Solutions Architect, Integration

BUILD A BETTER CAREER WITH MSC

Serving customers and our community starts with the best people doing their best work. That is precisely what we have created at MSC Industrial Supply Co. We are a leading North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), products and services. We offer more than 2 million products and have over 80 years of experience across dozens of industries.

We aim to execute our Built to Make You Better brand promise for all our stakeholders, including our associates.

Requisition  : 21165

Employment Type : Full Time

Job Category : Digital/IT

Work Location : Davidson, NC (CSC)

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The Solutions Architect, Integration is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving integration as a shared enterprise platform capability across MSC. This role provides architectural leadership for the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and reliable integration solutions spanning APIs, events, file transfers, and legacy connectivity, while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards. Operating at the intersection of architecture and delivery, the role guides engineering teams, establishes integration patterns, and drives high-quality outcomes across all integration initiatives.

This position is critical to enabling MSC's composable architecture, AI, and advanced analytics strategies by ensuring enterprise systems and data are connected through scalable, real-time integration capabilities.

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Lead and govern the design and delivery of integration solutions across enterprise systems, partners, and platforms, ensuring alignment with architecture standards and business objectives
• Provide technical direction and design oversight to engineering and delivery teams, guiding solution design, resolving complex challenges, and ensuring scalable, maintainable outcomes aligned with MSC integration standards and patterns
• Drive end-to-end delivery across the integration lifecycle (design, build, test, deploy, support), ensuring high quality, performance, reliability, and operational stability
• Enable AI and advanced analytics use cases by ensuring enterprise data and systems are accessible through modern integration patterns, and drive adoption of real-time, event-driven integration approaches
• Provide mentorship to integration engineers and developers, influence technical decisions, serve as an escalation point for complex integration challenges, and drive the adoption of integration best practices and continuous improvement-

Integration Architecture & Patterns

• Define and implement standard integration patterns (API-led, event-driven, batch/file, messaging)
• Establish reusable frameworks, templates, and accelerators to improve speed and consistency
• Ensure solutions align to enterprise architecture and data standards
• Evaluate and recommend integration technologies and tools
• Design for scalability, resiliency, and future growth of the platform

Platform Ownership & Governance

• Act as the technical steward of MSC s Integration Platform, defining and governing standards, patterns, and architectural guardrails across all integration initiatives
• Ensure integrations are secure, reliable, and observable by establishing requirements for monitoring, data integrity, error handling, and operational support
• Drive consistency and adoption of integration best practices across teams, ensuring solutions are reusable, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture
• Continuously evolve the integration platform by identifying opportunities to enhance capabilities, improve efficiency, and support emerging digital and data-driven needs

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with business teams, architects,…