Senior Enterprise Architect – Integration

International Motors, LLC•Lisle, IL

1d•$167,200 - $250,800

About The Position

International Motors is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect – Integration to provide enterprise-level architecture leadership for how applications, platforms, and services connect, communicate, and exchange data across the organization. As part of Enterprise Architecture, this role will help shape integration strategy and architecture across a diverse technology landscape spanning corporate functions, operational technology, ERP, financial services, R&D, manufacturing, and service solutions. The role establishes and guides enterprise integration architecture, standards, patterns, and governance, ensuring that integration approaches are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with broader enterprise architecture principles and technology strategy. The technology landscape includes modern and legacy applications, on-premises systems, SaaS platforms, commercial off-the-shelf solutions, vendor-hosted platforms, APIs, and other integration technologies. The position provides architecture oversight and strategic guidance throughout solution design and delivery. The Senior Enterprise Architect conducts solution design and architecture reviews, evaluates proposed integration approaches, identifies architectural risks and dependencies, and helps ensure alignment with enterprise integration standards and strategic direction. The role also serves as a trusted advisor and consultant to federated application and solution teams, helping them evaluate integration options and trade-offs and select appropriate approaches based on business, functional, technical, security, data, and operational requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and at least 11 years of Information Technology or IT Architecture experience, with at least 2 years of lead experience; OR a master's degree and at least 9 years of Information Technology or IT Architecture experience, with at least 2 years of lead experience; OR at least 14 years of Information Technology or IT Architecture experience, with at least 2 years of lead experience.
For candidates other than current employees, legal authorization to work in the United States on an unrestricted basis as a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. Employment-related work sponsorship is not anticipated.

Nice To Haves

Broad enterprise-level integration architecture experience in a large, established, or regulated organization, preferably in-house and across multiple business domains.
Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns, middleware, SOA, API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, and hybrid/cloud integration across Azure, AWS, or GCP, including when and why to use each approach.
Proven experience leading architecture review boards, integration governance, or enterprise standards programs.
Experience integrating legacy or on-premises systems with modern SaaS and cloud platforms, including working within vendor and API limitations.
A technical foundation, often developed earlier in a development or engineering career, sufficient to evaluate designs, identify flaws, and assess risk across many technologies without being the hands-on implementer.
Familiarity with integration and API management platforms such as TIBCO, MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, Oracle SOA Suite, or Microsoft APIM.
Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills with senior technical and business leaders.
Experience in a matrixed, international environment.
Manufacturing or automotive industry experience.

Responsibilities

Define the enterprise integration vision, roadmap, reference architectures, and approved patterns across legacy, on-premises, SaaS, and cloud platforms.
Evaluate how new technologies and solutions will integrate with the existing landscape, assessing security, performance, scalability, maintainability, and supportability.
Determine the appropriate integration approach—such as APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture, file/ETL, or middleware—based on system constraints, vendor limitations, and long-term fit.
Define disposition strategies for legacy middleware and integrations, including whether to retain, retire, replace, or modernize them, while balancing near-term delivery with technical-debt reduction.
Lead architecture reviews focused on integrations and system-to-system communication; review proposed designs against business and technical requirements, identify gaps, and guide teams in addressing them.
Build and lead a formal integration governance process, potentially including an Integration Governance Committee of application owners, data providers, and subject-matter experts.
Replace ad hoc point-to-point builds and direct database access with enterprise-approved, reusable patterns that protect source systems and prevent duplicate integrations.
Establish standards for versioning, lifecycle management, security, documentation, and monitoring to provide visibility into how data moves across the enterprise.
Author and maintain integration standards, playbooks, standard operating procedures, and tool-selection guidance by architecture style, use case, and platform.
Promote adoption through learning sessions, design consultations, reusable components, and shared services.
Ensure integrations meet enterprise security requirements, including OAuth, OpenID Connect, and certificate-based authentication, as well as data protection and regulatory requirements.
Partner with technology leaders, product owners, application, infrastructure, and data teams, and business stakeholders across domains.
Advise stakeholders and influence architectural decisions without direct authority.
Communicate technical trade-offs clearly to technical teams and senior leadership, and constructively challenge decisions when needed.
Mentor architects and engineers on integration patterns and enterprise design thinking.