Integration Platform Architect

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Software Engineering & Integration team (SE&I) is seeking an Integration Platform Architect to join the team in Atlanta, GA. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple technological and business capabilities in an integrated business team to deliver Integration solutions that support GP's business segments. Your work will play a key role in supporting our integration solutions and driving innovation for our business.

This role operates between the Enterprise Solution Architects and the domain Tech Leads, translating enterprise strategy into actionable technical direction and ensuring consistent execution across application Integration and B2B/EDI teams.

Location

This is a hybrid onsite role (3 days in office) based out of our Atlanta GP office.

Visa Sponsorship

If an applicant currently holds a VISA, they are not eligible for this role. This role is not open to VISA Sponsorship.

Our Team

GP's Software Engineering & Integration team's core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions and integrations. 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 them 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.

What You Will Do

• Accountable for designing, governing, and evolving how systems connect across the enterprise, ensuring integrations are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Partnering with business, product managers, domain architects and functional leads to design and deliver efficient integration solutions.
• Select the right integration platform and patterns for each use case.
• Review existing architecture designs across enterprise integration to identify gaps, risks, and technical debt, and propose redesigning where needed.
• Own technical decision-making for App integration and B2B integration (EDI), guiding the team through complex issues and clearing blockers to keep delivery moving.
• Utilizing strong problem solving and analytical skills as well as good written and verbal communication skills to discuss requirements, support, status updates, etc. to audiences including technical and non-technical users.
• Challenging the status quo and focusing on long-term value when designing solutions.
• Collaborating with various IT teams such as infrastructure support, networking, database administrators, and business teams to support the end-to-end SDLC.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Previous experience translating enterprise integration strategy into technical direction that simplifies platforms, enables AI adoption, and aligns EDI, API, and event-driven integrations with long-term architectural goals.
• Previous experience designing, building, and maintaining AWS-based cloud platforms, including security, networking, observability, and cost optimization.
• Previous experience overseeing large, complex integration platform ecosystems, providing architectural guidance across application Integration and platform engineering teams while identifying risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Experience applying best practices for API management and integration patterns, including error handling, logging, and working with common data formats such as XML, JSON, and EDI formats (ANSI X12, EDIFACT).
• Previous experience maintaining EDI/B2B platforms (e.g., IBM Sterling, Axway, OpenText), including upgrades, patching, and configuration management.
• Previous experience identifying high-value AI use cases, assessing data and process readiness, and designing AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Previous experience mentoring technical leads and engineers, influencing design decisions, while empowering teams to operate autonomously and deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM or a related field.
• Previous experience in modernizing integration platforms while maintaining production stability.
• Experience operating EDI platforms at large EDI partner scale with complex connectivity and security requirements.
• Previous experience implementing connections to various data sources using protocols such as JDBC, LDAP, JMS, SFTP, FTPS, EDIINT AS2, ODATA and VAN-based connectivity.
• Previous experience working with common EDI business transaction sets, such as Purchase Orders, Invoices, Advance Ship Notices (ASN), Shipping Notices, and Functional Acknowledgments (e.g., X12 850, 810, 856, 997/999).
• Previous experience with streaming platforms like Kinesis, Kafka, NATS.
• Previous experience enabling and scaling AI adoption by exposing integration through reusable, well governed integrations, APIs, and event streams that allow other teams and platforms to build integration much faster.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).