Retail Real-Time Integration Architect

Ulta Beauty; Bolingbrook (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ulta Beauty is seeking a Solution Integration Architect to lead scalable, real-time and event-driven integrations across core business processes. You will shape API-first, AI-enabled integration patterns that connect in-store, online, supply chain, and CRM systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with Kafka, TIBCO, Spring Boot, Apigee, and GraphQL, and a vision for modernizing integration landscapes to enable agile, innovative retail experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and delivering real-time and near real-time integrations across retail platforms.
• Ability to define architecture strategy aligned with omnichannel, supply chain, merchandising, and CRM needs.
• Hands-on expertise in event-driven architecture and API-first integration patterns.
• Proven ability to drive AI-enabled integration and intelligent automation initiatives.
• Strong collaboration with enterprise architects and engineering teams to govern and scale integration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the integration architecture strategy across platforms and systems.
• Design integration solutions for order management, inventory, loyalty, pricing, and vendor collaboration.
• Implement real-time and event-driven data flows using Kafka, TIBCO, and Spring Boot.
• Develop API standards and governance for lifecycle, versioning, cataloging, and reuse.
• Drive AI-enabled integration adoption for routing, data transformation, and automation.
• Lead design sessions with stakeholders to build scalable, reusable integration solutions.
• Establish integration governance, canonical models, and reusable services.
• Architect cross-environment (on-premise and hybrid) integration designs.

Skills

Retail integration experience

Real-time / near real-time integration

Event-driven architecture

API Design & management

AI-enabled integration

Tools

Apache Kafka

TIBCO

Spring Boot

API management (Apigee)

GraphQL

Job description

Ulta Beauty is seeking a Solution Integration Architect to lead scalable, real-time and event-driven integrations across core business processes. You will shape API-first, AI-enabled integration patterns that connect in-store, online, supply chain, and CRM systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with Kafka, TIBCO, Spring Boot, Apigee, and GraphQL, and a vision for modernizing integration landscapes to enable agile, innovative retail experiences.