Application & Integration Architect

ARHS; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Arηs Group, part of Accenture, specializes in enterprise integration, API management, and data exchange across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises. The role requires strong architectural leadership, governance, and hands-on design experience in large-scale integration projects.

The candidate will define standards, drive DevSecOps practices, and lead teams through architecture life cycles while aligning technical solutions with business goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of IT experience, with at least 5 years in an Enterprise Integration Architect role.
• At least 2 certifications from the listed set.
• Experience as lead architect for at least one enterprise integration deployment.
• Expert knowledge of data/API integration and integration patterns.
• Hands-on with integration platforms and related tooling (EA, ARIS, SOA, cloud/in‑prem).
• Excellent communication, documentation, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture standards, principles and governance frameworks.
• Design and communicate enterprise-wide integration architectures, connectors, APIs, service bus solutions and data exchange mechanisms.
• Elicit business, user and technical requirements and translate into scalable integration designs.
• Plan and optimize integration platform capacity, security, performance and availability.
• Lead development teams and contribute to DevSecOps practices.
• Prepare architecture documentation and executive presentations.
• Select technologies, tools and standards and monitor system metrics.

Skills

Enterprise integration

Architectural design

TOGAF

UML

SOA

Cloud & on‑prem

DevSecOps

Leadership

Communication

Education

Iasa Architect CITA-A

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

TIBCO Certified Associate

Certified SOA Architect

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

ARIS Architect

TIBCO

MuleSoft

Job description

Arηs Group, Part of Accenture, specializes in the management of complex public sector IT projects, including systems integration, informatics and analytics, solution implementation and program management. Our team helps lead clients through digital and information systems design, bringing expertise in a variety of areas ranging from software development, data science and security management to machine learning, cloud, and mobile development.
Arηs Group was acquired by Accenture in July 2024.

Job Description

• Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture standards, principles and governance frameworks.
• Design and communicate enterprise-wide integration architectures, connectors, APIs, service bus solutions and data exchange mechanisms.
• Elicit business, user and technical requirements and translate them into scalable integration architectures.
• Design integration flows, services and interoperability solutions across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.
• Plan and optimize integration platform capacity, security, performance and availability.
• Analyse existing systems, applications and services and identify integration opportunities and solution options.
• Map business goals, project benefits, priorities, components and system features into architectural designs.
• Maintain and track architectural artefacts throughout the systems lifecycle.
• Contribute to system design, testing, quality assurance, change management and DevSecOps practices.
• Prepare architecture documentation, technical specifications and executive presentations.
• Lead development teams and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes.
• Select, assess and recommend technologies, tools, platforms and integration standards.
• Collect, analyse and interpret system and platform metrics.
• Optimize solutions from performance, security, scalability and quality perspectives.
• Contribute to the Enterprise Architecture repository and maintain required architectural artefacts.

Qualifications

Mandatory:

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant IT professional experience, minimum 5 of whichin a similar Enterprise Integration Architect position.
• At least 2 certifications among:
  • Iasa Architect CITA-A,
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert,
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals,
  • TIBCO Certified Associate,
  • Certified SOA Architect,
  • or equivalent, internationally recognized certification.
• Experience acting as the lead architect for at least one enterprise-wide integration platform deployment.
• Expert knowledge of system integration architecture at data and API levels.
• Expert knowledge of designing enterprise integration platform connectors, integration flows and enterprise service bus solutions.
• Expert knowledge of capacity planning and security architecture for integration platforms.
• Good knowledge of integration patterns, standards and architectural models.
• Good knowledge of serverless and containerisation technologies across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Excellent technical knowledge of integration platforms such as TIBCO or MuleSoft, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), databases, application servers, middleware technologies, cloud integration patterns and Software Development Lifecycle methodologies.
• Good knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and system architecture design practices.
• Good knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices.
• Extensive experience aligning application and integration architectures with business objectives.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, ARIS Architect or equivalent solutions.
• Good knowledge of architectural standards and frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman Framework, Azure Well-Architected Framework or equivalent.
• Good knowledge of hybrid systems and application integration approaches.
• Excellent communication, documentation, leadership and problem-solving skills.

Advantageous:

• Experience modelling enterprise architectures using ArchiMate.
• Experience with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) or other interinstitutional interoperability frameworks.
• Experience applying enterprise architecture styles, patterns and reference architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native integration services and API management platforms.
• Experience working within large-scale public sector or international organisation environments.

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