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The Enterprise Architect - Integration is a senior technology leadership role responsible for defining and governing Empower's enterprise integration strategy across APIs, events, messaging, batch/file transfer, SaaS platforms, cloud-native services, legacy systems, data flows, and partner ecosystems.

This role partners closely with business and technology teams to create a technology vision and ensure that resulting systems and solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, observable, reusable, and aligned with business capabilities. The architect will develop integration strategies, reference architectures, reusable patterns, roadmaps, standards, and guidance across the IT delivery organization while addressing total cost of ownership, stability, performance, operational efficiency, and risk.

Responsibilities :

- Define and execute a business-aligned integration architecture strategy and vision for Empower.
- Develop, document, and maintain technology roadmaps for enterprise integration capabilities, including API management, event streaming, messaging, iPaaS, data integration, cloud integration, and partner connectivity.
- Guide teams on when to use synchronous APIs,



asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, batch/file transfer, data replication, change data capture, or workflow/process orchestration.
- Leverage knowledge of service-oriented architecture, microservices, domain-driven design, APIs, events, and integration patterns to deliver secure and scalable solutions.
- Ensure technology teams understand how to use RESTful APIs, resource-oriented design, OpenAPI, API gateways, event brokers, message queues, schema registries, integration runtimes, and modern authentication patterns.
- Define governance for API and event lifecycles, including design standards, versioning, discoverability, ownership, documentation, reuse, consumer onboarding, and deprecation.
- Develop and implement best practices, standards, guardrails, and guidance, and coach technology teams on adoption.
- Make leadership recommendations regarding strategic architecture considerations related to business process design, workflow orchestration, integration modernization, and platform consolidation.
- Respond to evolving security, privacy, resiliency, regulatory, and operational conditions; recommend and implement integration security guidelines.
- Design for reliability and operational excellence, including retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, correlation IDs, distributed tracing, dead-letter handling, error management, monitoring, alerting, and supportability.
- Provide thought leadership,



advocacy, articulation, assurance, and ongoing maintenance of the Enterprise Architecture discipline.

Required Qualifications :

- 15+ years of experience in the development, integration, architecture, and delivery of enterprise software systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise integration architecture across APIs, messaging, events, batch/file, SaaS, cloud, legacy, and partner integration scenarios.
- Strong knowledge of RESTful API design, OpenAPI specifications, API gateways, API management, API security, versioning, lifecycle management, and developer experience practices.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, messaging, publish/subscribe patterns, event streaming, event contracts, schema evolution, idempotency, replay, and eventual consistency.
- Hands-on architecture experience with one or more integration technologies or platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, Workato, Informatica, IBM App Connect, SAP Integration Suite, Kafka, Confluent, Solace, AWS integration services, or comparable technologies.
- Experience designing secure integrations using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, certificates, secrets management, encryption, least privilege, audit logging, and zero-trust principles.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid integration patterns across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, container platforms, on-premises systems, private connectivity, and enterprise network boundaries.
- Expertise in architectural cross-cutting concerns and trade-offs, including security, resiliency, performance, scalability, caching, observability, availability, operational support, and total cost of ownership.
- Robust knowledge of data modeling, data contracts, canonic

📌 Enterprise Architect - Integration (Bengaluru)
🏢 Empower
📍 Bengaluru