What Does An Integration Architect Do?

WHAT DOES AN INTEGRATION ARCHITECT DO?

Published: Oct 02, 2025 - The Integration Architect develops and governs integration architecture processes, ensuring compliance, sustainability, and alignment with enterprise standards. This role leads the team in maintaining effective integration patterns, supports middleware capability planning, and drives the design and implementation of integration solutions across products. The architect also engages with business units to understand requirements, proposes improvements with clear value and risk analysis, and provides leadership in resolving cross-program issues while promoting enterprise architecture best practices.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Integration Architect

1. Integration Architect Duties

Integration Training: Ensure completion of necessary training and certifications on integration middleware
Concept Development: Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos, etc, for new growth areas and solve new customer problems based on market and customer research
Thought Leadership: Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on digital integration by writing white papers, blogs, etc.
Market Recognition: Help in attaining market recognition through analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits
Team Mentoring: Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects in the project for their further career development and enhancement
Practice Contribution: Contribute to the integration practice by conducting selection interviews, etc.
Talent Planning: Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/industry trends or client requirements
Talent Acquisition: Support in hiring adequate and right resources for the team through conducting interviews
Onboarding Training: Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability and effectiveness
Performance Management: Provide inputs to the project manager in setting appraisal objectives for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports

2. Integration Architect Details

Integration Development: Actively drive the integration-development of E.ON’s digital enterprise architecture in areas such as API Management and Application Integration
Requirement Analysis: Identify and analyze business requirements to design integration scenarios for various Use Cases across the whole E.ON Group
Architecture Design: Be responsible for the architecture design for the implementation of API management and application integration solutions in the context of national and international projects
System Integration: Integrate systems and services based on a portfolio of integration solutions and integration standards
Solution Review: Review and analyze solution designs and development to ensure that group standards are met and the design fits into the overall integration architecture
Architect Alignment: Work closely together and align with platform and enterprise architects to ensure that each integration scenario follows API governance and strategy
Stakeholder Consulting: Consult stakeholders and development teams on complex integration scenarios based on MuleSoft
Workshop Facilitation: Chair meetings and facilitate workshops, also for executive audiences, and communicate business matters

3. Integration Architect Responsibilities

Solution Architecture: Design, develop and maintain project integration solution architectures and provide expertise and advice to stakeholders
Risk Management: Highlighting technology dependencies, issues and risks
Discovery Workshops: Run integration discovery and solution workshops with stakeholders
Integration Leadership: Act as the lead MuleSoft Integration architect
Architecture Contribution: Participate in architecture forums and community of practice meetings and contribute to the overall integration practice
Requirement Analysis: Analyses business requirements, business processes, and technical architectures
Solution Design: Designs and uses them as the basis for the Software Engineering solution
Methodology Advisory: Defines and analyzes Software Engineering methods and advises on best-fit solutions and techniques
Tool Expertise: Develops expertise in Software Engineering Tools, Software Engineering Environment configuration and management, and Software Engineering Data Management

4. Integration Architect Job Summary

Trend Awareness: Keeps up to date with trends, roadmaps, and developments in all areas of Software Engineering
Practice Development: Contributes to/develops good practice in Software Engineering techniques
Productivity Improvement: Applies productivity improvement techniques within the Software Architecture strategy
Validation Expertise: Develops expertise in verification and validation at all stages of the delivery lifecycle
Solution Proposal: Proposes technical solutions that meet or exceed client needs and expectations and complement the delivery of Capgemini's SLAs
Requirement Synthesis: Synthesizes multiple requirements, ideas and solutions to manage complexity and deliver synergies
Solution Articulation: Articulates the proposed solution and benefits accurately and persuasively, reflecting the client's interests or concerns
Cost Estimation: Estimates maintenance costs that are realistic, based on effort required, value delivered, and the client's expectations
Strategy Alignment: Ensures that the solution aligns with the Capgemini Group strategy

5. Integration Architect Accountabilities

Process Management: Develop, implement and execute processes for the definition, maintenance and conformance management of the integration architecture
Environment Oversight: Update and oversee the Environment Management team, ensuring that the right integration patterns are maintained within the middleware
Middleware Support: Support the Environment Management team in understanding and elaborating on the capabilities of the middleware platform
Solution Implementation: Prepare and oversee the implementation of integration solutions between the products in scope using pre-defined capabilities of the integration platform
Platform Improvement: Propose improvements to the integration platform, present them both internally and to the customer with clear value analysis, presenting all relevant architecture risks and mitigations
Business Engagement: Set up and maintain contacts with business units to understand business activities, drivers, and requirements
Solution Strategy: Consider solution strategies and alternatives for possible implementation, and establish appropriate information system programs
Architectural Leadership: Provide architectural leadership in the resolution of inter-program and inter-project issues and advise management, business areas, etc.
Architecture Promotion: Create awareness, promote and communicate the enterprise architecture within the “Technology” division and other business units
Trend Research: Continuously research and assess new analysis approaches for potential use, and provide recommendations and subject matter expertise regarding trends, technology, tools and services
Compliance Management: Check compliance within the enterprise architecture and reinforce adherence to standards, policies, procedures, etc.

