IT Architect (ADI

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The Integration Solutions Architect is responsible for leading the creation of a technology architecture framework and providing technical leadership in support of the organization’s initiatives in on-prem & cloud computing by leveraging both on-prem and cloud integration services and automation and ensuring public and private services and solutions are architected and designed optimally for cost, functionality, reliability, and resiliency. The Architect will also be responsible for implementation and delivery utilizing the standards in the organization’s Enterprise Integration strategy along with the introduction of new emerging technologies and public cloud services, API services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategies.

The Architect will work with development teams and other stakeholders and provide architecture leadership and best practices as well as drive and enable the migration and refactoring of on-premises applications to cloud native design and deployment methodologies.

• Integration Architecture, Design, and Development
• Demonstrate deep subject matter leadership of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi‑tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Manage the development and implementation of Integration strategy, develop the architecture governance framework, and define architecture foundations
• Define integration standards, Dev Ops, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tool chain and Standard Operating Environment (SOE)
• Define, implement, and enforce the Enterprise Integration standards, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Standards, Business Process Integration (BPI) standards, and associated tools/platforms/frameworks for the organization’s application portfolio, in coordination with IT-wide efforts and Technology Architecture and Planning
• Drive Proof-of-Concepts and implementation, with hands‑on involvement as subject matter expert (SME) for new SOA items: build deployment automation pipelines, build automated next gen CI/CD pipelines partnering with development teams, build and integrate new technologies like containers enabling multi‑cloud and preventing cloud provider lock‑in
• Define and execute the Enterprise Integration strategy for public and private cloud migrations and on‑premises evolution, in alignment with overall IT strategy and directions
• Define and enforce Integration architecture best practices: availability; redundancy schemes, performance, Disaster Recovery, DB, and Interfacing Systems, etc.
• Act as a SME to the organization for the organizations on‑prem and cloud end‑to‑end architecture, including SAP, Azure platforms, Success Factors, HANA API etc. networking, provisioning, and management
• Develop a library of deployable and documented design patterns, based on the…