Principal Engineer, Architect for Integration, Engineering, and Security

your adv; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Your adv is seeking an Architect for Integration, Engineering & Security to lead the architectural direction across enterprise applications and ERP integrations. You will partner with engineering and product teams to define architecture patterns that secure data and support AI-enabled initiatives.

Responsibilities include designing end-to-end data flows, enabling secure by design integrations, and contributing to enterprise governance and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10–12 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in integration architecture across apps and ERP systems.
• Knowledge of data flows, data models, and AI alignment.
• Experience with software selection and architecture patterns.
• Retail / CPG business domain knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural direction for enterprise applications across portfolios.
• Design end-to-end data flows between business systems and the AI platform.
• Ensure security requirements and secure-by-design architecture.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams as an embedded partner.
• Participate in enterprise architecture governance and standards.
• Advise on shared capability and user experience within applications.

Skills

Integration architecture

Data design

Software selection

Enterprise architecture

Retail domain

Revenue management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Architect for Integration, Engineering & Security Responsibilities

• Enterprise integration architecture:
• Own the architectural direction for the enterprise applications across application portfolios and their business units.
• This includes:
• Architecture for both custom-built applications and technology platforms
• Support software selection decisions
• Define architecture patterns
• Ensure architecture achieves information security requirements
• Work alongside engineering teams and product teams as an active, embedded partner in delivery
• Enterprise plan platform and AI architecture:
• Design the end-to-end data flows between commercial and corporate systems and the data and analytics / AI platform.
• This includes:
• Define flows of business operational data for analytics and management reporting and surfacing analytics data into company applications
• Ensure business systems are designed to support emerging AI use cases
• Define integration patterns for data that keep client and company data secure
• Architect the integration of external industry data sources into business applications
• Integration of security practices and architecture into application delivery:
• Plan and shape integrations between systems that are secure by design.
• This includes:
• Collaborate as peer with cybersecurity engineering teams
• Jointly design patterns and delivery approaches for maximizing information security
• Ensure coherent data and integration plans
• Shape plans for phases of application change between parallel implementation programs
• Architecture practice participation:
• Operate as an active member of the enterprise architecture practice.
• This includes:
• Collaborate with peer architects across commercial systems, enterprise systems, data/AI, and infrastructure/security
• Build, advocate, and participate in shared governance, architecture standards, and ways of working
• Contribute to keeping the practice coherent and relevant as the organizations technology agenda grows in complexity
• Business domain expertise:
• Bring working knowledge of retail and consumer packaged goods business processes.
• This includes:
• Have experience in technology and processes such as sales/customer relationship management, category management, retail execution, and field workforce management
• Build credibility as a technology advisor to business stakeholders based on industry operational reality
• Advise on building shared capability, reusability, and user experience within company applications

Qualifications

• Education Requirements: Bachelors degree
• Experience Requirements: 10-12 years experience in relevant field
• Travel requirement: No travel requirements Required Knowledge and SkillsIntegration architecture between custom / technology platform applications and enterprise resource planning systemsData design: Data flows, data model design, master data management principles, and AI technology affinitySoftware selection, pattern definition, and product team partnershipEnterprise and / or deep solution architecture for custom and technology platform applicationsBusiness domain expertise, such as retail, consumer packaged goods, field workforce management, services company service delivery, and revenue management

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled