Principal Engineer, Architect for Integration, Engineering, and Security

Advantage Sales & Marketing dba Advantage Solutions•Chicago, IL

9h•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for an Architect for Integration, Engineering & Security. The responsibilities include owning the architectural direction for enterprise applications, designing end-to-end data flows for platforms and AI, integrating security practices into application delivery, and participating in the enterprise architecture practice. The role also requires business domain expertise in retail and consumer packaged goods. The company is a leading sales and marketing agency specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
10-12 years experience in relevant field
Integration architecture between custom / technology platform applications and enterprise resource planning systems
Data design: Data flows, data model design, master data management principles, and AI technology affinity
Software selection, pattern definition, and product team partnership
Enterprise and / or deep solution architecture for custom and technology platform applications
Business domain expertise, such as retail, consumer packaged goods, field workforce management, services company service delivery, and revenue management

Responsibilities

Own the architectural direction for the enterprise applications across application portfolios and their business units, including architecture for custom-built applications and technology platforms.
Support software selection decisions, define architecture patterns, and ensure architecture achieves information security requirements.
Work alongside engineering teams and product teams as an active, embedded partner in delivery.
Design the end-to-end data flows between commercial and corporate systems and the data and analytics / AI platform.
Define flows of business operational data for analytics and management reporting and surfacing analytics data into company applications.
Ensure business systems are designed to support emerging AI use cases.
Define integration patterns for data that keep client and company data secure.
Architect the integration of external industry data sources into business applications.
Plan and shape integrations between systems that are secure by design.
Collaborate as a peer with cybersecurity engineering teams.
Jointly design patterns and delivery approaches for maximizing information security.
Ensure coherent data and integration plans.
Shape plans for phases of application change between parallel implementation programs.
Operate as an active member of the enterprise architecture practice.
Collaborate with peer architects across commercial systems, enterprise systems, data/AI, and infrastructure/security.
Build, advocate, and participate in shared governance, architecture standards, and ways of working.
Contribute to keeping the practice coherent and relevant as the organization's technology agenda grows in complexity.
Bring working knowledge of retail and consumer packaged goods business processes.
Have experience in technology and processes such as sales/customer relationship management, category management, retail execution, and field workforce management.
Build credibility as a technology advisor to business stakeholders based on industry operational reality.
Advise on building shared capability, reusability, and user experience within company applications.