Your Job
Georgia-Pacific’s Software Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team is looking for a n Integration S olution s Architect to join the team . In this role, you will collaborate with SE&I engineers and architects globally to create engineering standards that maximize the division of labor, allowing engineers to focus on their core strengths. This approach aims to boost efficiency and deliver higher returns through innovative technology solutions. The Solution s Architect will also develop technical and architectural roadmaps to modernize our legacy technology and drive transformational change. Additionally, you will work with multifunctional teams to provide solutioning services and create reference architectures based on successful solutions to address business challenges.
Location : This is a hybrid role based out of our GP H eadquarters in Atlanta, GA.
Our Team
GP’s Software Engineering & Integration team’s core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions. We recently initiated our transformation journey, creating functions and capabilities that enable engineers to have major impacts on GP’s business performance. We seek to build functionality once, so engineers are encouraged to re-use their peers’ work and modify then scale it to meet new use cases. We focus on delivering profitable business outcomes by partnering with business analysts, delivery leaders, and quality engineers to build the right solution at the right speed.

WHO YOU ARE (BASIC QUALIFICATIONS)

• Experience as a Solutions Architect, championing the evaluation, selection, implementation, and adoption of a new enterprise middleware platform within the organization; developing strategies, best practices, repeatable patterns , and other engineering standards
• Leadership experience influenc ing C-suite, other key stakeholders, and/or engineers
• Hands on experience and expertise in multiple middleware platforms utilizing various integration patterns such as event-driven, hub-and-spoke, publish-subscribe, and strea ming . Individual contributor , conducting experiments to prove out modern technical solutions.
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements, including knowledge of encryption, authentication, authorization, and data privacy
• U nderstanding of security standards including SAML, XACML, MASSL, OATH, WSTrust , OAUTH, OpenID Connect
• Proficient knowledge in API Management tools such as : AWS Gateway, Apigee, Kong, or another industry-leading management tool
• Proficient knowledge in Streaming Platforms such as : Kafka, Kinesis, NATS, or another industry streaming solution

• Participate and self-drive thought leadership in overall application and integration strategy efforts while partnering with IT leaders across the company.
• Define a menu of tech-stacks and engineering standards while understanding how cloud architecture impacts cost to run.
• Understanding the architecture of our integrations ; developing roadmaps that proactively addresses technical debt and modernizing our infrastructure that is aligned with our engineering standards.
• Conduct experiments to prove out modern technical solutions.
• Evaluate how GenAI can improve engineer productivity in developing integrations solutions.
• Develop reference architecture, design patterns, and boilerplates that provide guidelines and best practices for engineers, thus, freeing them to focus on delivering value.
• Partner with the engineers by helping them implement these best practices and drive standardization of technologies and tools to achieve enterprise simplification and re-use.
• Participate in the talent selection process for architects and engineers within the team.