6. Integration Architect Functions

Requirement Analysis: Analyze business needs and define detailed requirements based on business outcomes
Solution Design: Ensure holistic solution design, making sure that cross-functional considerations are incorporated into the functional and technical design specifications, focusing on strategic business capabilities and requirements
Stakeholder Coordination: Identify and coordinate with stakeholder technical teams to ensure the delivery of a holistic solution design
Solution Communication: Create and communicate solution overviews and alternatives to technical and business leaders to foster understanding of solution direction and to gain consensus support of the recommended solution approach
Risk Education: Educate stakeholders on application architecture risks to influence change that supports business and IT strategies
Business Case Development: Collaborate to develop and present business cases for the IT investment strategy needed to support the application architecture road map
Approach Development: Develop solutions/approaches, including new processes and policy changes, new system capabilities and/or configurations, partnering with the business community, and recommending potential alternatives
Specification Validation: Create and review functional and technical specifications and validate design/development specifications with technical development teams
Strategy Alignment: Ensure solutions are aligned with application strategies and identify opportunities, challenges, and a migration road map to support strategies
Skill Development: Take the initiative to learn and develop new skills and stay current on new and emerging technologies

7. Integration Architect Job Description

Integration Landscape: Partner with IT architects and external consultants to define an overarching integration data hub landscape to deliver data integration initiatives
Application Design: Document major applications design which can provide high data quality, efficient data transfer, faster data processing, lower application maintenance and agile solution delivery
Data Integration: Implement flexible data integration solutions to integrate disparate data sources using real-time, near-real-time and batch data integrations using API, Enterprise Service Bus and ETL/ELT platforms
Scalable Architecture: Design scalable patterns and architecture to support both batch and near-real-time, and real-time data products and platforms using big data technologies
API Design: Design and document APIs aligned to the API lead, data-centric Integration Data Hub
Data Quality: Understand business rules and data complexities to enforce data quality control for transactional and master data delivery with appropriate data delivery performance
Workshop Leadership: Lead discovery workshops, mapping out multiple integration technology solution requirements, leveraging internal and external data sources to provide best practice guidelines
Standards Contribution: Contribute to the direction, road map, and standards for functional, process and technical data integration solutions
Platform Delivery: Partner with functional and technical teams throughout the company to define, design and deliver a robust integration data platform integrated with transactional systems, master data management systems and business data warehouse solutions that meet business needs
Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot and resolve integration performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, connectivity issues, security issues, etc.
Program Metrics: Provide program and support metrics to the business, identifying projects in the queue, prioritization, cost, ROI, resources and timeline required to complete the project
Technology Recommendation: Recommend technologies that will enhance current data integration solutions to meet ever-expanding corporate and business goals
Innovation Guidance: Guide the continuous innovation of the integration hub

8. Integration Architect Overview

Pre-Sales Leadership: Work in stand-alone mode on technical pre-sale activity and lead it
Capability Assessment: Identify gaps in delivery capabilities and propose solutions to overcome them
Candidate Evaluation: Conduct interviews with candidates for the Architect position
Architecture Guidance: Provide guidance for the most complex or mission-critical aspects of the architecture
Technology Evaluation: Find and evaluate emerging technologies
Microservices Expertise: Hands-on and up-to-date experience with the microservices technology domain
Knowledge Sharing: Initiates and arranges business domain-specific knowledge sharing/training for the project team, acts as trainer
Process Improvement: Proactively analyze and measure current processes and practices and suggest/drive improvements to time to market/quality/cost
KPI Utilization: Utilize metrics and KPI to make decisions and track project risks
Risk Management: Provide timely input of risks and issues, impacting quality, schedule, or resources, and recommend effective mitigation plans
Content Development: Develop work instructions, training, white-papers, and case studies

9. Integration Architect Details and Accountabilities

Integration Liaison: Primary point of contact with technical and business partners and software development teams for all systems integration solutions
Strategy Planning: Active strategy and roadmap planning of KES enterprise data integration leveraging REST APIs, Enterprise Service Bus, ETL/ELT tools, etc.
Design Documentation: Designs are documented in Azure DevOps
Agile Participation: Take part in sprint planning and execution, as part of an agile product team
Decision Challenge: Challenge technological and architectural decisions to help better understand and improve systems
Technology Growth: Grow and develop in modern technologies, while possessing the drive and ability to support legacy software
Task Coordination: Prioritize, organize, and coordinate simultaneous tasks/projects
Technology Experimentation: Experiment with new technologies and solutions, identifying ways use technology to create superior value for the customers

10. Integration Architect Tasks

Strategic Planning: Provides strategic thinking, solutions, and roadmaps
Architecture Design: Designs and develops IT architecture solutions that are in alignment with enterprise architecture direction and standards
Technical Planning: Performs technical planning, architecture development, and modification of specifications
Compatibility Assessment: Assesses the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies
Standards Establishment: Assists with establishing information technology standards and practices that are designed to ensure optimum scalability, compatibility, interoperability, and security
Systems Definition: Develops technical, tactical, and strategic plans, systems definition, and feasibility determination
System Integration: Performs a system integration role by determining which software, hardware, and networking components best fit with the system to be designed
Middleware Adoption: Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques, and common practices on middleware technologies and services
Project Guidance: Provide guidance and subject matter expertise to complex projects
Capability Development: Lead design and development to build integration capabilities by applying code, software engineering, and development skills
Pattern Design: Design and develop new integration architecture patterns, APIs, event/message-based integrations using modern cloud native technologies
Future Modeling: Design for an efficient and adaptable future state model to meet growing demand for integrations
Insight Provision: Provide critical insights, identify critical interdependencies, scope overlap, risks, resource constraints, etc.
Innovation Contribution: Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas
Mentorship Support: Coach/mentor junior developers on design and development

