Integration Architect & Specialist

Role Purpose The Integration Architect & Specialist will be responsible for designing, governing and enabling enterprise integration architectures that seamlessly connect applications, platforms, data, APIs and external ecosystems.

The role will define and implement scalable, secure, resilient and reusable integration patterns across legacy and modern technology environments, enabling real-time and batch integration, API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture and seamless business-process orchestration.

The role will work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Application, Data, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Product and Engineering teams to ensure consistent and robust integration across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Integration Architecture

Design end-to-end integration architectures across enterprise applications, platforms, data and external systems. Define integration strategies and architecture patterns across legacy, on-premise, cloud and SaaS environments. Design synchronous and asynchronous integration solutions.

Define reusable integration patterns, standards and reference architectures.

Ensure integration architectures are scalable, resilient, secure and cost-effective.

Identify opportunities to simplify fragmented integration landscapes and reduce point-to-point integrations.

1. API Architecture & Management

Design and govern API-led integration architectures. Define API standards, design principles, lifecycle management and governance. Design RESTful and, where appropriate, GraphQL APIs.

Define API security, authentication, authorisation, throttling and versioning.

Establish API reuse and discoverability across the enterprise.

Support API productisation and external ecosystem integrations.

- Define API gateway and management architecture.

1. Event-Driven Architecture

Design event-driven and real-time integration architectures. Define enterprise event models and event-driven integration patterns. Design solutions using event streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka or equivalent technologies.

Establish appropriate patterns for

Event publishing

Event consumption

Event orchestration

Event routing

Message transformation

Retry and failure handling

- Design architectures capable of supporting high-volume, low-latency transactions.

1. Integration Platforms & Middleware

Architect and evaluate enterprise integration platforms and middleware. Work with technologies such as:

API Management

Enterprise Service Bus

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Message brokers

Event streaming platforms

API gateways

Workflow/orchestration platforms

Define appropriate technology choices based on business and technical requirements.

- Drive standardisation and rationalisation of integration technologies.

1. Application & System Integration





Design integration across: Core Applications Digital Channels CRM ERP Data Platforms AI Platforms Partner Ecosystems

Responsibilities include

Application-to-application integration

System-to-system integration

Legacy modernisation

SaaS integration

Cloud integration

Partner/B2B integration

External API integration

Database and data integration

- File-based integration where required

1. Cloud & Hybrid Integration

Design integration architectures spanning on-premise, private cloud and public cloud. Define hybrid integration patterns. Support cloud migration and application modernisation programmes.

Ensure secure connectivity between enterprise environments and cloud platforms.

- Design for scalability, availability, disaster recovery and business continuity.

1. Integration Security

Incorporate security into integration architecture by design. Define authentication and authorisation mechanisms such as: OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

Mutual TLS

JWT

API keys where appropriate

Ensure encryption in transit and appropriate protection of sensitive data.

Design secure external and partner integrations.

Work with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to ensure compliance with enterprise security standards.

1. Integration Reliability & Resilience

Design integrations with appropriate:

Retry mechanisms

Circuit breakers

Timeouts

Idempotency

Error handling

Dead-letter queues

Failure recovery

Transaction management

Ensure integrations meet defined availability, performance and resilience requirements.

- Establish observability and monitoring for integration services.

1. Integration Governance

Define and maintain enterprise integration standards and principles. Review solution designs and ensure compliance with approved architecture. Maintain integration reference architectures and design patterns.

Conduct architecture reviews for major integration initiatives.

Identify and manage integration technical debt.

Ensure consistency across integration implementations.

1. DevSecOps & Integration Engineering

Enable automated deployment and lifecycle management of integration components. Support CI/CD for APIs, integration services and event streams. Establish appropriate testing strategies, including:

API testing

Contract testing

Integration testing

Performance testing

Security testing

- Promote Infrastructure as Code and automated configuration management where appropriate.

Key Technical Skills

Integration Architecture





Enterprise Integration Patterns

API-led architecture

Event-driven architecture

Service-oriented architecture

Microservices

Application integration

Hybrid integration

B2B integration

APIs

REST

SOAP

GraphQL

API gateways

API management

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWT

- API lifecycle management

Messaging & Events

Apache Kafka

Message queues

Event brokers

Pub/Sub

Event schemas

Event orchestration

- Streaming architectures

Integration Platforms

Experience with one or more of:

MuleSoft

Boomi

IBM Integration Bus / ACE

Azure Integration Services

AWS Integration Services

Google Cloud integration services

Informatica

SAP Integration Suite

WSO2

Other enterprise iPaaS / middleware platforms

Cloud

AWS / Azure / GCP

Kubernetes / containers

Serverless integration

Cloud networking

- Hybrid cloud architecture

Engineering

Java / Python / .NET or equivalent

SQL

CI/CD

Git

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as Code

- Monitoring and observability

Experience & Qualifications

812+ years of experience in Integration Architecture, Solution Architecture, Middleware, API Architecture or related technology domains.

Proven experience designing enterprise-scale integration solutions.

Strong experience across APIs, messaging, event streaming and middleware.

Experience integrating legacy systems with modern cloud-native platforms.

Experience with large-scale transformation and modernisation programmes.

Experience working with multiple technology teams and business stakeholders.

Experience in insurance, banking or financial services is preferred.

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related discipline.

Key Competencies The successful candidate should demonstrate:

Strong enterprise and solution architecture skills

Deep understanding of integration patterns and technologies

Strong API and event-driven architecture expertise

Ability to simplify complex integration landscapes

Strong understanding of security and resilience

Hands-on technical problem-solving capability

Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture

Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills

Ability to work across legacy and contemporary technology environments

Strong technology evaluation and decision-making skills

Key Deliverables The Integration Architect & Specialist will be responsible for producing:

Enterprise integration architecture

Solution and system integration architectures

API architecture and standards

Event-driven architecture

Integration reference architectures

Integration design patterns

API specifications and integration contracts

Architecture decision records

Integration technology assessments

Security and resilience architecture

Integration modernisation roadmaps

Technical architecture documentation

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