Middleware Integration Solution Architect

Insight Global is looking for a Solutions Architect to join the team at an enterprise manufacturing organization headquartered here in Atlanta, GA to advise on best practices for large scale data integrations as well as development of roadmaps for their software engineering and integration organization. In this role, you will collaborate with software engineers, integration teams and architects globally to create engineering standards that maximize the division of labor, allowing engineers to focus on their core strengths. This approach aims to boost efficiency and deliver higher returns through innovative technology solutions. The Solutions Architect will also develop technical and architectural roadmaps to modernize our legacy technology and drive transformational change. Additionally, you will work with multifunctional teams to provide solutioning services and create reference architectures based on successful solutions to address business challenges. The team’s core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions. We recently initiated our transformation journey, creating functions and capabilities that enable engineers to have major impacts on the business's performance. We seek to build functionality once, so engineers are encouraged to re-use their peers’ work and modify then scale it to meet new use cases. We focus on delivering profitable business outcomes by partnering with business analysts, delivery leaders, and quality engineers to build the right solution at the right speed.

Day to Day:
• Participate and self-drive thought leadership in overall application and integration strategy efforts while partnering with IT leaders across the company.
• Define a menu of tech-stacks and engineering standards while understanding how cloud architecture impacts cost to run.
• Understanding the architecture of our applications; developing roadmaps that proactively addresses technical debt and modernizing our infrastructure that is aligned with our engineering standards.
• Conduct experiments to prove out modern technical solutions.
• Develop reference architecture, design patterns, and boilerplates that provide guidelines and best practices for engineers, thus, freeing them to focus on delivering value.
• Partner with the engineers by helping them implement these best practices and drive standardization of technologies and tools to achieve enterprise simplification and re-use.
Participate in the talent selection process for architects within the team.

Salary expectations: $180-200k
This is not a remote role, and will require you to go into the office in downtown Atlanta, GA 3 times a week.

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• Experience as a Solutions Architect, championing a new enterprise middleware platform within the organization; developing strategies, best practices, repeatable patterns, and other engineering standards
• Leadership experience influencing C-suite, other key stakeholders, and/or engineers
• Hands on experience and expertise in multiple middleware platforms utilizing various integration patterns such as event-driven, hub-and-spoke, publish-subscribe, and streaming.
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements, including knowledge of encryption, authentication, authorization, and data privacy
• Understanding of security standards including SAML, XACML, MASSL, OATH, WSTrust, OAUTH, OpenID Connect

• Proficient in at least 2 of the following middleware platforms: Mulesoft, SAP-CPI, Infor Ion, or another industry-leading middleware platform
• Proficient in at least 2 of the following API Management tools: AWS Gateway, Apigee, Kong, or another industry-leading management tool
• Proficient in at least 2 of the following Streaming Platforms: Kafka, Kinesis, NATS, or another industry streaming solution
• Proficient in the following programming languages: Python and GoLang
• Experience with various industrial protocols used for communication and data transfer in industrial environments, including MQTT, OPC-UA, MODBUS, etc.
• Experience in agile methodologies
• Experience with EDI platforms (Sterling Commerce, OpenText, etc.) and standards (ANSI X12, EDIFACT, etc.)
• Background in restful API development using C# or similar language

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.