11. Integration Architect Roles

Process Improvement: Ensure improvement of all architectural processes and compliance with any integration
Architect Support: Provide support to other architects (e.g., Microservice Architect, Data Architect, etc) to integrate with other end-customer systems, such as Payment GW
Integration Finalization: Assist in the finalization of all systems integration points and provide support to various onshore stakeholders
Requirement Analysis: Analyze integration requirements, work on a high-level plan and estimate, and maintain all architecture, business systems, and documents
Development Guidance: Provide guidance to all development teams to maintain standard interfaces/integrations
Stakeholder Management: Manage all communication with onshore IT and business stakeholders, other SMEs and architects from systems to be integrated with
Knowledge Transfer: Passes on the information/knowledge to the offshore team
Installation Support: Provide support during the installation of LTTS deliverables and integrations thereof
Program Design: Design various integration programs and prepare the required documents for the same and execute various integration platforms
Metrics Analysis: Analyze metrics and measure the effectiveness of integrations, assist customers in all integration processes and design various architecture programs for all application layers

12. Integration Architect Additional Details

Requirement Analysis: Analyze all integration requirements and maintain all architecture, business systems, and documents
Solution Modernization: Modernize and design integration solutions according to current and future technologies to improve overall system performance
Infrastructure Coordination: Interacting with the infrastructure team to meet requirements for volume and performance
Data Alignment: Working with data architects to ensure the integration solution meets data delivery and quality SLAs
Program Design: Design various integration programs and prepare the required documents for the same and execute various integration platforms
Customer Support: Assist customers in all integration processes and design various architecture programs for all application layers
Strategy Execution: Execute Enterprise Data and System Integration Strategy
Strategic Consultation: Collaborate with Business areas and cross-functional Enterprise Architects to fully understand business needs and provide strategic consultation and translate requirements into solution architecture and design roadmap
Team Collaboration: Partner with developers, architects, other technical team members and database administrators to design and develop high-performing data solutions and maintain consistent development functions
Legacy Direction: Initiatives and provide tactical direction, as well as provide architecture considerations on legacy solutions

13. Integration Architect Essential Functions

System Maintenance: Maintains, monitors and troubleshoots technical systems that are associated with providing critical patient care
Project Leadership: Leads, plans, prioritizes and coordinates scheduled projects that require interaction between various customer and Information Technology departments and hardware/software vendors
Project Planning: Develops well-defined project plans, work schedules and critical path timelines
Team Leadership: Works competently as a team project leader of the department or project teams
Team Collaboration: Promotes teamwork by involving others, delegating assignments and encouraging them to contribute their strengths to the team
Process Design: Compiles professional, well-thought-out designs to very complex technical processes for presentation to Senior Level Management
Technical Expertise: Be responsible for providing technical expertise and resolution to complex and multifaceted problems for customers residing in a variety of departments
Feasibility Studies: Leads or participates in feasibility studies, RFI development and capital budget planning
Technology Advisory: Provides technical information regarding current and future industry concepts, hardware, and software
Infrastructure Ownership: Be responsible for selected infrastructure applications or systems

14. Integration Architect Role Purpose

Informatica Expertise: Provide expertise and architecture with Informatica (IDQ, IICS, Powercenter), interfacing with AWS components, including Redshift and AWS RDS
Architectural Strategy: Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains
Project Leadership: Lead projects within architecture
Requirement Analysis: Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features
Data Migration: Work with app services and infrastructure teams to orchestrate a very large data migration effort
Estimation Planning: Project and solution estimation and team structure definition
POC Development: Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions
Agile Support: Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production
Dependency Resolution: Liaise with the offshore team and clients for resolving technical dependencies, issues, and risks
Team Mentorship: Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications
Vision Alignment: Drive common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams
Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions
Technical Strategy: Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs

15. Integration Architect General Responsibilities

Architecture Deliverables: Be responsible for Integration and Architecture deliverables
As-Is Preparation: Prepare the as-is architecture by coordinating Affiliate and Roche Operations team input
To-Be Definition: Drive the definition of the to-be architecture (incl. replacement, decommissioning and remediation decisions)
Architecture Validation: Validate the to-be architecture with the Technology and Architecture Service Team
Solution Approval: Provide sign-off for solution strategy, plans, architecture and decisions
IT Partnership: Work as a true partner with the affiliate IT lead to find solutions to architectural and technical inconsistencies and challenges
Integration Planning: Prepare integration scope and plan (including resource estimate)
Solution Design: Design integration solution architecture (e.g., high-level design)
Change Management: Identify and create change requests related to the systems/integrations and inform R&D Squad Leads
Team Leadership: Lead/coach the integration team in the delivery of the to-be architecture
SME Collaboration: Act as a counterpart to the affiliate IT and integration SMEs
Resource Coordination: Identify architecture and integration resource needs (in R&D resource pool, in affiliate, or in the program) and coordinate their involvement
Deployment Supervision: Supervise, during the deployment phase, that integration changes correspond to the affiliate requirements
Defect Resolution: Review defects during testing and offer architectural solutions
Cutover Planning: Design integration part within the cutover strategy and plan sequence of ramp-up, ramp-down of systems, leading to go-live
Security Compliance: Liaise with the Environment manager to ensure security compliance of all solutions implemented at the affiliate

