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About SFS:

Stellantis Financial Services (SFS) is the new captive finance company for one of the world's leading automakers and a mobility provider with iconic brands including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citron, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall, Free2move and Leasys.

Our exciting growth provides opportunities to advance your career as we successfully lead products and services from a small to midsize company in just a few years. Join our world class team and culture and contribute to our core mission which is enhancing our customer's experience.

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Azure Integration Solutions Architect to design, build, and govern enterprise-grade integration solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. This role owns the end-to-end architecture for connecting applications, data stores, and external servicestranslating business requirements into secure, scalable, and observable integration designs and driving them through to production implementation.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect with deep .NET engineering roots, mastery of Azures integration and messaging stack, fluency in standard integration design patterns, and a demonstrated history of successfully delivering complex projects. We are looking for a critical thinker who can weigh trade-offs, anticipate failure modes, and make sound architectural decisions in fast-moving environments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of integration solutions using Azure services, spanning messaging, eventing, API management, and orchestration.

• Architect and apply standard integration design patterns (e.g., publish/subscribe, request/reply, content-based routing, message transformation, claim-check, saga/process manager, retry and dead-letter handling, circuit breaker) to real-world business problems.

• Champion sound design principlesabstraction, extensibility, and adaptive designso that solutions remain loosely coupled, easy to extend, and resilient to changing requirements

• Design and implement containerized workloads using Azure Container Apps, App Service, and Azure Functions, including container packaging, scaling, and lifecycle management.

• Model and integrate relational, NoSQL, and caching data stores, selecting the right persistence approach for each workload.

• Design and develop enterprise-level IT architecture solutions, including cloud, infrastructure, applications, and data systems.
• Evaluate business needs and translate them into technical requirements and architectural blueprints.
• Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and aligned with industrys best practices and compliance standards.
• Lead the integration of new technologies, APIs, and third-party services into existing infrastructure.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams and oversee the implementation of architectural designs.
• Conduct system performance analysis, risk assessments, and optimization strategies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including executives, engineers, and business units, to align IT strategy with organizational goals.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and recommend innovations to improve efficiency and competitiveness.
• Document architecture standards, policies, and procedures for reference and compliance.
• Design and implement scalable, high-performance integration solutions using modern patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture, pub/sub, SOA).
• Design and optimize data pipelines for batch and real-time processing.
• Establish governance frameworks for integration standards, monitoring, logging, and error handling.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate CI/CD pipelines for integration deployments.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to translate requirements into scalable cloud solutions.
• Mentor and guide technical teams on cloud best practices and architectural patterns.
• Other duties may be assigned; responsibilities may change.

Qualifications and Competencies Required To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 7 years experience in IT architecture, business architecture, systems design, software development, integration architecture, or infrastructure.
• Minimum 5 years experience designing cloud-native integrations.

Education:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Skills Required:

• Azure Certifications (Developer, DevOps Engineer, Administrator, Solutions Architect).
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman.
• Strong background in software development (.NET, Java, Python) and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and Agile methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with databases (SQL/NoSQL), APIs, microservices, SOA, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Expertise in designing scalable, high-availability systems and hybrid cloud architectures using Azure, AWS, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001), and data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, PCI, HIPAA).
• Knowledge of data platforms including data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, data hubs, and data governance.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, and leadership abilities to guide and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Proven adaptability to evolving technologies and business needs.

Qualifications Preferred:

• Graph Database: Graph database design and implementation (e.g., Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin / graph data modeling)

• Data Integration: Azure Data Factory

• Analytics Platform: Microsoft Fabric

• AI/ML technologies. Background in the Financial Services industry. Prior experience in leadership or consulting roles.
• MuleSoft Certified Developer and Platform Architect with hands-on experience using Anypoint Platform, including Mule Runtime, Connectors, Design Center, and API Management. Expertise in migrating from MuleSoft to Azure-based integrations. Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services (compute, storage, networking, security). Experience with hybrid on-prem and cloud architectures. Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.

Overtime required N/A.

Travel 0-10% - as required on an as needed basis.

Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to one of the following cities: Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Detroit, MI; Houston, TX.

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Work Schedule This position is a hybrid role, requiring in-office presence minimum 2 days per week. The role also requires flexibility to work various shifts to meet business needs, typically between the hours of 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday, with occasional weekend availability as needed. Travel requirements are estimated at 010%.

An applicant must be authorized to work in the United States to be eligible for this position. Stellantis Financial Services, Inc. will not sponsor applicants for work visas of any type for this position.An applicant must be authorized to work in the United States to be eligible for this position. Stellantis Financial Services, Inc. will not sponsor applicants for work visas of any type for this position.

Stellantis Financial Services, Inc (SFS) is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing its employees with an environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, and intimidation. It is the policy of SFS to comply with all applicable employment laws and regulations and to provide equal opportunity for all qualified persons and to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, change of sex, and/or transgender status or any protected status. Candidates must possess authorization to work in the United States. This policy applies to recruitment and placement, promotion, training, transfer, retention, rate of pay and all other terms and conditions of employment. Employment and promotion decisions will be based solely on merit, ability, achievement, experience, conduct and other legitimate business reasons.