{"id":3678841,"url":"https://alion.io/job/indorama-ventures-ibp-integration-expert","title":"IBP Integration Expert","company":{"id":1903271,"name":"Indorama Ventures","domain":"indoramaventures.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/indoramaventures","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Kolkata, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Confluence","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T20:51:10Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-11-06T20:51:10Z","days_open":31,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":31},"description":"Description:\nOur organization:\nIndorama Ventures is a global sustainable chemical company operating across multiple verticals such as Combined PET, Fibers, and Integrated Oxides & Derivatives. The Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Kolkata, India supports worldwide operations through centralized IT, Finance and business process services.\nJob Location - Kolkata, Hyderabad\nPosition Overview\nThe o9 Solutions Integration (INT3.0) & Data Lead is responsible for owning, governing, and continuously improving the technical integration landscape supporting the o9 Solutions IBP platform. The role provides hands-on Integration 3.0 (INT3.0) expertise from day one, translating integration requirements into reliable, supportable, and scalable data flows across o9 and upstream or downstream enterprise systems.\nThis position acts as the technical integration authority within the IBP CoE. It combines architecture, delivery, operations, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder leadership. This person will work closely with functional leads, the Solution Architect, data teams, infrastructure and security teams, implementation partners, and business stakeholders to ensure that integrations are production-ready and sustainably transitioned into support.\nRole Purpose and Outcomes\nOwn the o9 INT3.0 integration workstream and provide practical, recent implementation expertise with minimal dependency on project-team knowledge transfer.\nEstablish stable, traceable, and supportable inbound and outbound interfaces for IBP planning processes.\nImprove operational resilience through runbooks, batch monitoring, error-log knowledge, root-cause analysis, and repeatable recovery procedures.\nEnable faster and safer releases by applying technical design standards, quality controls, and disciplined deployment practices.\nSupport targeted Python-based plug-ins, procedures, and automation under the guidance of functional and solution leads.\nWhat You'll Do\nKey Responsibilities\no9 Integration 3.0 Technical Ownership\nAct as the primary technical owner for o9 Integration 3.0 across design, build, testing, deployment, and production support.\nDesign and maintain integration patterns for master, transactional, planning, and analytical data exchanged between o9 and enterprise systems.\nAssess integration requirements, define technical options, document decisions, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and security standards.\nProvide technical guidance to internal teams, vendors, and implementation partners, and review integration deliverables for quality and maintainability.\nIntegration Engineering and Data Flows\nDevelop, configure, enhance, and troubleshoot data ingestion and extraction pipelines, transformations, orchestration, schedules, and dependencies.\nWork with ERP, data-platform, middleware, cloud, and data-provider teams to define interface contracts, mappings, validation rules, cadence, and ownership.\nEnsure integrations correctly handle full and delta loads, sequencing, reconciliation, restorability, exceptions, and downstream dependencies.\nPerform technical analysis of complex data issues and distinguish source-data, transformation, configuration, platform, and infrastructure causes.\nBatch Operations, Monitoring and Support\nOwn batch-flow visibility, operational monitoring, issue triage, and technical coordination for failed or delayed integrations.\nCreate and maintain batch runbooks, support procedures, error-log libraries, escalation paths, and recovery instructions that are specific to the implemented landscape.\nLead root-cause analysis for recurring incidents and convert findings into preventive controls, automation, or design improvements.\nSupport production releases, continuous improvement through Change Requests, and transition to steady-state operations, including knowledge transfer to data and support teams.\nTechnical Development and Automation\nUse Python where appropriate to develop plug-ins, procedures, utilities, validations, and automation that complement o9 configuration and integration capabilities.\nApply sound software-engineering practices including version control, modular design, code review, logging, exception handling, testing, and technical documentation.\nCollaborate with functional experts to translate planning requirements into safe and maintainable technical extensions without compromising platform standards.\nQuality, Security and Release Governance\nDefine and apply technical quality gates for integration design, code, configuration, testing evidence, deployment readiness, and documentation completeness.