16. Integration Architect Key Accountabilities

Solution Design: Design and oversee end-to-end solutions with a detailed focus on integrations so that they are successfully implemented
Requirement Evaluation: Work closely with architects, business analysts and project managers/scrum masters to evaluate business requirements and turn them into end-to-end integrated solutions
Integration Consultancy: Support global and regional integration, provide consultancy for local integrations
Team Coordination: Coordinate the different, mostly technical teams (eg, Mulesoft team, data team, vendor technical team, BAs, etc.)
Specification Input: Provide input into “Integration Requirement Specification” and “Integration Solution Architecture”
Requirement Consultation: Consult teams on gathering and documenting integration requirements
Architecture Proposal: Propose a solution and integration architecture and contribute to the general architecture landscape
Reusable Delivery: Deliver reusable and scalable integrations, challenge not optimal solutions
NFR Definition: Drive the definition of non-functional requirements (eg, monitoring, performance, security, data privacy)

17. Integration Architect Roles and Details

Requirement Gathering: Gathers, understands and clarifies complex business requirements
Data Modeling: Design, develop and maintain an enterprise data model to guide and direct system integration between platforms
Asset Design: Design reusable assets, components, standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate API and integration projects
Technical Advisory: Advise technical teams on performance, scalability, reliability, monitoring and other operational concerns of integration solutions on Anypoint Platform
Standards Adherence: Ensures that the self and the development team adhere to documented design and development patterns and standards
Environment Support: Supports the integration environment and business-critical integration solutions
Solution Architecture: Develops and maintains Enterprise Integration Solution Architecture
Developer Mentorship: Provides mentoring on advanced development concepts and technical capabilities to developers
Knowledge Sharing: Works closely with other Technical Leadership, Solution Architects/Designers to ensure consistency and quality of solutions and knowledge sharing
Standards Contribution: Contributes to the development and maintenance of IT enterprise architecture standards and practices by maintaining an understanding of current and future technology developments
Asset Identification: Identify, in collaboration with Enterprise and functional area architects, existing IT software assets for new opportunities through project and program involvement
Stakeholder Relations: Act within agreed authority levels to ensure fair treatment of project/program stakeholders and provide quality customer relations to business and IT partners
Process Improvement: Provide feedback and recommendations for improvement of processes and systems to management

18. Integration Architect Responsibilities and Key Tasks

Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership for CI/CD processes, design implementation and process orchestration
Best Practices: Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
Standardization Tools: Create standards and tools that enable faster delivery of software features with governance enforcement of coding and test standards
Cloud Migration: Support the migration of on-premise systems to AWS
Performance Assurance: Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
Cloud Management: Managing cloud environments in accordance with customers' security guidelines
Incident Resolution: Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
Team Education: Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives
Problem Solving: Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity

19. Integration Architect Duties and Roles

Technical Consulting: Provide technical consulting for project teams and emergency operational support for integration platforms and solutions as a subject matter expert
Solution Exploration: Partner with IT teams to explore technical solutions to novel and challenging integration problems
Solution Development: Design and develop new solutions in conjunction with IT project teams according to standards and to meet the need for reliable enterprise data movement according to requirements
Optimization Initiatives: Identify and execute optimization and efficiency initiatives to improve reliability and reduce the cost of new and existing integration solutions across platforms, including Mulesoft, ActiveMQ, Azure Data Factory, GoAnywhere, Informatica, and AWS Lambda
Documentation Development: Create and maintain onboarding documentation, training materials, and development standards for new and existing data integration technologies
Training Delivery: Build and execute training programs for new developers across integration platforms and teams
Template Development: Develop accelerator and standardization shared templates to increase solution standardization and improve the time to market for solution development
Pattern Documentation: Create and maintain data integration patterns documentation and use cases to facilitate proper utilization of technology across the enterprise
Coding Standards: Establish integration coding standards and socialize with corporate and stream IT teams
Technology Evangelism: Evangelize appropriate utilization of integration technologies with IT teams according to integration patterns and standards
Code Governance: Generate assurance through code review and governance processes that solutions are developed according to standards and can be operated reliably by enterprise resources
Resource Screening: Technical screening of supplemental and contract labor resources
Collaboration Building: Establish and maintain effective, collaborative working relationships with business and IT teams

20. Integration Architect Duties

Task Delivery: Be responsible for the delivery of assigned tasks within the delivery cycle of a project
Business Analysis: Participate in Business Analysis Processes, Process Flows Design, Requirements Gathering, developing functional and technical documentation and testing activities
Documentation Management: Be responsible for creating and maintaining the Data Mapping Workbook, Process Visio Flow, Interface Control Document, or Business Requirement Document
Independent Execution: Works with minimal direction from the Technical Lead, Scrum Master and with customer-nominated representatives to accomplish assigned tasks
Solution Contribution: Contributes to design for specific deliverables and assists in the development of technical solutions
Team Collaboration: Participates as part of a team and maintains good relationships with team members and customers
Testing Support: Participate in Integration Testing and UAT Call, prepare test cases and share the same with the customer
Requirement Analysis: Ensures that requirements received from business stakeholders for development of new products/modules or enhancements to existing products are properly analyzed, documented, and communicated
Go-Live Coordination: Coordinate with multiple teams to ensure smooth Go-live activities
Knowledge Reuse: Uses knowledge tools and reuses information for the benefit of projects and of professional development
Data Integration: Covers the data integration, databases, CMDB and the means to receive the data

