Principal Tech Solution Architect Integration US

Philip Morris International; Albarraque; On-site; EUR 125,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Philip Morris International is hiring a Principal Tech Solution Architect - Integration to define and drive the integration architecture strategy across our Consumer and Commercial platforms. You will shape how APIs, events, applications, and AI-powered capabilities interact to deliver secure, scalable business solutions.

You will provide architectural leadership, establish integration standards, and enable autonomous product teams to innovate at speed while ensuring connectivity, resilience,

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise integration and solution architecture experience in large-scale digital ecosystems.
• Deep expertise in microservices, cloud-native architecture, and domain-driven design.
• Strong security architecture expertise, with ability to design and govern data access and zero-trust principles.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as Mulesoft, Solace, Kafka; AWS & API management.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions across teams and domains.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern integration architecture strategy across consumer and commercial platforms.
• Provide architectural leadership and establish standards and best practices.
• Enable autonomous product teams to innovate while ensuring connectivity and resilience.
• Translate business requirements into scalable integration architectures.
• Collaborate with security, product management and engineering teams on future-state architecture.
• Present architecture decisions at governance forums and ARBs.
• Lead PoC initiatives to validate target architecture.

Skills

Enterprise integration

Microservices

Cloud-native architecture

Security architecture

Mulesoft

Kafka

Solace

AWS

API management

Identity and access management

Observability

Architecture governance

Tools

Mulesoft

Solace

Kafka

AWS

API Management

Job description

Location: UK, Portugal or Krakow At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’ve transformed our business and are building our future on one clear purpose—to deliver a smoke-free future.

Location: UK, Portugal or Krakow At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’ve transformed our business and are building our future on one clear purpose—to deliver a smoke-free future. With huge change comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

We are looking for a Principal Tech Solution Architect - Integration to define and drive the integration architecture strategy across our Consumer and Commercial platforms. In this role, you will shape how APIs, events, applications, AI-powered capabilities, and enterprise systems interact to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient business solutions. You will provide architectural leadership, establish integration standards and best practices, and enable autonomous product teams to innovate at speed while ensuring seamless connectivity, resilience, and cost-effective operations across the technology landscape.

Your Day to Day

• Partner with domain architecture and Global Product Group Architect to define and govern architecture principles, decision frameworks for synchronous APIs, event-driven integrations, agent-to-agent communication patterns, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption to ensure scalable, resilient, and future-ready digital ecosystems.
• Partner with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to define product vision and guide teams toward delivering measurable customer value.
• Translate complex and evolving business requirements into robust, scalable, and high-performance integration architectures.
• Collaborate with Domain Architecture, Security, Product Management, and Engineering teams to define future-state architecture and technology strategy.
• Serve as the primary architecture liaison for governance, risk, compliance, and security stakeholders, ensuring alignment between integration solutions, enterprise standards, and control requirements.
• Identify improvement opportunities and advise Product Owners and Tech leads on integration roadmap evolution in US landscape.
• Assess the current system landscape, identify gaps, and propose forward-thinking architectural strategies.
• Drive PoC(s) by collaborating with Software Engineering team to achieve consistent and backed target Architecture.
• Present and defend Solution Outlines and key architecture decisions at Domain ARBs, technical councils, and governance forums.

Who We're Looking For

• Extensive enterprise integration and solution architecture experience in large-scale, product-centric digital ecosystems.
• Deep expertise in microservices and cloud-native architecture, including service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed systems, resiliency patterns, scalability, observability, and architecture governance across large-scale enterprise ecosystem
• Deep security architecture expertise, with the ability to design and govern fine-grained access to data exposed through APIs, events, MCP servers and AI agents. Strong knowledge of identity, authorization, policy enforcement, data classification, least-privilege and zero-trust principles.
• Experience with Mulesoft, Solace, Kafka or similar enterprise platforms; AWS, API management, identity and access management, security and observability.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, communicate complex architecture clearly and drive decisions across multiple teams and domains.

Nice to Have

AI agent orchestration; Agile and Product Operating Models.

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?

At PMI, We Believe Success To Be Fuelled By Our Employees, Depended On Them Coming To Work Every Single Day With a Sense Of Purpose And An Appetite For Challenge. We Are a People First Organisation Committed To Empowering You To Take Risks, Grow And Explore. Here’s What Sets Us Apart

• We’re redefining the big picture of well-being and personal development. We seek the best professionals but recognize them as parents, caregivers, family, and community members. We look after each other and care for our people, so wherever you join us around the world, we’re committed to providing the type of benefits only a company like PMI can offer
• Being the fastest learning organization in the world is core to our culture, so we invest significantly in developing our people. From mentoring to technical certifications, stretch roles, soft skills development, and executive education, we help our people develop the skills they need to do their best work and create their own unique impact.
• At PMI, we believe diversity and inclusiveness are essential to every industry. We’re proud that our culture is built upon strong corporate values, a foundation of respect and belonging, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion that welcomes a variety of skill sets, backgrounds, and experiences.

Every single employee is part of our Transformation journey. Join us and pursue your ambitions – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. If our culture and mindset resonate with you, we look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you.

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