Job Description

What if you were given the opportunity and responsibility to make a difference? It is time to embrace your Infinite Possibilities. This is your opportunity to be part of International Paper, a Fortune 500 company and global leader in paper and packaging products. IP is known for our commitment to the environment and to cutting-edge technology. We have spent more than 100 years creating new ideas, and we are looking for people who can collaborate to help us build on our history, while creating future success. We are committed to attracting, preparing, promoting and supporting our teams. At International Paper, you control your destiny. We offer benefits, challenges, global opportunities and total rewards. When we say Infinite Possibilities, we mean it.

This position is a senior technical expert leading implementations of IPs middleware. They are accomplished at delivering connectivity software solutions and services across IPs and our trading partners diverse system environments. They also provide significant contributions toward improving connectivity quality and lower business costs.

Position is based in Memphis not eligible for remote work. Relocation available for the right candidate.

Key Accountabilities:

* Directs the adoption, engineering, and maintenance of connectivity technologies
* Develops software products to manage and automate connectivity development and infrastructure processes; and to provide the businesses with the speed and flexibility needed to manage customer and supplier electronic business documents
* Works with internal and external application system providers to engineer end to end connectivity solutions
* Coordinates server, data base, and network infrastructure installations, upgrades, and maintenance
* Directs connectivity related problem resolutions across Technical Services, Application Systems, and third party service providers such as Liaison and Paymetric
* Contributes to the technology vision for the Connectivity Roadmap
* Mentors and supports the Technical Services Middleware staff, Connectivity Engineers, and Connectivity Integration Developers

Key Challenges:

The external environment, including technology, competition, markets:

* Connectivity technology will change radically over the next five years
* Preventing the lack of current technology and skills within the industry from delaying the realization of connectivity benefits

The internal environment, including interaction with others, (both inside and outside the company) policies/practices:
* Existing application systems present significant connectivity challenges
* Planning for the migration from current technology to the future without disrupting business
* Supporting the rapid change in business processes and application system

The work itself, e.g., problems, opportunities, change:

* The scope of both technical and business knowledge required
* Keeping pace with technology advancements and choosing the correct long-term solutions
* Accomplishing tasks through virtual organizations rather than direct reports

Scope:

Connectivity has become mission critical to IPs operations. Supply chain automation is becoming a requirement for conducting business with our trading partners. This position will provide connectivity for all information and application systems within a specific business or project, maximizing the return on IPs initial 17 million dollar investment in connectivity technology (Project Conectere).

Knowledge and Experience:

Required:

* Engineering Degree in Computer Science (as opposed to information systems)
* Designing solutions using API technologies, elastic search and cloud transformation tool such as service-oriented architectures (SOA).
* Creating, maintaining, documentation and versioning APIs in the API Management layer.
* Experience in development technologies like Web API, JavaScript, RESTful services, microservices, SQL, and Oracle.
* Demonstrable hand-on experience in Platform Technologies: Azure Cognitive Services, Azure DevOps, API Management, Azure Data Factory, and general cloud governance and security mechanisms are required.
* Communicate thoroughness of vision for system architecture topology, components design, networking and security of the proposed solutions through modeling and using tools like Visio.
* Extensive knowledge of webMethods and other middleware products including features, configuration, performance tuning, debugging, and internal design
* Ten years of experience developing commercial level software products employing windows and web user interfaces, distributed object component design, and relational databases
* Ten years of experience with system management processes
* Five years of experience maintaining UNIX and NT operating systems
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team skills
* Ability to conceptualize solutions, constructively debate alternatives, and build consensus
* Strategic agility
* Comfort around business and IT management
* Able to work in an unstructured, changing environment
* Strong drive to learn and achieve
* Recognizes opportunities to transform the business with technology

Preferred:

* Technical knowledge of API Management layers, Azure Cloud and Azure Cognitive Services
* Advanced degree in Computer Science
* Extensive peer network with outside companies, consultants, and universities
* Expert level experience in each of the following areas:
* Web API, Web Services
* OpenAPI specification (SWAGGER, RAML, & RESTful)
* Service Oriented Architectures
* Internet Technologies
* Messaging Technologies
* Connectivity Solution Design
* Architecture and Planning

Project Management:

* Connectivity Technology Knowledge
* API Management , Azure Cloud, WebMethods
* Security & Encryption
* Java, JavaScript and .Net Development Environments , XML
* Transformation technologies such as SWAGGER, RAML/YAML, XML, and JSON
* Object and Data Design
* Distributed System & Application Servers (CICS, .net, J2EE)
* Familiarity with IP Corporate, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing Application Systems

Organizational Relationship:

This position reports to the Manager of Connectivity Solution Engineering

International Paper is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.