21. Integration Architect Details

Integration Design: Analysing and designing Integration with a layered domain architecture to meet information technology and business requirements
Standards Establishment: Establish integration and data standards, assist in developing a secure, scalable governance and operating model
Requirement Transformation: Understand and transform business requirements into scalable and manageable solutions and design specifications
High-Level Design: Create the high-level design of integration solutions and guide implementation teams on the choice of components and patterns to use in the detailed design and implementation
Deployment Selection: Select the deployment approach and configuration of Anypoint Platform with any of the available deployment options
Lifecycle Application: Apply standard development methods covering the full development lifecycle (project preparation, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and support) to ensure solution quality
Operational Advisory: Advise technical teams on performance, scalability, reliability, monitoring and other operational concerns over integration solutions on the live platforms
Framework Design: Design standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate API and integration projects
Pattern Adherence: Ensures teams adhere to documented design and development patterns and standards
Solution Standards: Defines standards to guide solution decisions in relation to integration for the enterprise
Knowledge Sharing: Works closely with other Solution Architecture/Designers to ensure consistency and quality of solutions and knowledge sharing

22. Integration Architect Responsibilities

Customer Support: Support customers' corporate units in their journey by understanding business needs and business goals
Stakeholder Collaboration: Working closely with all stakeholders such as Technology Sponsors, business representatives, architects, product owners, developers, and testers
Business Insight: Obtain a holistic view of business data and business processes
Architecture Views: Create different architectural views for IT solutions
Documentation Management: Create and update architectural documentation like SAD, Solution assessments, risk analysis, and architectural plans
Strategy Implementation: Implement IT strategies into the solutions
Technical Guidance: Provide technical guidance to development and maintenance teams
Design Guidelines: Produce and implement guidelines for the design and development

23. Integration Architect Job Summary

Stakeholder Interface: Interface with key stakeholders and apply technical proficiency across different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle, including requirements elicitation, architecture definition and design, solution implementation and roll out
Technology Advisory: Play an advisory role to clients by providing technology consultancy, including problem definition, discovery, solution blueprint, and product/technology evaluation
Feasibility Governance: Driving feasibility PoC, solution recommendation, architecture definition and governance
RFI/RFP Support: Participate in RFI and RFP response preparation from a technical/architecture perspective
Estimation Leadership: Drive estimations and collateral consolidation, bring in alliance product offering/IPs to provide technical leadership and technical differentiation
Architecture Review: Review architectural decisions, architecture solutions, and re-engineer architectures to meet project requirements
Solution Development: Define, plan and develop solutions, frameworks, IPs, etc. around Telecom O/BSS domain
Framework Evangelism: Evangelize the usage of reusable frameworks and artifacts
Knowledge Creation: Create knowledge/certification artifacts and an evaluation criteria guide
Team Guidance: Guide the team technically and work closely with the offshore team, acting as a communication medium between the client and the offshore team.

24. Integration Architect Accountabilities

Design Promotion: Promote team use of design principles and guidelines, reference architectures, integration technologies, standards and reusable assets that meet security, compliance and business requirements
Best Practices: Assist development teams with the adoption and implementation of best practices using modern design tools and automation to achieve data migration and integration in support of major projects and integration initiatives
Architect Collaboration: Collaborate with ERP Architects, Data Architects, other architect roles and Technical Leads to ensure optimal integration solution architecture and design for IT projects
Reference Architecture: Develop integration reference architectures based on proven integration patterns to ensure loosely coupled and resilient integration
Technical Execution: Drive and coordinate the technical execution of shared enterprise integration services
Architecture Governance: Develop, maintain and govern the integration architecture's current state, artifacts of the IT enterprise
Standards Management: Assist the Enterprise Architect in managing exceptions to integration standards at the enterprise IT level
Technology Research: Research emerging technologies in support of integration architecture efforts and recommend processes and technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and integration capabilities
Thought Leadership: Provide integration architecture thought leadership for highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains
Knowledge Development: Identify ways to increase employee knowledge and skills to support future growth
Team Training: Train/Re-train team members on integration concepts and technology as it evolves, including upgrades, changes in potential design, architecture, etc.

