Senior Integration Architect

Swagelok is a global organization and one of the largest employers of manufacturing talent in Northeast Ohio.  We are driven by our core values of Quality, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Customer Focus, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement, which are demonstrated through our daily actions. For over 75 years, our dedication to our core values has been the foundation for our success.  

Our products have been up into space, down to the bottom of the ocean, and everywhere in between. That same dedication spans to our customers. Throughout our organization we demonstrate a commitment to these values and those we bring onboard. Whether you want to grow in your role or explore broad opportunities and develop new skills—you’ll thrive in a culture that promotes learning and development.

We strive to be a company where we all can do our best work with a true sense of purpose and belonging.  Be Connected. Be Valued. Be You.  We hope you’ll consider joining our team. The Integration Architect leads the architecture of the shared technology capabilities the organization builds on, including cloud and platform services, integration, identity, and data. This role sets the principles, standards, and reference architectures that span solutions, owns the enterprise technology roadmap and lifecycle, and is accountable for the coherence, cost, and risk posture of the technology portfolio over time.

The Integration Architect exercises significant organizational influence and shapes the technology investment decisions leadership makes.

Job Responsibilities Architecture Development Produces enterprise architecture, including target state models, reference architectures, and the architecturally significant decisions that span multiple solutions.

Designs shared and cross-cutting capabilities used across solutions, including cloud and platform services, engaging directly in solution architecture where those decisions are duces integration architecture and owns integration platforms, defining how systems connect and exchange data across the organization.

Shapes enterprise security, identity, and resilience posture as an architectural input, in partnership with Enterprise Security.

Owns the technical planning approach for enterprise initiatives, and ensures the right technical expertise is engaged where domains and solutions intersect.

Builds reference implementations and proofs of concept that prove enterprise patterns before they are adopted broadly.

Continuity and Alignment Keeps enterprise target architecture stable, viable, and consistently applied as platforms, solutions, and vendors change.

Decides on exceptions to enterprise architecture direction, and removes structural obstacles that constrain more than one solution or domain.

Standards and Principles Sets enterprise architecture principles, standards, and practices that align technology decisions with business direction.

Defines enterprise position on make versus buy, platform and vendor selection, and vendor concentration.

Sets architecture methods, tools, and documentation standards used across the architecture practice, and embeds them into how technology change is planned and delivered.

Sets enterprise integration patterns and interface standards, and defines the contracts that govern how systems exchange data.

Strategy, Capability and Roadmaps Translates business direction into technology capabilities, and owns the enterprise technology roadmap and lifecycle, determining what is invested in, sustained, consolidated, and retired.

Sets enterprise position on emerging technologies, including AI and automation capabilities, proving them where warranted and determining the conditions under which they are adopted.

Trade-offs and Decisions Captures and…