\nPrepare unit, system-integration, regression, performance, and reconciliation test scenarios in collaboration with QA and functional teams.\nEnsure secure handling of credentials, access, data transfers, service accounts, certificates, and environment-specific configuration in line with approved policies.\nIdentify technical debt, performance risks, and single points of failure, and maintain a prioritized improvement roadmap.\nAgile Delivery and Stakeholder Collaboration\nAuthor and refine technical user stories, tasks, acceptance criteria, estimates, dependencies, and implementation plans.\nParticipate in sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and defect-triage forums.\nCommunicate technical risks, decisions, and recovery options clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nMentor less-experienced technical resources and strengthen internal integration capability through structured knowledge sharing.\nWhat We're Looking For\nRequired Qualifications and Experience\nMinimum 5 years of relevant professional experience, including at least 1 year of hands-on o9 INT3.0 integration experience.\nRecent delivery experience on o9 implementation projects, with demonstrated ownership of Integration 3.0 work and implementation outcomes.\nStrong practical knowledge of o9 INT3.0 concepts, tools, deployment patterns, batch processing, operational monitoring, and troubleshooting.\nHands-on experience integrating with SAP or other ERP systems, data platforms,middleware, file-transfer services, and cloud environments.\nStrong SQL and data-engineering fundamentals, including data modeling, mapping, transformation, reconciliation, dependency management, and performance analysis.\nWorking Python programming experience for plug-ins, procedures, validation utilities, or automation.\nExperience with APIs, structured files, secure file transfer, authentication methods, scheduling or orchestration, and environment promotion practices.\nExperience producing technical integration designs, data-flow diagrams, interface specifications, deployment plans, runbooks, and support documentation.\nDemonstrated ability to work in agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.\nCertifications\no9 Integration 3.0 (INT3.0) certification is required; equivalent demonstrable expertise must be supported by recent project evidence.\nAdditional o9 technical, platform, configuration, performance, or analytics certifications are valued.\nRelevant cloud, data engineering, integration, security, agile, or project-management certifications are advantageous.\nPreferred Experience\nExperience in global IBP or supply-chain planning programs spanning Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP/IBP, and KPI or analytics solutions.\nExperience operating in a Center of Excellence model and transitioning implementation knowledge into internal support ownership.\nExposure to customer-managed cloud or Azure-based deployments, enterprise identity integration, and secure data-transfer patterns.\nExperience improving batch performance, observability, error handling, and resilience in business-critical planning landscapes.\nAbility to contribute across integration architecture and hands-on delivery while maintaining a clear separation between standard platform configuration and custom development.\nBehavioural and Leadership Skills\nTechnical ownership: takes accountability for outcomes, follows issues through resolution, and makes risks visible early.\nAnalytical problem solving: structures ambiguous technical problems, tests hypotheses, and produces evidence-based conclusions.\nCommunication: explains complex integration behavior to both engineering teams and business stakeholders in clear language.\nCollaboration: works effectively across functional consultants, architects, data teams, infrastructure, security, vendors, and business users.\nQuality mindset: values documentation, repeatability, traceability, and sustainable support over short-term fixes.\nCoaching: strengthens team capability through reviews, standards, reusable examples, and hands-on knowledge transfer.\nSuccess Measures\nReliable execution of scheduled integrations with clear monitoring, ownership, and recovery procedures.\nReduced recurrence and resolution time of integration incidents through root-cause elimination and better operational knowledge.\nComplete, current, and usable technical documentation for interfaces, batches, error handling, deployments, and support.\nConsistent compliance with design, security, testing, release, and support-readiness standards.\nEffective transfer of integration knowledge from project resources into the IBP CoE and support organization.\nTimely delivery of approved enhancements and automation with measurable improvement in platform operability and team productivity.\nCandidate Evidence Expected\nCandidates should be prepared to provide concrete examples from recent o9 engagements, including:\nTheir exact role, duration, and ownership in each o9 project.\nINT3.0 interfaces designed or delivered, source and target systems, data volumes or cadence, and 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