Architect V, Integration

Kaiser Permanente; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente seeks an Architect V, Integration to lead enterprise integration strategy across on-prem and cloud environments. You will guide API-led, event-driven, and SOA approaches, partnering with stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while aligning with modernization goals.

Responsibilities include governance, architecture standards, roadmaps, and mentoring teams to adopt best practices across business and IT. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years experience with data and integration technologies (ESB ETL, EAI, EII).
• Minimum three years experience with multiple payload types (XML, JSON, X12, Delimited, Fixed, Binary).
• Minimum three years experience with API Management or SOA implementations.
• Minimum three years experience designing target state enterprise architecture.
• Minimum two years experience with modeling techniques (BPMN, UML, ER).
• Minimum three years translating requirements into architecture requirements.
• Minimum two years in technical leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for integration strategy across complex environments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design scalable, secure integration solutions.
• Develop architecture artifacts and roadmaps for integration initiatives.
• Govern integration standards and drive modernization efforts.
• Present architecture guidance to leadership and teams.

Skills

Ambiguity management

Attention to detail

Business knowledge

Communication

Critical thinking

Cross-group collaboration

Decision making

Dependability

Diversity and inclusion

Drives results

Facilitation skills

Health care industry

Influencing others

Integrity

Learning agility

Organizational savvy

Problem solving

Teamwork

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

ESB ETL

API Management

UML

SOA

System integration tools

Job description

Technical Summary:

The Architect V, Integration is a senior enterprise architecture role responsible for establishing and advancing the organization's integration strategy across complex business and technology environments. This position partners closely with business stakeholders, application development teams, infrastructure organizations, and enterprise architecture leaders to design scalable, secure, and reliable integration solutions that connect enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and SaaS services. The role provides technical leadership for API-led, event-driven, and service-oriented integration architectures, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, modernization initiatives, and long-term technology objectives. As a key contributor to strategic technology decisions, the Architect V drives integration architecture governance, promotes best practices, and supports the delivery of business capabilities through effective hybrid integration solutions spanning on-premises and cloud-based environments.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for leading architecture for systems requiring complex integration solutions by working with other application architects to determine the best appropriate integration methods, and providing best practices for applications requiring messaging, services, batch, ETL integrations. Some of the unique challenges this position will face include leading delivery of all types of integration solutions in short amount of time with limited guidance.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Defines and communicates the architecture standards, guidelines, and statements of direction by facilitating the design and establishment of architecture standards or controls.
• Reviews and contributes to architecture standards or controls which allow business needs to be met.
• Creates architectures for large scale, high-impact, or high-cost technology solutions by collaborating with other architects to develop the target state.
• Leads the development of solution architectures, roadmaps, and system transition plans to align business, applications, data, integration, and/or infrastructure architecture.
• Collaborates with project teams and business users to create architecture artifacts (for example, logical, conceptual, physical) to guide detailed design.
• Participates in the adoption of new high-impact technologies by researching technical trends and developments.
• Helps determine the selection of technologies.
• Collaborates with IT and business leadership and participates in making decisions regarding new technology.
• Demonstrates a full understanding of the architecture best practices for assigned domain(s) and educates others throughout the organization on the function of architecture methodologies, governance, and standards by serving as a subject matter expert across business and/or IT teams, and presenting to internal and external audiences, including senior leadership.
• Develops reports for executives, business leaders, and IT management to communicate the impact of architecture practices.
• Coordinates with architects and other stakeholders to facilitate the continuous development and drive consensus on changes to the companys architecture practices.
• Develops and establishes architectural best practices that guide the design of technology solutions.
• Contributes to the development of the architecture strategy and technology direction by providing domain knowledge on solutions and technology.
• Provides expertise and shares an understanding of current capability gaps, architectural gaps, and market and industry trends that can be used to set future direction.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• System and Technology Integration
• Analytical Skills
• Application Design, Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Client Focus
• Client and Domain Knowledge
• Creating Architecture Clarity
• Demonstrating Personal Flexibility
• Information Architecture
• Information Gathering
• Innovative Mindset
• Managing Diverse Relationships
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Modeling
• Organizational Skills
• Prioritization
• Project Management
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Solution Delivery
• Technical Communication
• Technical Documentation

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years experience working with data and integration technologies (e.g., ESB ETL, EAI, EII).
• Minimum three (3) years experience working with multiple payload types (e.g., XML, JSON, X12, Delimited, Fixed Format, Binary).
• Minimum three (3) years experience working with API Management and/or SOA implementations.
• Minimum three (3) years experience in the design of target state architecture in a corporate or enterprise environment.
• Minimum two (2) years experience with modeling techniques (e.g., BPMN, UML, ER).
• Minimum three (3) years experience translating solution requirements into technical architecture requirements.
• Minimum two (2) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, Business, or related technical field and Minimum eight (8) years IT experience delivering technical solutions, including at least Minimum four (4) years working on projects related to IT architecture. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years experience in the integration of mobile applications with enterprise systems.
• Three (3) years experience in the integration of eCommerce applications with enterprise systems.