Senior Solutions Architect II (Enterprise Service Bus / Webmethods))

Job Description

Job Summary:

Work location: Deerfield, IL / Chantilly, VA

We are looking for a highly experienced Integration Architect with deep expertise in domain-specific architecture and a strong track record of designing, developing, and implementing scalable and secure ESB solutions. Demonstrates hands-on proficiency with IBM WebMethods, Java, and Azure, with a deep understanding of middleware technologies and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Proficient in integrating disparate systems using protocols such as SOAP, REST, and JMS, and in architecting cloud-based ESB solutions leveraging public cloud for high availability and scalability. Adept at designing disaster recovery strategies, failover mechanisms, and high availability infrastructures using clustering, load balancing, and resilient design patterns.

Experienced in service orchestration, transformation, and routing, and implementing enterprise integration patterns like publish-subscribe, request-reply, and asynchronous messaging. Proven ability to lead development teams, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment between technology and business goals. Strong background in enterprise security, including encryption, authentication, and compliance with audit and organizational policies. Skilled in centralized logging, platform-level diagnostics, intake estimation, capacity planning, and ensuring solutions meet SLA and NFR expectations. Demonstrates exceptional leadership in cross-functional collaboration, with a passion for delivering robust, high-performance integration solutions in complex, hybrid enterprise environments.

Job Responsibility:

• Conceptualizes the overall design documents that ensure consistency in development across the Technology organization. Participates in the definition of technical architecture to ensure that the Technology organization's solutions are built within a consistent framework.
• Designs and defines system architecture and solutions for integrating multiple platforms, operating systems, cloud and applications. Participates in the decision-making processes related to the selection of architecture solutions.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Serves as a technical and business-savvy resource to engineering on a range of software design issues.
• Implements and improves core systems and/or software infrastructure. Participates in improving software development lifecycle, technical operations and technology innovation.
• Participates in developing technical / business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools.
• Shares complex information related to areas of expertise and/or to gain acceptance of new or enhanced technology / business solutions. .
• Effectively resolves problems and roadblocks as they occur.
• May perform systems and applications performance characterization and trade-off studies through analysis and simulation.
• Leads the daily work of assigned work group / team. Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group / team. Makes needed adjustments to short-term priorities.
• Owns a functional area. Breaks large requests down into sub-tasks, gives higher-level status updates. Writes test plans. Takes operational responsibility. Sets measurable goals, and meets them. Reviews code changes.
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise. Interacts with direct team of accountability, peers and/or managers in other teams. May interact with vendors and/or customers to share information and improve workflow processes.
• May design specifications of assigned projects and may lead in implementation.
• Demonstrates proficiency in most areas of the professional function and advanced in-depth specialization in some.

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.

The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.

External Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in a technical engineering and/or architecture role OR High school / GED and at least 7 years of experience in a technical engineering and/or architecture role
• At least 3 years of leadership experience in server side or client side technologies
• Experience in domain-specific architecture concepts and emerging technologies. (Design patterns, frameworks, current Java based solutions, mobile, OR Infrastructure Administration OR Data Sciences)
• Experience creating and promoting guiding development principles and influencing development teams, business users and management in adoption of technical solutions.
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable integration solutions in hybrid environments
• Strong background in Java-based backend development, messaging middleware, and enterprise integration
• Experience working with service orchestration and enterprise integration patterns ( publish-subscribe, request-reply, async messaging)
• Designed and implemented scalable integration solutions in hybrid environments using ESB platforms like IBM webMethods.
• Experienced in service orchestration and enterprise integration patterns (e.g., publish-subscribe, request-reply, async messaging) within ESB frameworks.
• Knowledgeable in centralized logging and observability using tools like ELK, Splunk, and Prometheus for monitoring ESB and middleware systems.
• Implemented enterprise-grade security, including encryption and authentication, in ESB-based integrations and secure API gateways.
• Led intake estimation, capacity planning, and aligned integration solutions with defined SLAs and NFRs.
• Familiar with integration technologies and automated file transfer platforms like Active Transfer Gateway and SFTP.
• Provided architectural guidance to teams of developers and architects, ensuring alignment with integration best practices.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence business and technical stakeholders in large-scale ESB initiatives.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.