Traceability Integration Engineer

MAIN PURPOSE We are looking for a Traceability Integration Engineer (Product Integration Engineer) that builds and maintains the integration flows that connect the product ecosystem: SAP, SaaS solutions, LCNC apps, data products, events, devices and microservices. The profile must be expert in Kong (API Gateway), Solace (event broker), backend APIs, orchestration, and data contracts. It ensures reliable, scalable and observable integrations, aligned with the product architecture.

In this particular position, the Integration Product Solution Engineer acts as the critical bridge between business requirements and technical integration solutions for our Traceability Program. This role leverages deep functional knowledge of product traceability and supply chain processes to define, drive, and ensure the successful implementation of complex system (Saas platforms, SAP ECC,...) integrations, working closely with both functional stakeholders and the dedicated integration team.

Key Responsibilities Collaboration with PO, Product TTL, & Product Solution Engineers

• Investigate multi-system issues
• Provide integration RCA and recommendations
• Support new features requiring new integrations

Functional Requirement Analysis & Definition

• Collaborate with business analysts and other functional experts to thoroughly understand and document detailed business requirements for product traceability, including data points & verification needs and translate them into clear integration specifications.

Integration Solution Design & Strategy

• Collaborate with architects to design optimal, scalable, and secure integration solutions between SAP Material Traceability, SBN, EON (DPP), PLM, ECC, MDM, and SaaS platforms.
• Build APIs, flows and connectors between systems
• Design event-driven architecture using Solace
• Implement mappings, transformations, and routing logic
• Ensure alignment with product data models and contracts

Technical Integration Leadership & Oversight

• Serve as the primary functional point of contact for the Integration Team, guiding technical implementation and ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Security & scalability

• Ensure API governance (auth, quotas, throttling, versioning)
• Ensure integrations are scalable and future-proof

Testing, Validation & Quality Assurance

• Lead functional and integration testing to ensure data integrity, accuracy, and compliance across all integrated systems.

Reliability & monitoring

• Monitor integration flows (retry, dead-letter, events, errors)
• Build dashboards & alerts
• Ensure performance and stability

Governance, Documentation & Knowledge Transfer

• Create and maintain detailed integration documentation and facilitate knowledge transfer to relevant teams.
• Maintain integration documentation and diagrams
• Apply naming conventions, standards and reusable patterns
• Define APIs and data contracts

Required Qualifications Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical/supply chain field.

Experience

• 5+ years in IT integration roles, with proven experience in complex enterprise system integrations (e.g., SAP, PLM, MDM, SaaS).
• Strong functional/technical background in product traceability, procurement & supply chain.

Technical Skills

• Proficient in integration patterns, protocols (REST, SOAP), data formats (XML, JSON), and middleware platforms (e.g., SAP CPI, CIG, SAP PI/PO etc.).
• Solid knowledge of SAP supply chain modules.
• Strong debugging skills.

Functional & Business Acumen

• Excellent analytical skills to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Soft Skills

• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and results-oriented.
• Systems thinking, Rigor and high quality standards,
• Good communication with functional and technical teams,
• Ownership and autonomy

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Digital Product Passeport (DPP) solutions like EON.
• Relevant integration technology certifications.