: Senior Integration Solution Architect

Job Title: Senior Integration Solution Architect

Job Level: T2 (Senior Associate)

Segment Focus: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) / Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)

Location: Global Digital Technologies / Mars Global Services (MGS)

Employment Type: Full-time

About Us & Our Way of Working

At MARS, we are driven by a simple yet powerful belief: The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. As a family-owned, global leader in snacking, food, and pet care, we think in generations, not just financial quarters.

We dont just have employees; we have Associates. We operate in an egalitarian, collaborative, and highly open environment where voices are heard and potential is unlocked. How we achieve our goals is just as important as the goals themselves, which is why our business decisions are guided by The Five Principles: Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom.

As a Senior Integration Solution Architect, you will be a vital Associate within our global digital technologies team. Our mission is to move past traditional "technical-only" integration and build a team of Segment Domain Experts. In this role, you will not just connect systems; you will deeply immerse yourself in the operational logic of our distinct business segments to design a seamless digital fabric that connects our global supply chains, factories, brand operations, and retail partners.

The Five Principles in Action for This Role

- Quality: You will champion the delivery of robust, highly reliable, and secure integration solutions. By holding yourself and your partners to uncompromising standards, you will ensure our digital transactions flow flawlessly across our global value chain.
- Responsibility: You will take ownership of the integration landscape and proactively build your domain expertise. You will assume responsibility for defining best-practice design patterns, safeguarding our data, and mentoring junior Associates to help them grow.
- Mutuality: You will design integration frameworks with a "win-win" mindset. By understanding the commercial realities of our segments, you will ensure our systems operate seamlessly for us, our external retail partners, global suppliers, and third-party logistics providers.
- Efficiency: You will optimize our integration footprint, avoiding redundant custom builds by maximizing platform capabilities. Through API-led connectivity, reusable microservices, and automated workflows, you will help us deliver faster and with fewer resources.
- Freedom: Backed by our long-term generational perspective, you will have the creative freedom to innovate, experiment, and implement forward-looking, event-driven architectures that shape the future of our digital ecosystem.

Quality: You will champion the delivery of robust, highly reliable, and secure integration solutions. By holding yourself and your partners to uncompromising standards, you will ensure our digital transactions flow flawlessly across our global value chain. Responsibility: You will take ownership of the integration landscape and proactively build your domain expertise. You will assume responsibility for defining best-practice design patterns, safeguarding our data, and mentoring junior Associates to help them grow.

Mutuality: You will design integration frameworks with a "win-win" mindset. By understanding the commercial realities of our segments, you will ensure our systems operate seamlessly for us, our external retail partners, global suppliers, and third-party logistics providers.

Efficiency: You will optimize our integration footprint, avoiding redundant custom builds by maximizing platform capabilities. Through API-led connectivity, reusable microservices, and automated workflows,



you will help us deliver faster and with fewer resources.

Freedom: Backed by our long-term generational perspective, you will have the creative freedom to innovate, experiment, and implement forward-looking, event-driven architectures that shape the future of our digital ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

1. Integration Strategy & Domain Architecture (Freedom & Quality)

- Define, design, and govern enterprise-grade integration architectures across our hybrid-cloud ecosystem, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency.
- Act as a Segment Domain Expert: Deeply understand the business processes, data flows, and operational nuances of our core business segments (e.g., Petcare, Snacking, Food) to design integrations that solve real business problems.
- Architect end-to-end integration flows connecting core enterprise systems, including ERPs (SAP S/4HANA), CRMs (Salesforce), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and Retail POS systems.
- Champion API-Led Connectivity and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) as the foundational paradigms for global business operations.
- Establish reusable integration patterns, templates, and frameworks that accelerate time-to-market for digital initiatives across different business units.

1. Technology Leadership & Platform Governance (Efficiency & Quality)

- Provide deep architectural expertise and hands-on design leadership across our core integration platforms: SAP BTP Integration Suite (SAP BTP IS): Lead core ERP and cloud line-of-business integrations (e.g., Cloud Integration, API Management).

Azure Integration Services (Azure IS): Drive cloud-native workflows, event routing, and messaging using Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Azure API Management.

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: Govern API portfolios, design reusable RAML/OAS specs, and establish robust runtime engine deployments (CloudHub/hybrid).

