SIL Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and technical direction for the enterprise Integration Layer that powers critical business capabilities across the organization.
• Define technical strategy, lead modernization initiatives, and ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient integration solutions that connect applications, data, and business processes across the enterprise.
• Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and business stakeholders to define, prioritize, and deliver integration initiatives.
• Lead backlog refinement activities, ensuring technical requirements are appropriately defined, estimated, and ready for execution.
• Provide architectural guidance, solution designs, and implementation recommendations throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Drive technical prioritization that balances business value, platform stability, scalability, operational risk, and technical debt management.
• Facilitate strategic decision-making and tradeoff discussions among business and technology stakeholders.
• Support engineering workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, and professional development initiatives.

Engineering & Delivery Leadership

• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, sustainable technology solutions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Data Platform, Digital Factory, Product Management, and business leadership teams.
• Lead engineering teams and deliver complex technology initiatives across large organizations.
• Manage technical roadmaps, platform modernization efforts, and engineering prioritization.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Data Platform, Digital Factory, Product Management, and business leadership teams.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, sustainable technology solutions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on integration strategy, platform capabilities, and technology investments.
• Align integration initiatives across multiple programs, business units, and operating companies to maximize enterprise value.

Governance & Operational Excellence

• Establish governance standards for APIs, enterprise integrations, event contracts, and platform services.
• Ensure platform reliability, supportability, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Drive enterprise standards for observability, alerting, monitoring, and service health management.
• Maintain architecture documentation, engineering standards, and technical roadmaps.
• Identify, prioritize, and reduce technical debt while maintaining delivery commitments.
• Promote operational excellence through consistent measurement, reporting, and continuous improvement practices.