25. Integration Architect Functions

Integration Strategy: Define the strategy for integration, including event sourcing, real-time API, ETL, and other patterns
Team Partnership: Partner with business teams and engineering teams to understand needs, outcomes, and constraints
Solution Blueprinting: Produce solution options and blueprints to enable the realization of those specific outcomes
Reusable Assets: Create and maintain reusable building blocks proven through POC and working code
API Governance: Specify, publish and govern API standards in line with the Enterprise-wide standards for security and data
Architectural Direction: Create an unambiguous architectural direction for the integration team in alignment with the Enterprise's ambition and strategy
Operational Consideration: Consideration for operational concerns when creating solutions (monitoring, logging, deployment)
Code Review: Conduct code reviews with the team to ensure the architectural intent has been realized
Architecture Validation: Conduct benchmarking/sizing and viability exercises via PoC to ensure the proposed architecture is fit for purpose, operationally sound, and appropriate for the problems solving
Continuous Improvement: Continuous improvement of the architecture and implementation through an ongoing exploration of industry standards and technology and tooling advancements
Team Leadership: Grow, lead and continually mentor the team through a complex, multi-phased implementation of the architecture, providing hands-on delivery guidance throughout
Career Support: Support the career aspirations of team members, providing continual mentoring and guidance
Talent Recruitment: Recruit the best and continually nurture the team to achieve high performance
Objective Clarity: Ensure team members clearly understand what is important through the definition of objectives
Career Development: Encourage team member development and career progression
Learning Culture: Encourage a culture of learning and curiosity

26. Integration Architect Job Description

Business Alignment: Understand the BDO business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes
Integration Leadership: Design and lead the implementation of an application integration architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements
Architecture Management: Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with fellow architects who manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative
Data Strategy: Contribute to data strategy (structured and unstructured) and architecture for managing enterprise data while adhering to data governance principles and data quality best practices
Data Mapping: Define data mapping and design data/application integrations
Integration Strategy: Define, document, and maintain an enterprise IT Integrations strategy and model to join up critical information across applications, data, and technology
Application Architecture: Develop and maintain an application integration architecture for applications
Schema Design: Build and define good data schemas and integration content (payload structure, format, API)
API Lifecycle: Manage deprecation, end of life, retirement and migration of APIs, Objects and Fields provided by 3rd parties

27. Integration Architect Overview

Solution Architecture: Architect and design highly scalable, available, secure, and elastic integration solutions that implement industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies
Cloud Solutions: Build resilient and cloud-ready solutions based on Micro Services, Multi-tenancy architecture using IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, IIB/ACE, MuleSoft, DataPower or APIC tools and platforms, and own responsibility for the quality of software solutions
Requirement Management: Manage diverse requirements, negotiate, and effectively articulate rationale and vision behind technical decisions that support the business
Solution Research: Research, analyze and recommend solutions that meet business and technology needs
Code Development: Conduct Hands-on development and code review for key features and interfaces
Lifecycle Control: Maintain control over architecture throughout the entire software development lifecycle by continuously making critical adjustments to the architecture to ensure results
Proposal Support: Support proposal efforts, providing solution alternatives along with cost and effort estimates
Team Leadership: Lead technical teams to deliver integration solutions within scope, on time and within budget

28. Integration Architect Details and Accountabilities

Project Design: Design and validate customer integration projects for all regional Digital Health and Alcon Vision Suite installations
Team Management: Manage technical team engagement and escalations
Process Improvement: Identify, evaluate, and support opportunities to improve processes, systems and initiatives critical to DHS's success
Project Reporting: Document and report new installation integration project status, post execution analysis, and feedback on improvement opportunities
Alignment Management: Maintain alignment between the internal project teams, customer and external resources
Customer Support: Support customers with installation and post-installation integration, change management, issues and escalations
Concept Communication: Explain complex concepts to Senior Leaders, product experts, and customers
Project Management: Proven project management experience in complex environments
Customer Management: Manage all aspects of customer service, customer satisfaction, and contractual commitments

29. Integration Architect Tasks

Integration Design: Develop technical designs and technology roadmaps for application integration.
Architecture Analysis: Accountable for analyzing and designing the Integration and Interoperability domain architecture to meet the information technology and business requirements.
Technology Standards: Establish integration technology standards, processes (ensure compliance) and operationalization of the integration solutions, assist in developing a secure, scalable governance and operating model which includes assessment of new applications and technologies to be integrated, protocols to support, and underlying infrastructure components to execute on.
Requirement Transformation: Understands and transforms business requirements into scalable/manageable solution architecture and design specifications.
Solution Design: Create the high-level design of integration solutions and guide implementation teams on the choice of Integration Platform components and patterns to use in the detailed design and implementation.
Technical Advisory: Advise technical teams on performance, scalability, reliability, monitoring and other operational concerns of solutions on the Integration Platform.
Standards Definition: Defines standards to guide solution decisions in relation to integration for the enterprise.
Prototype Development: Creates prototypes and authoring detailed interaction specifications.
Collaboration Support: Works closely with other Solution Architecture/Designers to ensure consistency and quality of solutions and knowledge sharing.
Continuous Improvement: Provides Continuous improvement and exploration of industry standards and technology advances.
Requirement Gathering: Gathers, understands and clarifies complex business requirements.
Expert Engagement: Work directly with external Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to help ensure platforms and projects are successful.
Strategic Leadership: Hold meetings to review strategic goals and initiatives, promote team building and work to provide growth paths for staff.
Technology Execution: Participate in, lead and help execute on the overall Integration Technology.

