Participate and self-drive thought leadership in overall application and integration strategy efforts while partnering with IT leaders across the company.
Define a menu of tech-stacks and engineering standards while understanding how cloud architecture impacts cost to run.
Understanding the architecture of our applications; developing roadmaps that proactively addresses technical debt and modernizing our infrastructure that is aligned with our engineering standards.
Conduct experiments to prove out modern technical solutions.
Develop reference architecture, design patterns, and boilerplates that provide guidelines and best practices for engineers, thus, freeing them to focus on delivering value.
Partner with the engineers by helping them implement these best practices and drive standardization of technologies and tools to achieve enterprise simplification and re-use.
Participate in the talent selection process for architects within the team.
Basic Qualifications:
Forward thinking to help drive the enterprise technology roadmap and best practices across the organization
Understanding of API architecture, Workflow Architecture, Integration Architecture & Data Transfer Architecture
Ability to present new ideas to senior & executive leadership teams
Integration Patterns and Strategies: Understanding various integration patterns such as point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, publish-subscribe, Streaming are crucial (NATS, Kafka etc.). Familiarity with strategies and implementation of API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, understanding of microservices principal.
Middleware and Integration Platforms: Knowledge of middleware solutions and integration platforms like MuleSoft, SAP CPI and any other tools
API Management: Proficiency in designing, deploying, and managing APIs. This includes understanding RESTful and SOAP services, API gateways, and security protocols. Well versed with API Management tool like Kong, MuleSoft, Apigee and/or any other.
Cloud Integration: Familiarity with cloud services and platforms such as AWS, Azure, ERP platforms (SAP, Infor, Salesforce®). This includes experience with enterprise Data Integration technologies including ETL, SQL, XSLT, XML, ANSI X12 EDI, OAGIS, and JSON
EDI Standards and Protocols: Should be well-versed in EDI standards such as ANSI X12, EDIFACT, and others. Understanding of EDI platform like Sterling Commerce, OpenText and/or other platform
Security: Understanding security best practices and compliance requirements is critical. This includes knowledge of encryption, authentication, authorization, and data privacy. Working understanding of security standards including SAML, XACML, MASSL, OATH, WSTrust, OAUTH, OpenID Connect.
What Will Put You Ahead:
Industrial (Edge) integration: Familiarity with various industrial protocols used for communication and data transfer in industrial environments. These include MQTT, OPC-UA, MODBUS, and others.
Coding Language: Expert level experience in GoLang.