Integration Architect - Level 2

Job Summary

The Integration Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise integration solutions across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and partner ecosystems. This role serves as a bridge between business and technology teams, translating business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and future-ready integration architectures.

The Integration Architect will establish standards, reusable patterns, and best practices across the integration landscape while partnering closely with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable data exchange, real-time integrations, and enterprise platform scalability.

This role requires a strong combination of hands-on technical expertise, architectural governance, and stakeholder management experience within complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Integration Architecture & Design

• Design and lead the architecture of complex integrations using APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging, middleware, and cloud integration platforms.

• Define and maintain enterprise integration standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and best practices.

• Ensure integrations are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.

• Produce architecture artifacts including solution designs, sequence diagrams, integration specifications, data flows, and technical documentation.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the integration landscape.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Provide architectural leadership and technical guidance to integration and application delivery teams.

• Review solution designs and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Application teams to ensure alignment and governance.

• Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, and opportunities to reduce technical debt.

• Drive consistency across enterprise integration solutions and implementation practices.

Collaboration & Delivery Support

• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.

• Support project teams throughout design, development, testing, deployment, and production rollout phases.

• Facilitate architecture reviews and technical decision-making processes.

• Collaborate with vendors and third-party partners when integration initiatives require external systems connectivity.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure integration solutions meet non-functional requirements including reliability, performance, scalability, monitoring, availability, and supportability.

• Partner with operations and support teams to establish monitoring strategies, runbooks, and support models.

• Promote continuous improvement and operational efficiency across the integration ecosystem.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Master's degree or relevant architecture certifications are considered a plus.

Experience

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in Information Technology, Enterprise Applications, Integration, Middleware, or Solution Architecture roles.

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience as an Integration Architect, Solution Architect, or similar architecture-focused role.

• Proven experience designing and governing enterprise-scale integration solutions across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

• Experience supporting complex enterprise initiatives involving multiple business units, stakeholders, and technology platforms.

• Experience working within enterprise architecture frameworks, governance models, and technology standards.

• Experience supporting Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Technical Qualifications

Required

• Strong hands-on experience designing APIs using REST/JSON and service-based integration architectures.

• Experience with cloud integration platforms and middleware technologies.

• Deep understanding of integration patterns including:

  • Synchronous and asynchronous integrations

  • Event-driven architectures

  • Publish/Subscribe models

  • Orchestration

  • Data transformation patterns

• Strong understanding of security concepts incl