23 Sep
Integration Architect
Iowa, Muscatine , 52761 Muscatine USA

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HNI Corporation, an industry leader in workplace furnishings and building products, is in search of a Integration Architect to join our team in Muscatine, IA! As an integration architect, you will create the technical vision and provide thought leadership for all integration technologies. You will develop, create awareness for, and monitor adherence to integration standards and will utilize these standards to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability. This role is responsible for reviewing the development, implementation, maintenance, and support of designs and provides oversight of applications within their team. This involves the uniformity of application implementations under their influence, proper performance of those applications, and the future vision of the team's development within the enterprise direction. You will be responsible for ensuring that software developed meets architectural and quality expectations and requires a broad knowledge about all applicable business processes.In this role, you will have a deep understanding of integration technologies and practices as well as the business acumen to develop overarching system designs. You will partner with the integration team to develop standards and design patterns. You will work with various IT teams to champion the adoption of patterns, platforms, and tools to support the usage and conformity of the integration architecture. This architect is a mentor and provides positive and developmental feedback and capitalizes on teachable moments to grow the technical skills of others. Some of the essential aspects of the position include:
  • Analyzes the business needs, defines detailed requirements based on business outcomes, develops proposed solutions/approaches including the new process and policy changes, new system capabilities and/or configurations needed, with the business community, and recommends potential alternatives, including business and technical considerations
  • Ensures holistic solution design, making sure that cross-functional considerations are incorporated into the functional and technical design specifications, focusing on strategic business capabilities and requirements
  • Creation and review functional and technical specifications and validates design/development specifications with technical development teams
  • Identifies and coordinates with stakeholder technical teams to ensure the delivery of a holistic solution design
  • Creates and communicates solution overviews and alternatives to technical and business leadership in order to provide understanding of solution direction and to gain consensus support of the recommended solution approach
  • Ensures solutions are aligned with application strategies and identify opportunities, challenges, and migration road maps to support strategies
  • Educate stakeholders of application architecture risks to influence change that supports business and IT strategies
  • Collaborate to develop and present business cases for IT investment strategy needed to support application architecture road map
  • Take initiative to learn and develop new skills and stay current on new and emerging technologies
What it takes:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or related disciplines
  • Minimum 5+ years of IT experience; among which minimum 3 years experience in integration or solution design
  • Experience with multiple and diverse technology environments and software solutions
  • Experience with API platform integration, API design and complex system integrations including Oracle EBS, Salesforce, MS Dynamics, Azure
  • Experience with an iPaaS integration platform as well as familiarities with connectors/adapters
  • Experience designing and converting monolithic applications to microservice-based architectures
  • Knowledge of REST APIs and webservices, JSON and XML structures
  • Experience with data lake/big data tools
  • Experience with agile methodologies preferred
  • Experience with containerized platforms and server-less computing desired, but not required
  • Experience working in the manufacturing industry is a plus
  • Must be visionary and strategic in approach, and demonstrated ability to apply application integration disciplines to solve business problems
  • Strong skills in a business area and able to understand business problems and how to create processes and system capabilities to solve these problems or opportunities
  • Strong skills in the system capabilities and how they would be applied and /or configured to solving the business problem
  • Strong understanding of implementation processes and best practices in application architecture
  • Must work independently with minimal direction with superior organizational skills
  • Strong relationship building and influencing skills with the ability to drive change
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to articulate technical concepts in business terms and present to senior management
  • Ability to envision and detail out solutions to meet current and anticipated future business needs across functional and technical process areas.
  • Extensive business and/or systems analysis skills that support applications development
  • Proven track record of delivering within deadlines with the ability to prioritize projects
We look forward to hearing from you! Why HNI Corporation?

HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) is a manufacturer of workplace furnishings and building products, operating under two segments. The workplace furnishings segment is a leading global designer and provider of commercial furnishings, going to market under multiple unique brands. The residential building products segment is the nation's leading manufacturer and marketer of hearth products, which include a full array of gas, electric, wood, and pellet-burning fireplaces, inserts, stoves, facings, and accessories. As one of the larger employers in Iowa, HNI Corporation has been ranked by Industry Week magazine as one of the "Top 100 Best Managed Companies in the World", by Fortune magazine as "The Most Admired Company" in the furniture industry; and named by Chief Executive Magazine as one of the world's best companies for leadership development.We invite you to visit us at www.HNICorp.com for the best visual overview of our organization.EEO/Male/Female/Veteran/Disabled

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