As our Integration Architect, you will have the global responsibility for our corporate integration strategy and platform. The primary role will be to manage and contribute to achievement of targets in business through seamless integrations and ensure a holistic solution combining IT and business perspective. Your role is to translate business needs to integration solutions and enable business areas to identify and make use of opportunities to automate and digitalize processes to improve efficiency for employees and leaders.

You will work closely with our product owners and solution architects, and have a key role in the achievement of strategic targets. Digitalization is an essential part of our strategy for further growth and development, and you will make a real impact on our digital transformation.

 

Most important areas of responsibility:

• Design and develop a global application integration architecture blueprint for the organization
• Translate business needs to IT solutions and own the overall technical vision
• Standardize procedures and contribute to automate business processes
• Accountable for operations and support of the technical integration platform
• Develop procedures and guidelines for best practice for integration development

 

Qualifications required for the position:

• Bachelor or master's degree in business economics, information systems or equivalent work experience
• Knowledge of integration architecture and data architecture standards, frameworks, and practices
• Relevant experience from IT development processes and implementation projects
• Experience within ESB or iPaaS software (preferably Webmethods) and integration methods and technologies (Web services, SOAP, JSON, XML, XSD)
• Experience working with API's from commercial software applications (CRM, ERP etc.)
• Good communication skills in Norwegian and English

 

We are looking for a quick learner who can understand and engage in problem solving in new processes and areas. You are comfortable in an autonomous role where you can take initiative and responsibility. You prefer a structured and transparent work style, and you have the ability to document solutions. It is important to us that you have a service-oriented attitude and communicative skills that enable you to collaborate well with colleagues across the organization.

The position reports to Head of Business Applications in Elkem IT and is located in Oslo, Kristiansand or Lyon.