Integration Architect

SalesforceRemote, India


Description

Role

Own the Salesforce to SAP integration for an order management build at a beverage manufacturer. You run a two-week solution discovery with the client's IT team, agree the interface contract, then design and lead the integration through five build sprints to a February go-live. You are the senior technical voice on the integration and you write the specification the client's SAP team builds against.

What you will do

  • Agree an interface contract with the client's IT team covering the SAP services to be consumed, payload structures, error semantics, idempotency handling and retry behaviour.
  • Design inbound synchronisation of order header and line records from SAP into Salesforce over SAP Integration Suite.
  • Design write-back into SAP of order amendments, cancellations and return authorisations, including the reason codes recorded against each.
  • Design write-back integrity: validation, exception handling and reconciliation controls for failed, partial and duplicate transactions, a reconciliation record for every instruction originating in Salesforce, and a concurrency control that re-reads order state from SAP immediately before submission.
  • Establish during discovery the SAP services available, the SAP release in use, the order state model, authorisation thresholds, and the volume and cut-off of historic order data.
  • Work inside an existing programme team alongside a US-based lead architect, in that programme's sprint ceremonies and testing cycle.

Essential

  • Eight to ten years in Salesforce, currently operating as a solution or technical architect.
  • Salesforce to SAP integration delivered end to end, including transactional write-back into SAP rather than read-only surfacing of SAP data.
  • Integration patterns for transactional systems: idempotency keys, correlation identifiers, retry and backoff, dead-letter handling, and reconciliation between two systems of record.
  • SAP sales order interfaces for create, change and cancel, across both BAPI over RFC and OData. The client's SAP release is not yet confirmed, so both are required.
  • Salesforce integration mechanics: Apex callouts, named credentials, platform events, External Services, and the Salesforce Order data model.
  • Able to write an interface specification precise enough for a third-party SAP team to build against, and to hold that conversation directly with the client.
  • Fluent English, working the programme's ceremonies with a US-based team.

Desirable

  • SAP Integration Suite, specifically Cloud Integration. This is the client's first use of the platform.
  • Salesforce Integration Architect certification.
  • Manufacturing, consumer packaged goods or food and beverage order-to-cash exposure.