Enterprise Integration Architect
ATB Financial, Canada
Job Description
Listening to Albertans. Going deeper to understand who they are and where they’re going. Translating the complex world of banking and investing into brilliantly simple solutions. Through all this, we believe we can create happiness. This is the ATB way.
Job Number: REQ1705
Location: Alberta, Canada
Apply by: April 23, 2021
Paygrade: M-OTH
# Positions available: 1
Leader Name: Bill Friedrich
The opportunity: Integration is the fundamental enabler of digital business. The Enterprise Integration Architect will be responsible for how we bridge our integration patterns, workflows, principles, and technologies of today into our new agile, cloud native business models of tomorrow. ATB’s 10 year strategic vision is driving the organization in new and innovative directions that are divergent from the classical banking and wealth roles of the past. The ability for ATB and third parties to integrate with each other to create new business capabilities will be paramount to this vision.
Being a key contributor in defining our new enterprise integration practice, you will drive our ability to change and adapt our approaches, technologies, and processes to achieve our near and long term goals. You will create the strategies and roadmaps that will enable the distribution and movement of data across diverse systems and an ever growing information world market. You will oversee the integration patterns, data models, and technology that allow ATB and our partners to construct performant solutions using an agile delivery methodology.
What is needed: Operating at an enterprise level, you will use your strong leadership, collaborative, and interpersonal skills to work with both business and technical stakeholders to achieve our future integration and workflow needs. Your excellent written and verbal communication skills will be used to align your vision with technical and non-technical audiences. Your strong understanding of the integration space, workflow automation, associated best practices, and knowledge of emerging technology/trends will help define ATB’s integration practice and shape its future business.
Requirements
Responsibilities
- Establish a vision and roadmap
- Capture the state of the current integration environment
- Define a future state vision for integration and workflow automation at ATB that meets the needs of our current and future business models such as API as a product and Open Banking. Work with stakeholders to gain alignment to the vision
- Perform a gap analysis of current to future state and work with stakeholders to define the strategies, roadmaps, and transition architectures to achieve the vision, including a plan for existing legacy integrations
- Guide it through to reality!
- Help establish a new integration and workflow automation practice
- Participate in technology assessments and the RFP process for new cloud based integration and workflow tools
- Define: the standards for ATB’s integration and workflow automation practice, ways to securely integrate with 3rd parties to achieve outcomes such as Open Banking, the approaches for integrating with and exposing our big data solutions for real-time analytics and business intelligence, the process of solutioning integrations and associated artifacts, and the methods of implementation
- Scope the roles and responsibilities needed for the practice
- Contribute as a Subject Matter Expert
- Provide solution guidance/definition, oversight, and governance for implementation teams
- Define approaches for new integrations to meet business and technical constraints
- Develop needed documentation and architecture artifacts
- Keep up to date on current integration trends and approaches and evaluate them against ATB’s needs
- Revise and adjust as technology and the business changes
- Keep one step ahead to ensure ATB is proactive instead of reactive
What you bring:
- Strong focus on business value and the customer
- Bachelor’s degree in an IT field such as Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline
- 10+ years of work experience with increasing responsibilities in digital solutions or other innovation/mobility/digital roles, preferably with 5+ years of that in the integration space
- Experience with cloud providers and cloud integration platforms including API gateways
- Understanding of integration approaches and security, patterns, APIs, and data modeling
- Architecture/Leadership experience and background in the design and development of information systems and digital transformation
- Experience developing strategies, roadmaps, and collaborating with a diverse group of business and technical stakeholders