Principal Engineer, Architect for Integration, Engineering, and Security

About the role

As the Architect for Integration, Engineering & Security, you will own the architectural direction for enterprise applications across portfolios and business units, design end-to-end data flows for analytics and AI, integrate security practices into application delivery, and contribute to the broader enterprise architecture practice.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise integration architecture:
  • Own the architectural direction for enterprise applications across application portfolios and business units.
  • Provide architecture for both custom-built applications and technology platforms.
  • Support software selection decisions.
  • Define architecture patterns.
  • Ensure architecture achieves information security requirements.
  • Work alongside engineering and product teams as an active, embedded partner in delivery.
• Enterprise plan platform and AI architecture:
  • Design end-to-end data flows between commercial and corporate systems and the data and analytics/AI platform.
  • Define flows of business operational data for analytics, management reporting, and surfacing analytics data into company applications.
  • Ensure business systems are designed to support emerging AI use cases.
  • Define integration patterns for data that keep client and company data secure.
  • Architect the integration of external industry data sources into business applications.
• Integration of security practices and architecture into application delivery:
  • Plan and shape integrations between systems that are secure by design.
  • Collaborate as a peer with cybersecurity engineering teams.
  • Jointly design patterns and delivery approaches for maximizing information security.
  • Ensure coherent data and integration plans.
  • Shape plans for phases of application change between parallel implementation programs.
• Architecture practice participation:
  • Operate as an active member of the enterprise architecture practice.
  • Collaborate with peer architects across commercial systems, enterprise systems, data/AI, and infrastructure/security.
  • Build, advocate, and participate in shared governance, architecture standards, and ways of working.
  • Contribute to keeping the practice coherent and relevant as the organization's technology agenda grows in complexity.
• Business domain expertise:
  • Bring working knowledge of retail and consumer packaged goods business processes.
  • Have experience in technology and processes such as sales/customer relationship management, category management, retail execution, and field workforce management.
  • Build credibility as a technology advisor to business stakeholders based on industry operational reality.
  • Advise on building shared capability, reusability, and user experience within company applications.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree.
• Experience: 10-12 years in a relevant field.
• Travel: No travel requirements.

Skills

• Integration architecture between custom/technology platform applications and enterprise resource planning systems.
• Data design: data flows, data model design, master data management principles, and AI technology affinity.
• Software selection, pattern definition, and product team partnership.
• Enterprise and/or deep solution architecture for custom and technology platform applications.
• Business domain expertise in retail, consumer packaged goods, field workforce management, services company service delivery, or revenue management.