Integration Architect

SUMMARY:
Role within a global IT team to lead integration activities together with other architects, support teams and third party vendors. Also to provide leadership in conducting analysis.

POSITION INFO:

Role Definition

The Integration Architect is responsible for providing both hands-on integration technical capability and taking lead role in establishing integration architecture and its design for the systems managed by Global IT. This includes series of SAP applications, Intapp products, MS SQL DBs, SaaS solutions such as Chrome River, Workday and any other systems currently in the scope of its Global IT solution.

The responsibilities also include interacting with regional IT teams and third parties to facilitates the delivery of integration works in these projects or BAU activities (change requests or incident fixes)

Be the go-to person for all the integration related topics, information and works for Global solution Analyse and deliver solution to integration requirements for projects/BAU works which involves Global systems. Hands on skill to deliver Design, Build, Test and also to lead/review the works delivered by third parties.

• Own and manage integration architecture related artefacts (integration inventory, integration architecture/design, guidelines, integration patterns)
• Do research, plan and lead the work to make proposal of 5 year roadmap of future proof integration to-be model
• Closely work with support / service team, third parties to monitor integration related issues and lead resolution in timely manner (specially production incidents) and take proactive actions

• Ensure compliance with IT Security policies, and participates in security, audit and regulatory initiatives. Reinforce security rules and escalate where risky activity is detected.
• Manage the schedule & timeline of the activities across multiple systems/regions, assess and avoid conflicts and streamline the work efforts and communicate with relevant parties
• Document processes, procedures, and plans, including changes, upgrades, and new integrations
• Closely work with wider teams (Function/Technical team, Architects, Infrastructure team, Security team, Regional IT team) and manage necessary communications and escalations
• Periodically seek feedback from the wider teams (Archtiects, IT leadership) on the integration solution

Key Outputs/Deliverables

This role would be responsible for leading the delivery of integration works in projects and BAU activities

Integration Architecture artefacts

• Integration Inventory
• Integration Architecture High Level Design
• Integration Patterns, Policies and Guideline
• Integration Architecture 5 year roadmap

Project / BAU work artefacts

• Functional Design (Integration specific including mapping design)
• Technical Design
• Build (configuration, coding related to integration)
• Conducting / leading integration Test with providing testing artefacts
• Post Go-live support

Core Skills and Experience required as global solutions are mainly based on SAP, Intapp, MS SQL applications, the role requires an individual with

• A solid background in SAP integrations using SAP PI/PO with at least 3 SAP full implementation experiences to multi-national/regional corporations. Solid SAP PI/PO (7.5) architecture, design/build/test, support/project experiences (certified, ideally)
• Previous experience of supporting integration between SAP and other interfaced applications. Strong SAP support skills, ideally developed through solid experience
• Ability to design/build integrations based on SOAP, REST, JSON, XML
• Capability to handle SFTP, JDBC connections, PGP encryption/decryption, Base64 codification
• Good knowledge of SAP CPI (Cloud Platform Integration) and cloud connectors
• Strong experiences in designing and deliverying integrations between Cloud and On-Premise, Cloud and Cloud, On-premise and On-premise
• Good experience in designing and deliverying integrations in Microsoft Azure
• Experience of working in offshore model (third party vendors being offshore), cross-culturally and cross -functionally, and ability to adapt personal style to different environments;
• Pro-active collaboration and stakeholder management will be second nature and a core strength. Ability to influence internal departments in order to obtain co-operation;
• Experience of working in a fast paced environment with demanding deadlines and a desire to deliver to milestones would be a distinct advantage.
• Knowledge and experience with integration performance tuning, troubleshooting, go live support

• Interacting with various other teams (including 3rd party vendors) during system build and implementation process
• Experience in reviewing statement of work, RFP’s for technical tool/ solution selection, projects from integration perspective
• ITIL v3 Foundation would be an advantage
• Experience with S4/HANA would also be beneficial
• Experienced and technically proficient with the following SAP/3rd party components:
• ERP 6.0 EHP 8 (ECC 6.0) on Hana
• SAP FIORI Gateway
• BW 7.5 on Hana
• Process Orchestration 7.5
• Business Objects (BOBJ/BODS 4.2)
• Netweaver Java 7.4 with Redwood BPA
• Solution Manager 7.1/7.2
• Intapp Open o Workday (SaaS)
• Chrome River (SaaS)

Nice to have skills & experience

• knowledge of Intapp Integrate (aka Integration Builder) and IIS (based on Dell Boomi)
• knowledge of MS SQL integration (SSIS)
• Experiences in designing and implementing market leading ESB solutions such as Mulesoft, Dell Boomi, Web Sphere
• Demonstrable experience of working in an agile development environment
• S4/HANA implementation