30. Integration Architect Roles

SAP Landscape Management: Manage and sustain the current SAP ERP landscape while sunsetting ECC and transitioning to S4 deployment
S4HANA Implementation: Implementation and support of SAP S4Hana and SAP S4HANA ecosystem (including Ariba, IBP, ME/MII, Cloud integration) to enhance the client's business functionality and overall performance, while maintaining a high degree of quality
Technical Architecture: Manage Technical architecture analysis, research, design and development of new functionality, integration with key applications and services under SAP ecosystems and data migration from legacy systems (SAP and Non-SAP)
Engagement Delivery: Lead the delivery of complex SAP S/4HANA engagements focused on transformations, and engage with key stakeholders and strategic partners to identify and validate requirements and translate them to solution design
Implementation Expertise: Be responsible for the successful implementation of S/4HANA, including providing functional and integration expertise, guidance, presentation, and instruction on SAP products to the business
Requirement Analysis: Collect business requirements and translate them to system requirements with the ability to identify gaps, issues, and workaround solutions
Team Building: Build cross-functional/technical teams through troubleshooting, including investigating, analyzing, and solving software problems and mapping business requirements, processes and objectives
Product Modification: Develops necessary product modifications to satisfy clients' needs
Solution Design: Build the design team to develop, configure and implement the solution as per the product development standards to meet business requirements
Standards Compliance: Monitor the work of the technical team and ensure standards are adhered to in accordance with SAP’s Solution Extensions
Technical Integrity: Ensure technical integrity of projects, making sure that common technical elements are leveraged
Quality Assurance: Work with and advise the QA team on the design of test plans, test cases and automation
Product Strategy: Participate in the product roadmap and product strategy definition
Documentation Support: Help and review with the creation of training, product, and solution documentation

31. Integration Architect Additional Details

Technical Leadership: Providing technical leadership and assuming overall accountability across the integration solution landscape
Vendor Management: Reviewing and challenging vendor on their proposed solutions, managing design issues and providing revisions and dealing with escalations
Architecture Collaboration: Regular interaction and effective collaboration with the customer's architecture team, involvement in the Solution Architecture Design process for solutions and services as part of the customer's enterprise solution portfolio
Governance Leadership: Lead from the front in all architecture and solution governance and other related meetings
Solution Uptime: Ensure integration solution uptime and standards as per the agreed Architecture and Design Services
Knowledge Management: Maintain the Knowledge Repository for relevant architecture and design documentation relating to the integration landscape
Standards Delivery: Deliver to the customers the architecture standards for documentation and technology
Process Support: Support the processes, standards and tools to enable system integration development and support

32. Integration Architect Essential Functions

Platform Responsibility: Be responsible for the Sika MuleSoft Integration Platform (SikaMIP), leveraging integration capabilities and Sika Security, Data Privacy and Compliance standards
Integration Conceptualization: Work with Business Executives, Applications Specialists and Regional IT Managers to conceptualize new enterprise applications integrations
Strategy Design: Design integration strategies and pattern designs and convert them into technical solutions
Lifecycle Alignment: Align with the architects of applications involved in an integration throughout the entire lifecycle, ensuring the reliability of documentation and end-to-end processes, e.g., change management and incident management
Stakeholder Guidance: Guide Project Managers, IT Managers, and Business stakeholders in terms of architectural and integration questions
Integration Review: Lead integration reviews of proposed solutions to ensure strategic and architectural alignment
Component Selection: Drive the selection process for next-generation integration components and solutions
Architecture Design: Design integration of architecture with existing systems, and plan for future scaling
Modeling Integration: Identify and model the current integration architecture, such as application/data model, to translate into a consolidated API for operational and internal services

33. Integration Architect Role Purpose

Integration Environment: Be responsible for the planning, design, build, testing, monitoring, documenting, and development of the integration environment
Integration Security: Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of the organization’s integrations using a variety of tools and platforms
System Analysis: Conduct project research, analyze current system design and make adjustments to the API environment in accordance with established change control practices
Technology Research: Stay abreast of technological advances in emerging software applications through training, research and analysis, and provide technology recommendations, complete with software assessments and relevant supporting documentation
Documentation Management: Develop and maintain enterprise documentation of API integrations, architecture in accordance with regulatory standards, credit union policy, and programming best practices in a structure and format that is easily leveraged by staff and vendor-partners
Data Governance: Align usage and structure of data with the data governance committee, ensuring that definitions and application of data are consistent and understood across the enterprise
Technical Consultancy: Provide structured and unstructured technical consultancy and partnership with the software engineering team, enterprise applications, and business intelligence teams, among other internal stakeholders, as well as external vendors
Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to the teams in the implementation of established architectures and designs
Integration Solutions: Be responsible for designing and implementing data and application Integration solutions, for the internal product development, and for the clients

34. Integration Architect General Responsibilities

Problem Solving: Understand complex business problems and implement product features that are secure, scalable, robust and easy to implement and maintain
System Design: Understand integration requirements and design a system for interoperability with other systems
Feature Implementation: Implement, provide bug fixes and write tests and tooling for those features to ensure they work well at cloud scale
Risk Planning: Plan and identify solutions and risks proactively
Work Delivery: Own delivery of assigned work in terms of committed date, scope and quality
Technology Trends: Remain at the cutting edge of technology trends and use them to solve emerging problems
Technical Initiatives: Identifying and leading technical initiatives independently towards planned outcomes
Data Integration: Work actively with the team on data integration and data migration activities
CI/CD Setup: Setting up and working with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

