Position Summary
The Enterprise Integration Architect is responsible for the design, governance, development, and lifecycle management of the firm's enterprise integration ecosystem, ensuring business applications, platforms, and data services are connected through scalable, secure, and supportable integration solutions. This role establishes the long-term integration strategy, evaluates and recommends integration technologies and platforms, defines architectural standards, and provides hands-on leadership for the implementation of complex integration solutions. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, application portfolio leads, data teams, vendors, and business stakeholders, the Integration Architect ensures integration capabilities enable business objectives while maintaining scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities
Enterprise Integration Architecture & Strategy
Own integration roadmap, operating model, governance, standards, reference architectures, and technology direction.
Evaluate and recommend integration platforms, middleware technologies, API management solutions, and supporting tools.
Lead proof-of-concepts, technical evaluations, and vendor assessments to support technology selection decisions.
Define integration standards, reference architectures, governance practices, and approved design patterns.
Establish the enterprise integration operating model and ensure solutions align with long-term business and technology strategies.
Integration Solution Design & Development
Lead architecture reviews, approve designs, establish development standards, perform mentorship, and provide technical leadership for strategic initiatives.
Design and develop complex integrations across SaaS applications, business systems, data platforms, and emerging technology solutions.
Provide hands-on development for high-complexity integration initiatives, proof-of-concepts, and strategic technical projects.
Conduct design and code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and supportability.
Mentor technical resources and support knowledge transfer across the organization.
Integration Platform Operations & Reliability
Ensure operational stability and reliability of enterprise integration services.
Monitor integration performance, failures, system dependencies, and capacity considerations.
Lead troubleshooting and resolution efforts for critical integration issues.
Establish operational support processes, diagnostics, monitoring standards, and recovery procedures.
Drive continuous improvement activities that improve resiliency and reduce support burden.
Application & Data Connectivity Strategy
Partner with application owners, business stakeholders, data teams, and vendors to define integration requirements and solution approaches.
Develop reusable integration capabilities that reduce point-to-point complexity and technical debt.
Guide API, event-driven, data exchange, and middleware strategies across the enterprise.
Ensure integration solutions support enterprise data governance, security, and compliance requirements.
Identify opportunities to improve business processes through better system connectivity and automation.
Portfolio Planning & Continuous Improvement
Maintain and prioritize the integration architecture and enhancement backlog.
Evaluate emerging integration technologies, platforms, and industry best practices.
Support project planning and estimate effort, risks, dependencies, and implementation considerations.
Provide visibility into integration priorities, risks, capacity constraints, and roadmap recommendations.
Drive modernization initiatives that improve scalability, maintainability, and organizational agility.
Core Competencies
Communication
Keeps others well informed and prioritizes audiences, accuracy, and timeliness.
Facilitates an efficient, consistent workflow and exchange of information.
Adjusts communication based on needs and make-up of…