Specialist IT- Integration Architect

Overview

Own the integration architecture for Eaton's external, API-first layer, defining how the external customer platform and back-end engines connect to external customers and partner-hosted APIs, and setting the standards and framework for External APIs push and pull modernization.

What you'll do

• Define and communicate a shared architectural vision for a complex, highly integrated product that supports current and future business needs.
• Collaborate with Agile teams to consider solutions, validate technology assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and converge on a solution.
• Work closely with Enterprise and Solution Architects to deliver solutions aligned to broader architecture guardrails.
• Design how the external customer platform and back-end engines (Salesforce Commerce Cloud, external facing Commerce platform, ERP platforms, MuleSoft, Apigee, Azure Services, Redis Cache, Data Platforms, and third-party applications) connect to external customers and partner-hosted APIs.
• Define the standards, patterns, and framework for External APIs push and pull modernization.
• Own the integration strategy and define the future-state architecture aligned with business and digital transformation goals.
• Design and govern scalable, secure, and reusable integration solutions across the developing platform.
• Establish API-led connectivity standards, API governance, and reusable integration patterns to enable seamless data exchange across systems.
• Provide architectural oversight, review solution designs, enforce standards, and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture principles.
• Ensure integration solutions meet security, compliance, data privacy, and operational risk requirements across all connected systems.
• Define standards for integration performance, availability, monitoring, and operational support to ensure stable and reliable services.
• Support the successful delivery of integration initiatives through standardized design approaches, CI/CD adoption, automation, and release governance.
• Own end-to-end integration designs (REST API and MuleSoft) and unblock the build team through timely design reviews.
• Define integration standards, reusable patterns, and a framework for consuming partner-hosted APIs.
• Design for throughput, reliability, and observability (monitoring, end-to-end tracing, SLAs), addressing External APIs timeout and throughput issues.
• Architect event-driven / push integration (webhooks, pub/sub, messaging) alongside existing pull APIs.
• Partner with Identity (Okta / Saviynt) to design external-customer authentication and coarse/fine-grained entitlements at the integration layer.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 15+ years in the software industry with a proven track record of shipping high-quality products.
• Significant experience designing API and system-to-system integrations, ideally for external / B2B customers.
• Strong expertise in Application-to-Application (A2A), real-time, batch, and event-driven integrations.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in MuleSoft and Kafka.
• Expert-level understanding of integration / middleware and API platforms, programming languages, and their associated development platforms.
• Deep understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and API-led architecture.
• Expert-level skills in integration and API technologies: MuleSoft, REST/SOAP, JSON/XML, and API gateways.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka, event streaming, messaging, and publish-subscribe architectures.
• API management and gateway: MuleSoft / Anypoint, gateway policies, rate limiting / throttling, versioning, and API security (OAuth2 / OIDC, mTLS, keys).
• Event-driven architecture: webhooks, publish/subscribe, message queues / streaming.
• Identity and entitlements: Okta, Saviynt; coarse- vs fine-grained access for external users.
• Integration monitoring / observability and B2B / partner-API onboarding.
• Experience with data transformation, canonical data models, ETL/ELT processes, and Snowflake integrations.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated deployments.
• Experience integrating Salesforce, SAP/ERP, eCommerce, Order Management, and customer-facing platforms.
• Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Good judgment, time-management, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively on a technical team.
• Patience and empathy when working with and coaching developers and testers.
• Extensive experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations, and teams.
• Able to align distributor / partner integration requirements with Eaton architecture guardrails.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills, including explaining and presenting technical concepts to all levels of the organization.

Nice to have

• General-purpose language proficiency (e.g., Java) a plus.
• Good to have knowledge in Azure cloud integration services, cloud-native integration patterns, and hybrid architecture.