Integration & Data Architect

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City of London
2 months ago
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Role Purpose

The Technical, Integration & Data Architect will serve as the single technical authority evaluating shortlisted SaaS ERP platforms. The role will assess solution architecture, systems integration, security alignment, and data migration feasibility, ensuring reliable integration with the existing enterprise landscape, compliance with security and data‑sovereignty requirements, and safe, auditable migration of financial data from legacy systems.


Responsibilities

  2. Technical Architecture Assessment

    • Evaluate core technical architecture of shortlisted ERP platforms, including cloud‑native design, SaaS operating model, extensibility, configuration boundaries, scalability, resilience, and availability.
    • Assess alignment with enterprise architecture principles and cloud security best practices.
    • Identify architectural constraints, assumptions, and long‑term risks.


  3. Integration Capability and Tooling

    • Evaluate maturity and suitability of APIs (REST, event‑driven, bulk interfaces), ETL and data‑integration tooling, and middleware or iPaaS options.
    • Define and evaluate integration proofs of capability for key interfaces: exchange of financial journals, patterns for near‑real‑time vs batch, error handling, retries, reconciliation, monitoring, and operational support.


  4. Security, IAM, and Data Sovereignty

    • Assess alignment with security & compliance expectations: SSO, role‑based access, least privilege, encryption, key management, platform controls, logging, monitoring, auditability.
    • Confirm data‑residency and data‑sovereignty compliance, and identify risks and mitigations.


  5. Data Migration and Legacy Transition

    • Assess feasibility of migrating financial data (opening balances, historical transactions, reference and master data).
    • Review migration approaches: data mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, cutover strategy, rollback plan, and platform support.


  6. Proofs of Capability and Evidence Review

    • Define objectives and success criteria for integration and data proofs.
    • Evaluate vendor submissions against technical realism, operational robustness, prior use evidence, and challenge unsupported assertions.


  7. Scoring, Risk Identification, and Governance

    • Score candidate solutions against agreed criteria.
    • Document assumptions, exclusions, dependencies, risks.
    • Provide input into overall solution scoring and recommendation, and contribute to the System Selection Report with defensible technical rationale.



Key Deliverables

  • Technical architecture assessment inputs and scored evaluation matrices.
  • Defined integration proof and data proof criteria.
  • Assessment of integration feasibility and risks.
  • Data migration feasibility assessment and risk log.
  • Contributions to the final System Selection Report.

Required Skills and Experience

Essential



  • Proven experience as Technical Architect, Integration Architect, or Data Architect.
  • Hands‑on experience integrating SaaS ERP platforms with enterprise systems.
  • Expertise in API‑based and ETL‑based integration patterns.
  • Experience designing or assessing ERP data migration strategies.
  • Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, and data‑protection principles.
  • Objective evaluation and clear evidence documentation.

Desirable



  • Experience with Tier‑1 SaaS ERP platforms (Dynamics 365 Finance, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, Oracle Fusion, Unit4 ERPx).
  • Experience in regulated or security‑conscious environments.
  • Experience supporting formal system‑selection or procurement exercises.

Key Competencies and Behaviours

  • Technically rigorous – probes beyond surface architecture diagrams.
  • Evidence‑led – prioritises demonstrable capability over vendor claims.
  • Risk‑aware – identifies integration and data risks early.
  • Clear communicator – explains technical findings to non‑technical stakeholders.
  • Governance‑conscious – understands auditability and decision traceability.

Benefits

  • Work on cutting‑edge technologies and impactful projects.
  • Opportunities for career growth and development.
  • Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
  • Competitive salary and benefits package.

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