Integration/API Architect

Integration/API Architect & Engineer

The Integration/API Architect & Engineer is a key position helping to shape Symrise’s enterprise‑wide
integration strategy, leading global integration architectural direction, and building the foundational
integration capabilities that enable the company’s digital and AI transformation at scale.

The Position:

Enterprise Integration & API Architecture Leadership and Delivery:

• Help build Symrise’s first global integration and API organization, setting direction, standards, and architectural guardrails for the entire company
• Implement and refine a scalable API‑first strategy, enabling secure, efficient, and standardized data exchange across cloud, systems, regions, and partners
• Influence enterprise IT, business system roadmaps, and vendor choices through strong architectural governance and thought leadership
• Ensure tight strategic and technical integration between data engineering and integration teams, forming a unified capability for complex or unstructured data

Cross‑Functional Influence & Business Partnership:

• Act as a bridge between business strategy and technical execution, ensuring integration architecture decisions accelerate value creation, innovation, and competitive advantage
• Partner with senior business leaders and subject matter experts to understand their strategic ambitions and translate them into integration roadmaps
• Advise senior stakeholders on emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and opportunities to modernize the organization
• Play a visible role in driving Symrise’s data and AI transformation, promoting data democratization, and enabling advanced AI use cases

Transformation Leadership, Standards & Ecosystem Governance:

• Establish standards, policies, and operating models for enterprise integration architecture worldwide
• Drive change management, ensuring adoption of modern engineering practices across regions and functions
• Develop future capabilities by scouting emerging technologies, modernizing engineering practices, and fostering a culture of innovation

The Ideal Candidate:

• Master’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, or related fields; PhD beneficial
• Min 3-5 years of experience in integration architecture, integration engineering, or similar roles
• Demonstrated experience of working on enterprise integration platform transformations and of designing & implementing enterprise / large‑scale integration platforms
• Track record influencing stakeholders and subject matter experts and shaping multi‑year digital strategies
• Experience building API‑first architectures and modern integration platforms
• Ideally, expertise in modern data stack technologies (e.g., Delta Lake/Iceberg, Spark, orchestration frameworks, event‑driven architectures, cloud analytics platforms
• Demonstrated ability to work with unstructured data
• Experience in working in complex, global, matrixed organizations a plus
• Excellent English required, additional languages a plus.