Integration Architect

ITC Infotech is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC Limited, one of India's foremost private sector companies and a diversified conglomerate. The ITC Group, with a market capitalization of $65 billion, is globally recognized as a leader in sustainability. The group's vision is to achieve world-class performance and create growing value for both the Indian economy and its stakeholders. This vision is supported by core values such as Trusteeship, where professional managers hold the company in "trust" for its stakeholders;

a strong Customer Focus;
Respect for People; a commitment to Excellence; a pursuit of Innovation; and a strong Nation Orientation.

ITC Infotech's business philosophy is that business is at the center and technology is an enabler, as reflected in its tagline, "Business-friendly Solutions." The company offers a wide range of services and solutions across key business areas, including CIO Services (Automation, Digital Workplace, ERP), Digital Experience (Experience Transformation), and Product 4.0 (Product Lifecycle Management, Digital Manufacturing). In the last seven years, ITC Infotech has successfully doubled its revenue from $250 million to $500 million+ annually, with its EBIT improving from 8% to over 18%.

With this strong growth momentum, ITC Infotech is now embarking on its next journey, known as 'Next Orbit,' with the ambitious goal of reaching $1 billion in annual revenue within the next four years. The Americas region is a critical part of this charter and is expected to increase its contribution to total revenue from the current 35% to a range of 40% to 50%.

Manufacturing is a key vertical for the group and ITC Infotech with BFSI, Retail, CPG, Travel, Transportation & Hospitality being others.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Integration Architect to design, govern, and drive our enterprise integration strategy. In this role, you will be responsible for defining the architectural blueprints, patterns, and roadmaps that connect our diverse ecosystem of internal and external applications.

As a key technical leader, you will champion Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), modern API design, and scalable hybrid-cloud integrations. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product teams, and development leads to ensure our integration solutions are secure, highly scalable, reliable, and perfectly aligned with business objectives.

• Define Enterprise Strategy: Formulate and maintain the enterprise-wide integration strategy, roadmaps, and architectural standards.
• Pattern Definition: Design high-availability, low-latency Integration blueprints focusing on Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Microservices, and API-led connectivity.
• Technology Evaluation: Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of middleware, ESB, iPaaS platforms, and messaging systems.
• Governance & Standards: Establish and enforce best practices, security frameworks, data governance policies, and design patterns across all integration projects.

• End-to-End Design: Create comprehensive architectural designs and interface specifications for complex integrations spanning custom-built .NET Core applications, cloud services, and legacy systems.
• Scalability & Resilience: Ensure all integration architectures meet stringent non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, high availability, disaster recovery, performance, and scalability.
• Modern API Ecosystem: Design reusable API frameworks, microservices architectures, and robust API Gateway/management structures.
• Stakeholder Management: Bridge the gap between business requirements and technical delivery, presenting complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentorship & Code Quality: Provide technical guidance, leadership, and mentorship to Integration Developers and Lead Engineers. Conduct high-level design reviews and quality audits.
• Dev Ops & Delivery: Collaborate with Dev Ops teams to design optimized CI/CD pipelines,…