35. Integration Architect Key Accountabilities

Integration Analysis: Analyze partner integration abilities and design an integration approach
Specification Support: Assist business analysts in building detailed specifications
Integration Documentation: Document Delaget partner and system integrations
Integration Expertise: Subject matter expert regarding Delaget’s integrations
Process Ownership: Owns the technical integration process and technology
Sales Support: Provide sales support as a technical expert on existing integrations
Engineering Collaboration: Participated with engineering teams in building integrations
Architecture Management: Manage architecture roadblocks popping up in the roll-out
Gap Analysis: Analyze gaps and bring together the necessary persons to come up with an action plan
Project Management: Project management of the technical rollout on a site

36. Integration Architect Roles and Details

Technology Vision: Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture, the Lead Integration Architect is responsible for providing integration technology vision and advisory and driving the integration technology architecture roadmap
Methodology Development: Develop an integration methodology and guidelines for all possible integration patterns
Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader working in close partnership with business functions, IT leadership team and IT teams to implement and design integration solutions
Architecture Validation: Works closely with IT teams to define and validate integration architectures of new solutions and oversee integration requests to ensure adherence to the reference
Governance Setup: Be responsible for principles, standards and policies associated with the potential integration patterns, as well as setting up the governance and facilitating the adoption
Solution Optimization: Seeking optimization, simplification and cost effectiveness in the integration of running solutions
Technology Research: Leading technology watch research in the integration domain and executing proof of concepts for modern integration patterns
Implementation Leadership: Lead implementations to ensure high quality and alignment with defined requirements
Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables and set and manage expectations

37. Integration Architect Responsibilities and Key Tasks

Azure Integration: Creating, designing and deploying highly customizable and robust integrations using Microsoft Azure’s Logic Apps orchestration framework
C# Development: Creating, designing and deploying C# based code for successful data transfer between multiple systems by utilizing RESTful and SOAP API methodologies
Sales Support: Assisting with the sales process for scoping prospective client integration and other data management requirements
Solution Design: Designing a tailored integration solution specific to each client's business and compliance requirements
Product Feedback: Providing creative feedback and new feature suggestions to Product Management to further enhance SilkRoad’s integration capabilities
Client Consulting: Providing expert consulting and other technical assistance to client IT teams and external vendors seeking to manage their own data bridges with SilkRoad’s APIs
Testing Support: Supporting the Services team in the design of integration test scenarios and providing support in user acceptance tests and issue remediation
Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand their data needs, define requirements, determine deliverables, and manage expectations
Data Delivery: Design and manage the technical delivery of data integrations and data migration

38. Integration Architect Duties and Roles

Standards Management: Drives RB standards for integration technology and ensures that adherence to standards are followed by projects
MuleESB Development: Designs and develops integration solutions using MuleESB and associated technologies
Technical Communication: Communicates detailed technical information in both written and verbal form across a wide range of audiences, including business stakeholders, users, developers and management
System Analysis: Develops a sound understanding of existing systems and processes, their strengths and limitations, and the current and future needs of the environment in which they exist
Vision Development: Provides vision on how they may be improved and developed
System Interaction: Understands and explains the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the environment, and evaluates the impact of changes or additions to the environment
Team Escalation: Acts as an escalation point for the integration team members and provides hands-on expertise
Solution Documentation: Documentation, including Requirements, Business Process, Solution Design, Functional Design, Test Strategy and Test Scripts, all at varying degrees of detail
Solution Management: Manage the implementation of designed solutions, architectures, build, testing, and operations

39. Integration Architect Details

Subject Expertise: Serve as an SME for projects and mandates specific to the area of expertise
Project Prioritization: Identify and prioritize projects that combine business and technology and support business strategies
Strategic Advisory: Advise and assist business partners and specialists with the positioning, planning, development, performance and follow-up of various strategic mandates under responsibility
Guideline Delivery: Organize, manage, and deliver guidelines on specific technical subjects requiring the consensus of multiple stakeholders
Policy Development: Develop and update policies, standards, architecture targets, and supporting foundations, or technology solutions, taking into account aspects of data, applications, and infrastructures to support the unit’s strategic projects and initiatives
Framework Establishment: Establish frameworks and make recommendations to the decision-making bodies and committees involved
Management Representation: Represent the unit in dealings with senior management committees and decision-making bodies
System Configuration: Install and configure information systems to ensure functionality
Requirement Analysis: Analyse structural requirements for new software and applications
Data Modeling: Design conceptual and logical data models and flowcharts

40. Integration Architect Tasks

Integration Development: Design and develop Integration solutions on both Cloud and On-premise platforms, which can include Oracle and non-Oracle applications
Middleware Configuration: Install, configure and develop components using Oracle middleware products
Requirement Capture: Work with the client’s business teams to capture requirements and build integration solutions accordingly
Team Coordination: Lead and coordinate with the offshore team to accomplish activities
Risk Management: Identify potential risks, problem areas and develop procedures that provide effective workarounds to the problem at hand
Specification Development: Develop detailed specifications, including integration diagrams, application configuration and requirements
Architecture Documentation: Produce Integration and Technical Architecture Documents to include Integration Requirements, Technical Models, Platform, Performance and Security
Development Support: Support development with tools and applications in other parts of the professional services organization
Solution Deployment: Assess, design, build, test, deploy and document integration solutions between Kronos and third-party platforms and vendors

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