Senior IT Integration Architect

International Motors has a great opportunity for aSenior IT Integration Architect.

The Senior IT Integration Architect is responsible for the leading the integration architecture and assuring future-oriented integrations of software programs, applications, and third-party solutions to meet the business requirements of the organization. The integration needs are primarily focused on connecting on-premise and cloud-based COTS platforms, as well as custom-developed web and mobile solutions. This individual is also responsible for developing and maintaining an application integration architecture blueprint and roadmap for the organization.

This is a hybrid position based four days per week (Monday-Thursday with Friday optional remote) at our headquarters in Lisle, Illinois and reports to the Associate Director, IT Enterprise Architecture.

• Assure that International’s integration roadmap aligns to the emerging Traton integration architecture future state and wherever possible, to Traton standard technologies and tools.
• Drive integration technology decisions so that solution choices naturally result in integration technology rationalization and modernization.
• Work with technology teams in definition of requirements for integration methods, specific tools and operational performance metrics.
• Provide expert advice to technology teams on use of integration technology, integration modeling, and overall system architecture to embed integration best practices.
• Provide oversight in standards adherence through reviews of detailed technical specifications and application code.
• With positivity, political savvy and tact, lead integration architecture discussions with IT and business colleagues to guide technology designs and decisions.
• Create and maintain International’s documentation for application integration methods, standards and practices that define integration patterns and tools fit to specific architecture types, technology stacks, use cases and COTS applications.
• Establish and maintain an application integration review process that assures standardized and future-oriented integration solutions vs. localized or bespoke solutions.
• Assure the maintenance of commercial and open source integration tools within International’s technology ecosystem, together with the specific standards and procedures applicable to each.
• Assist with incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Partner with Information Security & Risk Management to ensure that integration solutions and their implementations align with security policies and best practices.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, products and best practices that will evolve International’s integration technology posture with modern solutions.
• Indirectly or directly lead internal resources or externally sourced team members.

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 15 years of Information Technology or IT architecture experience
• At least 2 years of lead experience

OR

• Master’s degree
• At least 12 years of Information Technology or IT architecture experience
• At least 2 years of lead experience

OR

• At least 17 years of Information Technology or IT architecture experience
• At least 2 years of lead experience

• Qualified candidates, excluding current employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States. We do not anticipate providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status)

• Deep understanding of “what good looks like” for integration architecture processes, standards and procedures.
• Expert in system integration methods and technologies including Web services, SOAP, JSON, XML Schema Definition (XSD), Extensible Markup Language (XML), etc.
• Experience driving modern integrations where the technology ecosystem includes microservices architectures, API design and implementation, event-based integration, accelerated software development, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD and other modern software engineering and delivery practices
• Deep, hands-on experience designing…