Lead Integration Architect Manager
Mars · Guararema, São Paulo, Brazil
**Job Description** **Key Responsibilities** * People Leadership \& Associate Development * Lead, inspire, and manage a high\-performing global team of T1 and T2 Technical Architects specializing in Azure IS, SAP BTP IS, MuleSoft, Solace, and OpenText. * Drive the professional development of your team by creating robust Individual Development Plans (IDPs), defining technical training paths, and facilitating advanced certifications. * Conduct regular performance reviews, offer structured technical and leadership coaching, and cultivate an inclusive engineering culture aligned with our Five Principles. * Perform resource capacity planning and talent acquisition, managing the mix of internal Associates and external consulting resources to meet enterprise demands. * Platform Strategy, Architecture \& Technical Governance * Partner with the Global Integration Hub Director to define, refine, and execute the global integration strategy and long\-term multi\-iPaaS technology roadmap. * Establish and run the Technical Design Authority (TDA) for integration, setting strict design patterns, reusable frameworks, and architectural guardrails for API\-led, event\-driven, and file\-based (B2B EDI) interfaces. * Oversee and align platform\-level technical strategies, including: * Azure Integration Services (Azure IS): Orchestrating secure cloud\-native pipelines. * SAP BTP Integration Suite (SAP BTP IS): Enforcing "Clean Core" standards and transitioning legacy SAP PI/PO interfaces. * MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: Governing global API management, security, and developer portals. * Solace PubSub\+: Managing the global real\-time event\-driven mesh structure. * OpenText: Directing standard EDI/B2B patterns across global logistics networks. * Drive technical platform lifecycles, ensuring proactive upgrades, deprecation of legacy frameworks, and minimal platform\-level technical debt. * Day\-to\-Day Technical Operations \& Incident Management * Serve as the ultimate engineering escalation point for critical P1/P2 production incidents, platform performance bottlenecks, and security exposures within the Integration Hub. * Maintain absolute visibility into daily platform performance, error rates, and environment health, holding your team accountable for proactive system tuning and optimized configurations. * Direct root\-cause analysis (RCA) investigations for major incidents, ensuring long\-term technical remediations are fully implemented across platforms to prevent recurrence. * Collaborate with DevOps and Platform squads to continuously improve release management, automated CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure\-as\-code deployments. * Segment Engagement \& Demand Alignment * Build and sustain strong relationships with Segment IT Architects, Solution Architects, and Digital Technologies leads across global business areas. * Serve as a strategic technical advisor during early project discovery phases, converting high\-level segment demands into optimal integration architecture recommendations. * Ensure your team of architects is aligned to support segment timelines, validating that segment\-led integration builds adhere fully to corporate architecture guidelines. * Vendor Relationships, Budgets \& Cross\-Charges * Manage technical partner relationships with core platform vendors (e.g., Microsoft, SAP, MuleSoft, Solace) to ensure high\-quality software support and alignment with their technology roadmaps. * Oversee the technical delivery of strategic platform SI partners and system integration vendors, evaluating contract compliance and technical output. * Collaborate with the Director on budgeting, tracking platform licensing fees, forecasting cloud usage, and coordinating internal cross\-charges across segments based on platform resource consumption. **Required Experience \& Qualifications** **Leadership \& Management Experience** * People Leadership: Minimum of 3\+ years of experience directly managing technical teams (architects, senior developers, or platform engineers) in a global, distributed environment. * Strategic Thinker: Proven track record of translating complex corporate business strategies into actionable, long\-term technical architectures and platform goals. * Associate Development: Demonstrated success in coaching, mentoring, and structurally upskilling junior and senior technical professionals. **Industry \& Domain Expertise** * CPG/FMCG Domain Knowledge: 8\+ years of integration experience, with substantial exposure to global Consumer Packaged Goods or high\-volume manufacturing environments. * Core Business Flow Familiarity: Deep understanding of global supply chain processes, including Order\-to\-Cash (O2C), Procure\-to\-Pay (P2P), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and GS1 standards. **Technical Stack \& Platform Expertise** * Multi\-Platform Architect Mastery: Strong, hands\-on background (historically or currently) in at least two of the following, and high literacy in the remaining: * Azure IS (Logic Apps