Experience: 12–15+ Years
Role: Enterprise Integration Architect / Azure Solutions Architect
Location: North Chicago, IL. On-site.
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Enterprise Azure Integration Architect to lead the architecture, design, and modernization of large-scale enterprise integration platforms supporting 1,000+ interfaces across mission-critical business applications.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in enterprise integration architecture, Azure-native integration services, API management, messaging platforms, and legacy middleware modernization, particularly TIBCO to Azure migration.
Key Responsibilities
* Define and lead enterprise-wide integration architecture supporting 1,000+ interfaces, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
* Architect Azure integration solutions using Azure API Management (Premium), Logic Apps (Standard), Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus (Premium).
* Establish enterprise integration standards, reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and governance models.
* Design high-volume, mission-critical integration platforms supporting synchronous, asynchronous, batch, and event-driven communication.
* Lead modernization and migration of large-scale TIBCO integration environments to Azure-native services.
* Design enterprise messaging architecture, including message routing, guaranteed delivery, retries, dead-letter handling, and disaster recovery.
* Architect integrations across SAP, ERP, cloud, on-premises, and third-party enterprise applications.
* Establish API lifecycle management, security policies, versioning, throttling, and enterprise API governance.
* Implement centralized monitoring and observability using Azure Log Analytics and Application Insights.
* Drive architecture reviews, performance optimization, capacity planning, and high-availability strategies.
* Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to define integration modernization roadmaps.
* Provide technical leadership to multiple integration development teams and ensure architectural consistency across the enterprise.
Required Qualifications
* 12–15+ years of IT experience with significant expertise in enterprise integration and solution architecture.
* Proven experience architecting enterprise integration platforms with 1,000+ interfaces across multiple business systems.
* Strong hands-on expertise in Azure API Management, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus.
* Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, and microservices.
* Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and scalable integration platforms.
* Strong knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs, messaging protocols, OAuth 2.0, Microsoft Entra ID, and enterprise security.
* Experience with integration governance, architecture standards, CI/CD, and DevOps.
* Excellent technical leadership, stakeholder management, and enterprise architecture documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with TIBCO EMS, BusinessWorks, and TIBCO CLE migration to Azure.
* Experience managing large-scale enterprise integration modernization programs.
* Knowledge of Azure Container Apps, Java, .NET, and custom integration adapters.
* Experience with SAP and complex ERP integration ecosystems.
* Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification preferred.