Senior Integration Architect

Swagelok is a global organization and one of the largest employers of manufacturing talent in Northeast Ohio. We are driven by our core values of Quality, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Customer Focus, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement, which are demonstrated through our daily actions. For over 75 years, our dedication to our core values has been the foundation for our success. Our products have been up into space, down to the bottom of the ocean, and everywhere in between. That same dedication spans to our customers.

Throughout our organization we demonstrate a commitment to these values and those we bring onboard. Whether you want to grow in your role or explore broad opportunities and develop new skills—you’ll thrive in a culture that promotes learning and development.

We strive to be a company where we all can do our best work with a true sense of purpose and belonging. 

Be Connected. Be Valued. Be You.

We hope you’ll consider joining our team.

The Integration Architect leads the architecture of the shared technology capabilities the organization builds on, including cloud and platform services, integration, identity, and data. This role sets the principles, standards, and reference architectures that span solutions, owns the enterprise technology roadmap and lifecycle, and is accountable for the coherence, cost, and risk posture of the technology portfolio over time. The Integration Architect exercises significant organizational influence and shapes the technology investment decisions leadership makes.

Job Responsibilities

Architecture Development

• Produces enterprise architecture, including target state models, reference architectures, and the architecturally significant decisions that span multiple solutions.
• Designs shared and cross-cutting capabilities used across solutions, including cloud and platform services, engaging directly in solution architecture where those decisions are at stake.
• Produces integration architecture and owns integration platforms, defining how systems connect and exchange data across the organization.
• Shapes enterprise security, identity, and resilience posture as an architectural input, in partnership with Enterprise Security.
• Owns the technical planning approach for enterprise initiatives, and ensures the right technical expertise is engaged where domains and solutions intersect.
• Builds reference implementations and proofs of concept that prove enterprise patterns before they are adopted broadly.

Continuity and Alignment

• Keeps enterprise target architecture stable, viable, and consistently applied as platforms, solutions, and vendors change.
• Decides on exceptions to enterprise architecture direction, and removes structural obstacles that constrain more than one solution or domain.

Standards and Principles

• Sets enterprise architecture principles, standards, and practices that align technology decisions with business direction.
• Defines enterprise position on make versus buy, platform and vendor selection, and vendor concentration.
• Sets architecture methods, tools, and documentation standards used across the architecture practice, and embeds them into how technology change is planned and delivered.
• Sets enterprise integration patterns and interface standards, and defines the contracts that govern how systems exchange data.

Strategy, Capability and Roadmaps

• Translates business direction into technology capabilities, and owns the enterprise technology roadmap and lifecycle, determining what is invested in, sustained, consolidated, and retired.
• Sets enterprise position on emerging technologies, including AI and automation capabilities, proving them where warranted and determining the conditions under which they are adopted.

Trade-offs and Decisions

• Captures and prioritizes market, technology, and business trends, identifies alternative approaches, and recommends the technology investment priorities and sequencing leadership should fund.
• Owns enterprise technology cost structure, technical debt, and vendor concentration as tracked outcomes, and builds the case for the investment required to address them.

Leadership and Influence

• Advises IT and business leadership on architecture direction, and builds alignment across teams and functions where priorities compete.
• Raises the standard of architecture practice, mentoring technical associates across the organization and shaping how architecture work is done.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience

• Demonstrated experience producing architecture that spans multiple solutions and technology domains, including target state definition and reference architecture.
• Demonstrated experience integrating across SAP landscapes, including SAP integration tooling and the interfaces between SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Depth in enterprise integration patterns, including API-led, event-driven, and batch, and in the contracts and versioning that govern them.
• Experience owning integration and API management platforms in an enterprise environment, including selection and lifecycle.
• Proven design judgment on integration failure behavior, including retries, idempotency, and recovery from partial failure.
• Experience owning technology lifecycle decisions at enterprise scale, including consolidation, replacement, and retirement across a portfolio.
• Breadth across cloud and platform services, integration and API strategy, identity, and data architecture, with depth in at least one.
• Experience evaluating and introducing new technology capability, including proving it and defining the conditions for adoption.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without positional authority, across teams, functions, and vendors.
• Experience building the business case for technology investment, including cost, risk, and sequencing analysis presented to senior leadership.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, business or related technical field
• Experience working in agile or product-based delivery models.
• Experience in manufacturing or distribution environments, particularly in ERP, supply chain, and/or manufacturing execution.
• Experience with SAP Business Technology Platform, particularly Integration Suite.

Working conditions and/or Physical Requirements

• Working conditions associated with normal office environment.
• Ability to operate standard office equipment (e.g., computer, telephone, copier, printer, etc.).
• Ability to effectively communicate in both small and large groups and settings.
• Ability to traverse between multiple locations in Ohio and Pennsylvania as needed.
• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting qualitative and quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.

Swagelok provides a comprehensive package of valuable benefits called Total Rewards focused on health and wellness, compensation, retirement planning, and supplemental rewards. 

To apply:

1. Click ‘Apply Now’ to the role of interest, upload your resume and complete the application.

2. Those that match our qualifications will be contacted to schedule a phone interview.

Congratulations on taking the first step to Be Connected. Be Valued. Be You.

Swagelok is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Applicants are selected without regard to race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, pregnancy-related medical conditions, age, national origin or ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran/military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

Swagelok will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, and Ohio state law. 

This job summary is intended to be brief and does not list all the duties for this position. Nothing in this job description should be construed as an express or implied contract of employment. Swagelok is an at-will employer, which means that either party is free to terminate the employment relationship at any time, without any advanced notice, for any reason or no reason.