Integration Architect

Border States Industries, Inc.•Fargo, ND

33d

About The Position

The Integration Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the enterprise integration architecture that connects Border States' systems, partners, and applications. This role sets the strategy for API-first and event-driven integration patterns, establishes enterprise standards, and leads the development of reusable integration services that enable scalability, reliability, and business agility. The Integration Architect will play a critical role in maturing Border States' Integration Center of Excellence (iCoE), reducing technical debt, accelerating delivery, and enabling future capabilities such as real-time analytics and AI.

Requirements

4 Year STEM Degree or equivalent in work experience, required.
7+ years of experience in enterprise integration architecture or related technical roles.
Strong expertise with modern integration platforms (e.g., iPaaS, API gateways, messaging/event platforms, or hybrid integration environments).
Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, AsyncAPI/event-driven integrations, publish/subscribe messaging, and file/EDI-based integrations.
Strong knowledge of modern integration patterns, including orchestration, event-driven messaging, and pub/sub models.
Experience establishing integration standards, governance frameworks, reusable patterns, and domain services.
Strong knowledge of master data and transactional domains (materials, customers, orders, invoices, inventory, etc..).
Translates business requirements into modern, maintainable integration designs.
Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Applies strategic thinking with a strong architectural mindset.
Learns new systems quickly and adapts to changing environments.
Continuously improves processes and procedures.
Builds effective, positive working relationships with customers, vendors, and team members.
Works effectively both independently and collaboratively.
Demonstrates a proactive, can-do attitude and eagerness to tackle challenges.
Performs well under pressure and resolves time-sensitive issues.
Applies strong problem-solving skills individually and in group settings.
Influences outcomes without formal authority.
Provides excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills.
Offers strong technical leadership and problem-solving capabilities.
Drives reduction of complexity, tech debt, and friction to improve developer productivity.

Responsibilities

Defines and maintains the enterprise integration strategy aligned with business priorities and digital transformation goals.
Architects API-first and event-driven integration patterns to enable scalability, reuse, and clean-core SAP principles.
Develops and maintains reference architectures, canonical data models, and integration standards.
Architects and oversees integrations spanning our ERP backbone (SAP S/4HANA), cloud platform services (SAP BTP), and the broader application and partner ecosystem.
Drives standardization and governance through the Integration Center of Excellence (iCoE).
Reviews and approves integration designs, ensuring alignment with security, data, and enterprise architecture standards.
Establishes policies for versioning, error handling, monitoring, lifecycle management, and observability.
Builds reusable domain services (e.g., customer, material, order, invoice, inventory) and API/event catalogs.
Oversees development of scalable, secure, and maintainable integration components.
Ensures integrations are designed for future AI and analytics enablement through proper eventing, metadata, and data quality patterns.
Serves as the integration authority and trusted advisor for cross-functional teams, solution architects, developers, and business leaders.
Provides technical mentorship and guidance to integration developers and analysts.
Supports the evaluation and onboarding of new SaaS or partner systems with standardized integration approaches.
Builds and maintains enterprise-wide observability for integration flows (monitoring, tracing, alerts, dashboards).
Enhances integration resilience through design patterns for retries, idempotency, error routing, and dead-letter handling.
Other duties as assigned by supervisor or other designate.