IT Solutions Architect - Enterprise Integrations

Key Responsibilities

• Influence and Change Leadership: Proven ability to influence technology strategy and architectural decisions across large organizations. Skilled at communicating complex technical concepts to executive leaders, business stakeholders, architects, and engineers. Capable of driving organizational change, challenging the status quo, building consensus among diverse stakeholder groups, and leading adoption of new processes, standards, and technologies.
• Define integration strategies and enterprise modernization of its integration architecture with a focus on Event Driven Architecture (i.e. Kafka) and external data sharing.
• Architect and implement integration frameworks and solutions using Azure, MuleSoft, messaging queues, REST/SOAP, EDI, SFTP, and database adapters.
• Define and enforce integration patterns, security protocols, and governance models.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable integration designs.
• Monitor and optimize integration performance using tools like Anypoint Platform, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Key Vault.
• Oversee design enterprise integration capabilities between related manufacturing application platforms.
• Accountable to ensure architectural diagrams are created in support of major system to system integration flows.
• Provides advanced technical expertise, oversight and accountability for resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with support teams.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in integration technologies.

Required Skills

• Deep understanding of SOA, microservices, and cloud-native integration development practices.
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture.
• Proficiency in Azure Integration services, API management, and IAM.
• Experience with internal platform integration (ERP, CRM, and financial systems integration), and external business integrations.
• Effective writing and communication skills and creating presentations and documenting architecture roadmaps, and strategic recommendations.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling business language that enables informed decision-making at all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture or integration roles.
• Proven experience with Azure (APIM, Functions, Azure Service Bus), MuleSoft Anypoint Platform development and architecture design.
• Strong understanding of integration technologies including Azure, MuleSoft, and B2B integrations.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.