Enterprise Integration Architect

Orangepeople • San Ramon, CA

2d

About The Position

The Enterprise Integration Architect defines and governs how applications, platforms, data, and business processes connect across the retail enterprise and its external partner ecosystem. The role establishes integration strategy, target-state and reference architectures, reusable integration patterns, standards, and roadmaps to enable secure, reliable, and scalable information exchange. It works across business and technology teams to support connected retail experiences spanning digital commerce, stores, merchandising, inventory, fulfillment, finance, and customer engagement.

The architect assesses the existing integration landscape and plans modernization; defines integration approaches, contracts, ownership boundaries, and reliability practices; and designs end-to-end integrations for retail platforms, business journeys, and external partners. The role also establishes security, nonfunctional, observability, and operational-readiness requirements; leads architecture reviews and delivery guidance; evaluates integration technologies; and collaborates with architecture, engineering, product, operations, security, and partner teams.

Key deliverables include an enterprise integration strategy and phased modernization roadmap, current- and target-state architecture, an integration pattern catalog, API and B2B standards, reference architectures for critical retail journeys, ownership models, operational standards, architecture review processes, and reusable implementation examples. Success includes broad adoption of standards, greater reuse, faster application and partner onboarding, improved reliability and recovery, fewer integration incidents and manual reconciliations, readiness for peak retail volumes, and modernization without unacceptable disruption to operations.

The position also includes participating in OP monthly team meetings and team-building efforts; contributing to technical discussions and peer reviews; contributing to the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base; and providing status reports to OP Account Management as requested. OP describes itself as a technology consulting and solutions company providing advisory and managed services, platforms, and staffing solutions. It highlights access to consulting practices, strategies, technologies, and training and education. The salary is determined by factors including location, education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Requirements

• Typically 10 or more years of experience in enterprise software or integration engineering, including significant responsibility for integration architecture.
• Demonstrated experience defining integration patterns, standards, and reference architectures across a complex, multi-system enterprise.
• Strong understanding of retail processes across commerce, stores, merchandising, inventory, order management, fulfillment, returns, and finance.
• Practical experience with API-led, event-driven, message-based, batch, and B2B integration approaches.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, messaging protocols, JSON, XML, schema design, and API and event lifecycle management.
• Experience with integration platforms, API gateways, message brokers, or event-streaming platforms.
• Understanding of distributed-system design, including consistency models, transaction management, idempotency, resilience, and recovery.
• Experience designing secure integrations involving customer, payment, commercial, or other sensitive information.
• Ability to communicate architectural decisions clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Ability to guide implementation teams and assess whether delivered solutions meet architectural and operational requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with omnichannel retail, multi-brand or multi-region operations, and high-volume trading environments.
• Experience integrating platforms such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Manhattan, or Blue Yonder.
• Experience with MuleSoft, Boomi, AWS integration services, Kafka, or equivalent platforms; Boomi is preferred.
• Familiarity with retail EDI standards and trading-partner onboarding.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, hybrid integration, legacy modernization, and phased platform migrations.
• Experience establishing integration governance, reusable engineering assets, and platform adoption practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise integration strategy, target-state architecture, and implementation roadmap across internal systems and external parties.
• Assess the integration landscape, identify architectural gaps and technical debt, and develop modernization plans.
• Establish reference architectures, design principles, decision frameworks, and standards for integration approaches.
• Define system boundaries, systems of record, data ownership, and integration responsibilities with application and data architects.
• Set guidance for synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven integration, batch processing, managed file transfer, change data capture, and EDI.
• Establish reusable patterns for request/reply, publish/subscribe, routing, transformation, orchestration, choreography, aggregation, and long-running transactions.
• Define API and event contracts, schema evolution, versioning, backward compatibility, and partner onboarding standards.
• Establish reliability practices for idempotency, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, dead-letter queues, replay, deduplication, reconciliation, transaction boundaries, eventual consistency, compensating actions, and exception handling.
• Design end-to-end integrations across retail commerce, store, merchandising, inventory, order, fulfillment, customer, payment, and financial platforms.
• Support critical retail journeys including product and assortment publication, pricing and promotions, inventory availability, order processing, payments, customer identity, consent, and loyalty synchronization.
• Define integration requirements for peak trading periods, flash sales, seasonal demand, and time-sensitive operations.
• Establish partner integration and onboarding standards using APIs, webhooks, EDI, messaging, and secure file exchange.
• Architect partner exchanges for purchase orders, acknowledgments, advance shipping notices, invoices, inventory feeds, shipment updates, and settlement information.
• Define partner-facing requirements for security, data mapping, service levels, monitoring, exception handling, and reconciliation while accounting for partner constraints.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to define authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and sensitive-data handling requirements.
• Define availability, latency, throughput, scalability, recovery, and data-retention requirements.
• Establish end-to-end observability standards, including correlation identifiers, distributed tracing, metrics, alerts, and dashboards.
• Design failure recovery and business continuity practices, including controlled reprocessing that avoids duplicate business transactions.
• Ensure production ownership, support models, runbooks, and escalation paths are defined for critical integrations.
• Lead architecture reviews and document decisions, alternatives, and trade-offs.
• Create and maintain integration blueprints, system-context diagrams, sequence diagrams, interface catalogs, and architecture decision records.
• Guide engineering teams through design and implementation, including reference implementations and proof-of-concept work where needed.
• Evaluate integration platforms, API management solutions, message brokers, event-streaming technologies, and managed file-transfer tools.
• Collaborate with enterprise and domain architects, product owners, engineering teams, operations, security, and external partners.
• Support delivery planning, dependency management, vendor evaluation, and alignment with the enterprise technology roadmap.
• Participate in OP monthly team meetings and team-building efforts; contribute to technical discussions and peer reviews; contribute to the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base; and provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental Insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies, technologies, and training and education

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed