Integration Architect

Primary Responsibility :

Responsibility for the developing and maintaining the technology architecture and acts as the integration architecture expert for the company.

Set long-term strategic goals for systems.

Lead the technical analysis of intermediate to large integration projects.

Responsible for ensuring that the technical architecture is followed and that services necessary to meet the changing needs of the organization are implemented and maintained.

Provide planning, coordination and oversight of activities related to integration of software programs and applications into the organization's information systems.

What You'll Do :

• Definition of integration architecture design principles to guide and govern how integration solutions will be designed and implemented to lower costs and improve application maintainability, flexibility, scalability, robustness, performance, and ability to troubleshoot.

These may include principles such as: insulating the end applications from the variability of the customer, minimizing failure points by limiting the number of data flows, isolating customer impacting changes from other customers by increasing the number of maps, etc.
• Define and implement strategies for integrating disparate operating system environments
• Analyzes current integration architectures for opportunities for large efficiency gains in the application administration/management or opportunities for large improvements in robustness or performance.

Designs and/or recommends tools and/or customizations that realize those gains
• Provides the technical analysis, architecture design and/or architecture review of all intermediate to large integration projects.

Works to ensure all designs are compliant with established integration principles and adhere to or move the company closer to the integration architecture strategy with each incremental change.

Builds organizational awareness and acceptance of integration principles
• Drive out the key global business requirements and translate into workable requirements containing process information, data flows, comprehensive functional specifications and test plans - challenging any requests that may be unreasonable or unnecessary - and ultimately ensuring that project deliverables are met according to requirements
• Responsible for working with the application groups to plan and execute integration strategies necessary for the integration of information or functions between key application services and systems
• Maintains awareness of emerging integration technologies, supporting infrastructure layers, industry trends and vendor architecture strategies.

Provides leadership in the research and evaluation of proposed new integration technologies for applicability to the company, performance, reliability, cost, integration requirements, and determines place in company's software architecture strategy.

Mentors team members on new technologies
• Provides support for launch team and...