Solution Architect

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Software Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team is looking for a Solution Architect to join the team.

In this role, you will collaborate with SE&I engineers and architects globally to create engineering standards that maximize the division of labor, allowing engineers to focus on their core strengths.

This approach aims to boost efficiency and deliver higher returns through innovative technology solutions.

The Solution Architect will also develop technical and architectural roadmaps to modernize our legacy technology and drive transformational change.

Additionally, you will work with multifunctional teams to provide solutioning services and create reference architectures based on successful solutions to address business challenges.

Location: This is a hybrid role based out of our GP Headquarters in Atlanta, GA.

Our Team

GP's Software Engineering & Integration team's core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions.

We recently initiated our transformation journey, creating functions and capabilities that enable engineers to have major impacts on GP's business performance.

We seek to build functionality once, so engineers are encouraged to re-use their peers' work and modify then scale it to meet new use cases.

We focus on delivering profitable business outcomes by partnering with business analysts, delivery leaders, and quality engineers to build the right solution at the right speed.

What You Will Do


* 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

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Experience with various integration patterns such as point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, publish-subscribe, streaming (NATS, Kafka etc)


* Experience with strategies and implementation of API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, and understanding of microservices principles


* MuleSoft, SAP CPI, or other middleware solution and integration platform experience


* Experience designing, deploying, and managing APIs, using tools such as Kon...