NATS.
• Previous experience enabling and scaling AI adoption by exposing integration through reusable, well governed integrations, APIs, and event streams that allow other teams and platforms to build integration much faster.

Skills

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to mentor technical leads and engineers.
• Experience with AWS-based cloud platforms.
• Experience with EDI/B2B platforms (e.g., IBM Sterling, Axway, OpenText).
• Experience with streaming platforms like Kinesis, Kafka, NATS.
• Experience with common EDI business transaction sets.
• Experience with modernizing integration platforms.
• Experience with AI and machine learning.

Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Specific details are confidential and not publicly disclosed.

Schedule

This is a hybrid onsite role (3 days in office) based out of our Atlanta GP office.