At Henderson, We're About More Than Just BuildingsWe're about the people, experiences, and longevity of a building. We're a company of problem-solvers and innovators known for our technical excellence and ability to provide come up with out-of-the-box solutions when it comes to design and construction. We love the process of bringing buildings to life - and keeping them in shape long after the doors open.
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It's What We DoWe provide total building system design and construction services across multiple high-growth markets throughout the country for industry leaders. You'll get to use your talent to work on projects for some of the biggest names in mission-critical, higher education, sports, healthcare, grocery, restaurant, and retail within the sectors we serve in business, community, grocery, health, retail, and venue.
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Position SummaryThe Enterprise Integration Architect is responsible for the design, governance, development, and lifecycle management of the firm's enterprise integration ecosystem, ensuring business applications, platforms, and data services are connected through scalable, secure, and supportable integration solutions. This role establishes the long-term integration strategy, evaluates and recommends integration technologies and platforms, defines architectural standards, and provides hands-on leadership for the implementation of complex integration solutions. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, application portfolio leads, data teams, vendors, and business stakeholders, the Integration Architect ensures integration capabilities enable business objectives while maintaining scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
Essential Job Functions & AccountabilitiesEnterprise Integration Architecture & Strategy
- Own integration roadmap, operating model, governance, standards, reference architectures, and technology direction.
- Evaluate and recommend integration platforms, middleware technologies, API management solutions, and supporting tools.
- Lead proof-of-concepts, technical evaluations, and vendor assessments to support technology selection decisions.
- Define integration standards, reference architectures, governance practices, and approved design patterns.
- Establish the enterprise integration operating model and ensure solutions align with long-term business and technology strategies.
Integration Solution Design & Development
- Lead architecture reviews, approve designs, establish development standards, perform mentorship, and provide technical leadership for strategic initiatives.
- Design and develop complex integrations across SaaS applications, business systems, data platforms, and emerging technology solutions.
- Provide hands-on development for high-complexity integration initiatives, proof-of-concepts, and strategic technical projects.
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and supportability.
- Mentor technical resources and support knowledge transfer across the organization.
Integration Platform Operations & Reliability
- Ensure operational stability and reliability of enterprise integration services.
- Monitor integration performance, failures, system dependencies, and capacity considerations.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution efforts for critical integration issues.
- Establish operational support processes, diagnostics, monitoring standards, and recovery procedures.
- Drive continuous improvement activities that improve resiliency and reduce support burden.
Application & Data Connectivity Strategy
- Partner with application owners, business stakeholders, data teams, and vendors to define integration requirements and solution approaches.
- Develop reusable integration capabilities that reduce point-to-point complexity and technical debt.
- Guide API, event-driven, data exchange, and middleware strategies across the enterprise.
- Ensure integration solutions support enterprise data governance, security, and compliance requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes through better system connectivity and automation.
Portfolio Planning & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain and prioritize the integration architecture and enhancement backlog.
- Evaluate emerging integration technologies, platforms, and industry best practices.
- Support project planning and estimate effort, risks, dependencies, and implementation considerations.
- Provide visibility into integration priorities, risks, capacity constraints, and roadmap recommendations.
- Drive modernization initiatives that improve scalability, maintainability, and organizational agility.
Core CompetenciesCommunication
- Keeps others well informed and prioritizes audiences, accuracy, and timeliness.
- Facilitates an efficient, consistent workflow and exchange of information.
- Adjusts communication based on needs and make-up of audience.
Integrity
- Leads by example, challenges assumptions, and creates candid feedback loops.
- Aligns personal actions and words, extends and receives trust, and upholds commitments.
- Maintains the confidence of clients and colleagues, especially when handling sensitive information.
Quality Orientation
- Creates a sense of urgency to tackle problems and rewards responsiveness.
- Recognizes opportunity for improvement, creating and supporting processes and feedback to improve results.
- Holds others accountable for doing their best work.
Teamwork/Inclusion
- Promotes a culture of collaboration across roles and teams.
- Navigates difficult conversations with diplomacy and leverages cooperative efforts to resolve conflict.
- Confronts exclusionary behavior and participates productively in discussions of diverse, sensitive societal topics.
