What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Solutions Architect – Enterprise Integrations position at Hollstadt Consulting?
Minnesota - Architect
Hollstadt Overview
Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.
Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.
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Role: IT Solutions Architect - Enterprise Integrations (Contract for Hire)
Location: Hybrid in Oak Park Heights, MN
Rate: $88 - $94/hour W2, dependent on skills and qualifications
Role Summary:
Lead the design, and implementation of enterprise-wide integration strategy solutions across diverse platforms and environments. Ensure seamless data flow and interoperability between internal systems, third-party applications, and cloud services.
Key Responsibilities:
Influence and Change Leadership: Proven ability to influence technology strategy and architectural decisions across large organizations. Skilled at communicating complex technical concepts to executive leaders, business stakeholders, architects, and engineers. Capable of driving organizational change, challenging the status quo, building consensus among diverse stakeholder groups, and leading adoption of new processes, standards, and technologies. Demonstrated success operating autonomously and translating strategic objectives into actionable outcomes while building strong networks of influence across the enterprise.
- Effectively communicate the value, business outcomes, and risk mitigation associated with technology investments and architectural modernization initiatives.
- Define integration strategies and enterprise modernization of its integration architecture with a focus on Event Driven Architecture (i.e Kafka) and external data sharing.
- Architect and implement integration frameworks and solutions using Azure, MuleSoft, messaging queues, REST/SOAP, EDI, SFTP, and database adapters.
- Define and enforce integration patterns, security protocols, and governance models.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable integration designs.
- Monitor and optimize integration performance using tools like Anypoint Platform, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Key Vault.
- Oversee design enterprise integration capabilities between related manufacturing application platforms.
- Accountable to ensure architectural diagrams are created in support of major system to system integration flows.
- Provides advanced technical expertise, oversight and accountability for resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with support teams.
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in integration technologies.
Required Skills:
- Deep understanding of SOA, microservices, and cloud-native integration development practices.
- Experience with Event Driven Architecture.
- Proficiency in Azure Integration services, API management, and IAM.
- Experience with internal platform integration (ERP, CRM, and financial systems integration), and external business integrations.
- Effective writing and communication skills and creating presentations and documenting architecture roadmaps, and strategic recommendations.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling business language that enables informed decision-making at all levels of the organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10 years in enterprise architecture or integration roles.
- Proven experience with Azure (APIM, Functions, Azure Service Bus), MuleSoft Anypoint Platform development and architecture design.
- Strong understanding of integration technologies including Azure, MuleSoft, and B2B integrations.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
Benefits Perks
Comprehensive Benefit Plan
Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!
Remarketing Process
Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.
Professional Development
Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
401k Matching
One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.
Bonus Opportunities
We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!
Ongoing Support & Networking
We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.
Salary : $88 - $94