Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Integration Architect with 15+ years of IT experience to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise integration solutions. The candidate should be hands-on with IBM ACE, have exposure to IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I), and be capable of acting as a trusted technical advisor to clients.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and architect scalable, secure, resilient enterprise integration solutions using IBM ACE and related integration technologies.

- Be hands-on in designing and developing IBM ACE applications, including complex integration flows, APIs, messaging, transformations, and error-handling frameworks.

- Provide architecture leadership across integration, API management, messaging, event-driven architecture, and microservices.

- Define integration standards, design patterns, reusable frameworks, and best practices.

- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to development teams and ensure adherence to architecture and engineering standards.

- Lead technical discussions with clients and act as a trusted technical advisor, understanding business needs and translating them into practical technology solutions.

- Participate in solutioning, estimations, technical proposals, architecture reviews, and client presentations.

- Drive delivery excellence by identifying technical risks, dependencies, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies.

- Work closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners to understand requirements and translate business requirements into technical integration solutions.

- Understand and contribute to key BA and delivery activities, including requirements analysis, user stories, acceptance criteria, planning, estimation, and stakeholder management.

- Provide technical leadership throughout the complete SDLCfrom requirements and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and production support.

Required Technical Skills

- 15+ years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in enterprise integration.





- Strong hands-on experience with IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE).

- Experience in designing and developing IBM ACE applications.

- Exposure to IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) and containerized integration platforms.

- Robust understanding of API-led, service-oriented, event-driven, and microservices architectures.

- Good understanding of Kafka / event streaming and asynchronous integration patterns.

- Working knowledge/exposure to Java and ability to understand Java-based integration components.

- Strong understanding of REST, SOAP, APIs, messaging, MQ, JSON, XML, and data transformation.

- Understanding of integration security concepts including OAuth, JWT, TLS/SSL, authentication, and authorization.

- Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, DevOps, monitoring, logging, and production support is highly desirable.

Leadership & Client Skills

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Strong stakeholder management and ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.

- Ability to operate confidently in client-facing and consulting environments.

- Demonstrated ability to act as a Client Trusted Advisor and challenge existing approaches constructively.

- Solid analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

- Ability to lead technical teams and mentor architects/developers.

- Comfortable working across architecture, delivery, BA, and business stakeholder responsibilities.

Additional Expectations

- Should be able to balance architecture with hands-on technical execution.

- Should demonstrate ownership from solution inception through production delivery.

- Ability to evaluate technology choices, perform trade-off analysis, and recommend pragmatic solutions.

- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements such as scalability, availability, performance, security, resiliency, and maintainability.

- Experience in modernization, migration, and transformation programs is preferred.

- Ability to work effectively in distributed/global teams and manage multiple priorities.

📌 DE Manager-IBM-ACE (Chennai)
🏢 ERNST YOUNG
📍 Chennai