IBM CP4I Technical Architect

About the Role

TawanTech is seeking an IBM CP4I Technical Architect to join our team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role involves designing, architecting, and overseeing the implementation of enterprise integration solutions using IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I). The architect will establish scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing integration architectures to ensure seamless connectivity across enterprise applications, services, and external systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise integration architecture using IBM CP4I.
• Design end-to-end integration solutions, including API-led, event-driven, and service-oriented architectures.
• Develop architecture blueprints, solution designs, integration patterns, and technical standards.
• Define integration strategies for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Design and implement solutions leveraging IBM Cloud Pak for Integration components such as IBM API Connect, IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), IBM MQ, IBM Event Streams, IBM Aspera, and IBM DataPower Gateway.
• Establish API management and governance frameworks, defining integration patterns, message flows, API policies, and messaging standards.
• Design and deploy CP4I solutions on Red Hat OpenShift, defining containerization, orchestration, and microservices integration strategies.
• Manage environment architecture across development, testing, staging, and production, including deployment strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Establish integration security architecture and authentication mechanisms, implementing OAuth , OpenID Connect, mutual TLS, and certificate management.
• Define API governance, access controls, encryption, and audit requirements, ensuring compliance with enterprise security policies.
• Lead technical teams, developers, and integration engineers, reviewing solution architecture and providing technical guidance.
• Define monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational support frameworks, establishing performance and capacity management standards.

Technical Expertise

The role requires deep technical expertise in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration components and related technologies. This includes designing secure communication and data exchange, understanding Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage, and security, and troubleshooting complex integration and messaging issues. The architect will also define high availability, backup, recovery, and business continuity approaches.

Leadership and Collaboration

This position involves providing technical leadership and working closely with enterprise architects, infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, and business teams. The architect will support project delivery, technical estimation, and vendor management, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in technical architecture roles.
• Proven experience with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) and its components.
• Strong understanding of Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience in defining and implementing integration security architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and provide guidance on complex integration issues.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to significant enterprise integration projects within a dynamic technical environment.