Continuous Learning
- Pursues challenging assignments and new knowledge.
- Encourages experimentation when faced with new challenges.
- Examines mistakes, clarifies lessons learned, and applies to future work.
Functional/Technical Expertise
- Leverages area of expertise to contribute to team and company goals.
- Promotes an environment where people openly share their expertise, experiences, opinions, ideas, and perspectives.
- Maintains knowledge, skills, and abilities relevant to success throughout job functions.
Leadership
INSPIRES THE ORGANIZATION- Personifies the values of the organization and champions organizational culture and vision, earnestly supporting and mobilizing decisions made by organizational leadership.
- Navigates ambiguity and change in a positive way, proactively seeking support from leadership when needed.
FOCUSES ON CLIENT EXPERIENCE - Fosters positive client relationships and coaches others to do the same, striving for best-in-class service and internal and external client satisfaction.
- Anticipates and responds proactively to changes in client needs, priorities, and/or expectations, ensuring quality results.
DEVELOPS THE STRENGTHS OF OTHERS- Demonstrates empathy and builds strong relationships with colleagues.
- Seeks and shares productive feedback with candor to help others grow, celebrating the effort, progress, and everyday wins of colleagues.
DRIVES ACCOUNTABILITY, QUALITY, AND INNOVATION - Expects and drives high-quality results and welcomes innovative strategies, especially in times of change.
- Models financially responsible behaviors and coaches others to be fiscally mindful as employee-owners.
Required Education, Experience, Licenses & Technical Competencies- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field required. Equivalent years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise integrations required.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise integrations using modern iPaaS and related integration technologies required.
- Experience leading enterprise integration platform selection, implementation, and governance required.
- Experience leading platform selection initiatives, including requirements definition, architecture assessments, vendor evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and implementation planning required.
- Experience implementing and supporting Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) and cloud-based platform solutions required.
- Experience designing and implementing solutions utilizing cloud platform and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities, including Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud ecosystems preferred.
- Strong understanding of integration architecture patterns including API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, message-based integrations, ETL/ELT processes, system orchestration, microservices, and enterprise application connectivity required.
- Experience integrating enterprise business systems including ERP, CRM, HCM, project management, document management, engineering applications, data platforms, and cloud-based SaaS solutions required.
- Experience with cloud-native integration services, API governance, identity and access management, and enterprise security principles preferred.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, data management, system design, technology governance, and solution lifecycle management principles required.
- Experience working across multiple business functions and technology domains required.
- Strong communication, documentation, prioritization, and organizational skills required.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable, supportable technical solutions required.
- Must demonstrate proficiency in all core competencies as described and characterized in this job description.
- Travel required <10% of the time.
Physical & Other Requirements- Other duties as assigned.
- Must be available during standard business hours for impromptu meetings, technical consultations, and urgent issue resolution.
- Prolonged periods of sitting or standing at a desk and working on a computer.
- Ability to read, write and communicate effectively in English.
Let's Talk PerksWe take care of our people. As a Henderson employee, you'll enjoy some pretty awesome perks. Trust us, your friends will all have work envy.
Culture- Flexible Work Hours (Because we all need to balance work and life.)
- Casual Dress Code (Be yourself, please.)
- Paid Volunteer Time (We literally pay you to volunteer.)
- Paid Parental Leave (Because we know both parents deserve to be there for a new child.)
- Health and Wellness Initiatives (Get Fit and Stay Fit.)
- Receptive and Forward-Thinking Leadership (Our doors are always open.)
- Clear Career Path Options (We want you to excel.)
Benefits- Industry-leading 401K match and profit sharing (When the company succeeds, we all share in that success.)
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (Yes, our employees are the owners.)
- Paid Training for Professional Development (We'll pay for the time you take getting better at what you do.)
- Performance Bonuses (When you do well, we reward you for your work.)
- Comprehensive and Extensive Insurance (We've got you covered.)
- Paid Term Life and Disability (We've got your family covered, too.)
- Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts (We'll help you take advantage of tax savings.)
- Paid Time Off and Sick Time off (Take a break. You deserve it!)
- Financial Wellness & Coaching Program (Financial security makes you a happier team member.)
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