Cloud Integration Architect

Perdue Foods is part of Perdue Farms, a family-owned company heading into its second century of growth and innovation. With a goal of becoming the most trusted name in premium proteins, we create products for consumers and for retail and foodservice customers around the globe, while changing the way animals are raised for food.

Summary

We are recruiting for a Cloud Integration Architect.

• Responsible for creating integration architectures that connect various SAP and non-SAP systems, ensuring seamless data flow and process automation across cloud and on-premises environments
• Ensuring connectivity between SAP and non-SAP systems, leveraging APIs, web services, and middleware
• Monitoring and optimizing the performance of integration solutions to meet business requirements
• Implement security measures and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations
• Maintain application landscape design, ensuring applications fit well together.
• Review yearly audit results and recommend solutions to ensure resolution and compliance in future audits.
• Collaborate with other architects and IT teams to create and maintain proper application documentation.
• Ensure that the key business applications like SAP S/4HANA system is used to its full capability based on business requirements.
• Develop a strong relationship with the Information Security team, to assist them in keeping the enterprise network secure.
• During unplanned downtime events, this role will be a point of escalation, offering expert technical guidance as needed.
• Provide guidance and expertise to Project Workstream throughout the entire project life cycle.
• Work on end-to-end Integration scenarios Involving S4HANA on RISE Private Cloud, ECC, SAP SuccessFactors, event-driven architecture and enterprise messaging SAP Event Mesh, Snowflake and Other third-party applications.
• Hands on Experience with REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, ODATA, XSLT and OAuth authentication, SFTP, JDBC, IDOCs, SOAP, Azure, HTTP/HTTPS, SAP BTP and Cloud Connector.
• Experience with Groovy Script for Custom integration logic
• Good Knowledge in event-driven architecture and enterprise messaging SAP Event Mesh
• Experience in implementing Integration (A2A/B2B), TPM (Trading Partner Management) and Integration Advisory tools (MIG/MAG)

The salary range for this position is $126,000 - $190,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance).

In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1 year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vison, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off.

This role is onsite at our Corporate Salisbury, MD offices. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Knowledge of integration technologies such as web services, API management, event integration, and middleware hands-on experience
• Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot and resolve integration issues.
• Create, manage, secure and socialize API's to power digital transformation on premises and across clouds
• Maintain an efficient technical environment for all customer services, document all architectural plans, as well as provide support for all functions and the installation of system components
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Set document standards and oversee maintenance of documentation for all components of the application landscape. Ensure adoption of these standards, and consolidation of all documentation are completed and regularly maintained.
• Stay current with latest technology trends, SAP S/4HANA latest developments, and best practices. Evaluate new technologies and recommend innovative solutions to improve business processes and drive digital transformation
• Collaborate with Information Security team to ensure security standards are adopted and maintained throughout the integration landscape.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise to project teams. Collaborate with developers, consultants, and business analysts to ensure the successful delivery of IT solutions
• Mentor others in IT, focusing on design, planning, development, and technical knowledge transfer.
• Provide architectural guidelines and best practices in moving integrations from SAP PI to CPI landscape.
• Define integration strategy for various application including Concur, SuccessFactors, Azure SQL server, SAP Datasphere, Snowflake and Blue Yonder.
• Work directly with multiple levels within the IT, Perdue business, and Vendor organizations to understand all components of external integrations
• Analytics integration - including SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and SAP BW/HANA

Minimum Education and Experience Required

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Management Information System or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of experience designing and implementing cloud integrations
• 2+ years of experience with cloud solution design
• Proven experience as an SAP S/4HANA Integration Architect, with a track record of successful implementations.
• In-depth knowledge of SAP S/4HANA modules, including Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, and Manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of SAP best practices, methodologies, and tools.
• Knowledge of Information Security best practices and how they are implemented to protect on- premises and cloud-based applications.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and abilities of new technologies

Preferred:

• Cloud certifications
• SAP S/4HANA certification is highly desirable.
• iPaas integration experience i.e. MuleSoft, Boomi, Jitterbit..etc.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in an open-partition cubical environment and from home.
• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
• Ability to work weekends, evenings, and holidays as required.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.