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Senior Technical Lead

A Senior Technical Lead ensures IT architectural integrity and functions as the interface between systems developers and IT project managers. The Senior Technical Lead provides coordination, oversight and leadership for the analyses, planning, design, implementation, documentation, assessment, and management of IT architecture and infrastructure design framework to align IT approaches with an organization's mission, goals and business processes. The Senior Technical Lead will develop reference models of the enterprise and maintain the information in the IT repository; determine the gaps between the current and the target architecture and develop plans for transitioning to target architecture; define the policies and principles to guide technology decisions for the enterprise architecture; identify opportunities to improve enterprise-level systems to support business processes and utilize emerging technologies; promote and educate customers and stakeholders on the use and value of the enterprise architecture; provide enterprise architecture guidance, support and coordination to customers and IT project teams; document the enterprise architecture infrastructure, including the business units and key processes, using modeling techniques; ensure technical integration is achieved across the enterprise by participating in test planning, validation and reviews; evaluate the impact of enterprise architecture products and services on IT investments, business operations, stakeholder satisfaction and other outcomes; coordinate and conduct governance and portfolio management activities associated with ensuring compliance with the enterprise architecture; and ensure the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principles and practices to all components of the enterprise architecture.

The Senior Technical Lead will possess knowledge and experience in organizational mission, IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture principles and reference models, and program management principles sufficient to participate in the development of organizational enterprise architecture goals, objectives, plans and policies; organizational enterprise architecture models, policies and planning formulation process, strategic and IT goals and objectives, and IT program metrics and measurement techniques sufficient to ensure enterprise-level IT specifications align with the organizational business requirements, identify potential improvements to enterprise architecture to meet organizational goals, and establish and implement metrics for evaluating the accomplishments of enterprise architecture goals and objectives; methods and approaches for sharing information through the use of IT assets, project management concepts, methods and practices, enterprise architecture concepts and principles, and multiple IT disciplines sufficient to develop major components of the enterprise architecture plan including strategic drivers, current and target architectures, the sequencing plan, architectural segments and reference models and standards; technical documentation methods; and speak and write effectively and prepare effective reports.

Skilled in overseeing end-to-end technical architecture for integrations supporting Procurement platforms, including Finance ERP systems, vendor master data, Single Sign-On (SSO), Identity Management (IDM), and document management systems.

Skilled in defining integration patterns, API standards, message structures, data transformation rules, and error-handling frameworks.

Skilled in developing architectural artifacts, including system diagrams, data flow maps, and integration frameworks.

Skilled in evaluating contractor-provided technical designs and ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture principles and security requirements.

Skilled in designing, developing, and optimizing APIs (REST, SOAP, and GraphQL where applicable) to support procurement workflows, vendor onboarding, catalog synchronization, approvals, and spend management.

Ability to oversee and support integration layers, including Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), and API Gateway technologies.

Ability to ensure seamless data exchange with upstream and downstream systems, including ERP systems.

Skilled in establishing standards for API versioning, authentication, authorization, and monitoring.

Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-resolution skills related to complex integration issues, latency problems, security token failures, data mismatches, and workflow breakdowns.

Skilled in defining data mapping rules, master data synchronization schedules, and data validation logic.

Ability to establish and maintain data governance guidelines related to vendor master data, procurement categories, chart of accounts, and approval hierarchies.

Ability to conduct impact analyses for changes to data models, interfaces, and integration endpoints.

Skilled in applying and enforcing API security standards and protocols, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, SAML, and RBAC.

Ability to ensure system integrations comply with organizational security policies, auditing requirements, and applicable compliance standards.

Technical leadership and problem-resolution skills to support serving as a technical escalation point for implementation projects and production support cycles.

Ability to manage and coordinate vendor technical teams to ensure the timely and quality delivery of integration components.

Skilled in establishing and enforcing coding standards, integration testing protocols, and API performance benchmarks.

Ability to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for integration deployments.

Skilled in load testing, failover testing, and performance tuning of integration components.

Technical documentation skills, including the development of API specifications, data dictionaries, sequence diagrams, troubleshooting guides, and operational runbooks.

Training and knowledge transfer skills related to long-term system maintenance, current and target-state architecture, sequencing plans, architectural segments, reference models, and technology standards.

This classification must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience aligning IT systems with organizational business processes. At least four (4) years of that experience must have been in a lead capacity.

8+ years of hands-on experience in complex system integration and API engineering. 3+ years of experience serving as a technical lead on large enterprise solution implementations, preferably involving procurement, finance, or ERP systems.

2+ years of experience with RESTful API design, JSON/XML standards, OAuth 2.0, API gateways, and modern iPaaS/ESB platforms.

2+ years of experience utilizing scripting and development languages such as Java, Python, C#, or Node.js.

2+ years of experience integrating with major ERP systems and vendor management platforms.

3+ years of experience supporting procurement workflows, including sourcing, requisition-to-purchase order, vendor onboarding, contracts, catalogs, and invoice processing.

2+ years of experience with data governance, ETL/ELT practices, and integration monitoring tools.

2+ years of experience implementing procurement platforms such as Coupa, Jaggaer, Ariba, Ivalua or similar solutions.

1 or more years of experience preparing technical documentation and communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

This classification requires the possession of a bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Work is expected to be performed onsite, and candidates must be available to report to the designated work location throughout the term of the assignment.