Integration Architect (Remote)

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The Integration Architect plays a pivotal role in leading the integration of the E-Commerce Digital Ordering Platform. As an experienced enterprise Integration Architect, this role involves defining the overall enterprise messaging architecture with a special focus on integrating messaging solutions such as TIBCO and Artemis. This role guides the organization’s digital transformation by steering the strategic direction of the messaging architecture, ensuring seamless integration across platforms, and enhancing the performance of the digital ordering system.

The Integration Architect leads the design, development, and integration of messaging solutions, develops and maintains the messaging architecture roadmap, provides thought leadership, and drives the organization’s strategy for enterprise messaging architecture and integration practices. 

NOTE: This is a remote position with leadership team in Louisville, KY office location

Duties & Responsibilities (other duties as assigned)

• Lead the design, development, and integration of messaging solutions for the enterprise, focusing on TIBCO and Artemis.

• Develop and maintain the messaging architecture roadmap to ensure alignment with business objectives and technology goals.

• Provide thought leadership and drive the organization’s strategy for enterprise messaging architecture and integration practices.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, IT, and Business units, to design, build, and integrate scalable messaging solutions.

• Ensure that the E-Commerce Digital Ordering Platform is seamlessly integrated with enterprise messaging systems, improving speed, security, and reliability of order processing.

• Lead the integration of various back-end and front-end systems, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance the messaging and integration landscape.

• Define best practices and standards for the use of messaging technologies within the organization, ensuring consistent application across teams.

• Provide expertise and guidance on TIBCO messaging solutions (e.g., EMS, BusinessWorks, ActiveMatrix) and Artemis for real-time messaging, queues, and topics.

• Drive the continuous improvement of integration patterns, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and event-driven architecture (EDA) solutions.

• Provide oversight and mentorship to junior architects and technical teams, driving alignment in technology decisions.

• Participate in the evaluation and selection of third-party solutions that complement and integrate with existing platforms.

• Participate in the PRODUCTION incidents triages to provide a quick mitigation plans from recovery as well as options to find out the Root Cause.

• Perform the Messaging Administrative operations activities in terms of monitoring the queues, diverts and Ensure message durability, failover, and clustering configurations are optimize.

• Manage installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades of TIBCO EMS and Artemis.

• Tune JMS queues, topics, and persistence settings to optimize performance.

• Debug issues related to message loss, duplication, or out-of-order processing.

• Troubleshoot connectivity issues, slow consumers, and high message backlogs.

• Optimize producer-consumer throughput and avoid message bottlenecks.

Education, Experience & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus.

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, with a focus on integration solutions for e-commerce and digital platforms.

• Strong expertise in TIBCO messaging solutions (TIBCO EMS, TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO FTL) and experience with Artemis messaging (Brokers, Diverts) platform.

• Deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including event-driven architecture (EDA), microservices, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

• 8+ years experience coding in Java

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Artemis, TIBCO, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other messaging platforms in a cloud-native environment.

• Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud technologies (Google).

• Certification in TIBCO products (e.g., TIBCO Certified Professional) or Artemis.

• Experience working in agile development environments and familiarity with DevOps practices.

Functional Skills

• Proven experience leading and managing complex integration projects within large organizations.

• Strong understanding of cloud-based platforms, APIs, and web services, with experience in RESTful APIs and SOAP services.

• Experience with e-commerce platforms, digital ordering systems, and related technologies.

• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Proven ability to develop and maintain architectural roadmaps and drive technical innovation.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and monitoring solutions for messaging platforms.

• Understanding of security best practices in enterprise messaging and integration.

Our Values
• EVERYONE BELONGS – We believe connectedness and belonging are the essential ingredients to our success.
• DO THE RIGHT THING –We are relentlessly focused on quality and integrity and make the right choices, even when it's difficult.
• PEOPLE FIRST – To craft positive experiences for our customers, we take care of each other first.
• INNOVATE TO WIN – We champion and challenge for a better way in all we do.
• HAVE FUN – We find joy, create meaningful impact and celebrate the journey together

Our Core Competencies
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC - We leverage data and insights to craft a customer experience that builds relationships, cultivates trust, and delivers excellence
• RESULTS DRIVEN – We focus on measurable outcomes by remaining optimistic, tenacious, and persistent even in the face of challenges.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT –We champion for better through strategic risk taking, experimentation and challenging the status quo.
• BIAS FOR ACTION – We courageously lead, drive towards decisions, and maintain agility to meet the demands of our dynamic industry.
• WINNING TOGETHER – We work together to unlock our full potential by actively collaborating and contributing in a cross-functional capacity
     
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