Solace PubSub+: Design and implement real-time, high-performance event brokers and streaming frameworks for globally distributed supply chain and manufacturing operations.

OpenText: Architect secure, high-volume B2B integration networks and EDI systems to support transactional exchanges with global retailers and logistics partners.

- Collaborate with DevOps and Platform squads to implement modern, automated CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code for integration deployments.
- SAP BTP Integration Suite (SAP BTP IS): Lead core ERP and cloud line-of-business integrations (e.g., Cloud Integration, API Management).

- Azure Integration Services (Azure IS): Drive cloud-native workflows, event routing, and messaging using Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Azure API Management.
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: Govern API portfolios, design reusable RAML/OAS specs, and establish robust runtime engine deployments (CloudHub/hybrid).

- Solace PubSub+: Design and implement real-time, high-performance event brokers and streaming frameworks for globally distributed supply chain and manufacturing operations.
- OpenText: Architect secure, high-volume B2B integration networks and EDI systems to support transactional exchanges with global retailers and logistics partners.

1. Stakeholder Collaboration & Mutuality (Mutuality)

- Act as a trusted consultant to Business Partners, Functional Leads, and external partners, translating complex business processes into elegant technical designs.
- Partner closely with security, data privacy,



and compliance teams to enforce robust authentication standards (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), encryption at rest/transit, and compliance with global regulations (GDPR, CCPA).
- Present clear, value-driven architectural proposals to digital leadership, demonstrating how technology choices support business enablement.

1. Continuous Improvement & Associate Mentorship (Responsibility)

- Drive a culture of Domain Excellence within the technical team, encouraging developers and junior architects to build deep expertise in specific business segments and processes rather than remaining pure technical generalists.
- Keep a pulse on emerging industry trends, cloud paradigms, iPaaS innovations, and modern B2B integration capabilities, steering the technology roadmap accordingly.
- Establish a culture of shared learning; mentor junior integration architects and developers, conducting design reviews to elevate collective technical capability.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Industry & Domain Expertise (Mandatory)

- CPG/FMCG Sector Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of experience working within a global Consumer Packaged Goods, retail, or manufacturing enterprise (or serving such clients in an architectural consulting capacity).
- Segment Domain Mindset: Proven ability or strong desire to move beyond purely technical execution to become a true domain expert in core CPG business processes, specifically: Order-to-Cash (O2C): Customer orders, pricing, billing, and retail POS integrations.

Procure-to-Pay (P2P): Supplier interactions and procurement flows.

Supply Chain & Logistics: Logistics execution, 3PL/4PL integrations, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), inventory visibility, and product serialization (GS1 standards).

- Order-to-Cash (O2C): Customer orders, pricing, billing, and retail POS integrations.
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P): Supplier interactions and procurement flows.
- Supply Chain &

• Logistics: Logistics execution, 3PL/4PL integrations, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), inventory visibility, and product serialization (GS1 standards).

Technical Stack &

• Platform Expertise

- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: Solid experience designing and governing API-led connectivity, managing API policies, and configuring CloudHub.
- Azure Integration Services: Proven expertise with Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Azure APIM.
- SAP BTP Integration Suite: Deep hands-on experience integrating SAP environments (S/4HANA, ECC) with external cloud platforms and cloud LOBs (Ariba, SuccessFactors).
- Solace PubSub+: Experience implementing event mesh networks, real-time message routing, and publish/subscribe patterns.
- OpenText: Proven track record in B2B/EDI integration, automated document processing, and managed integration services (EDIFACT, ANSI X12, AS2, SFTP standards).
- Modern Protocols &

• Formats: Expertise in REST, SOAP, gRPC, JSON, XML, and flat-file integration patterns.

Soft Skills &

• Leadership

- Principle-Driven Leadership: Ability to operate under a values-based framework, demonstrating strong personal accountability and mutual respect.
- Cooperative Mindset: Strong active listening, communication, and negotiation skills, with an innate ability to build bridges across global, multicultural teams.
- Problem-Solving &

• Agility: Strong analytical capability, comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced, digital environment.

Education &

Certifications

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a highly related field.
- Professional certifications in relevant technologies (e.g., MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, SAP Certified Integration Associate, or Solace Certified Engineer) are highly desirable.

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