Lead Integration Architect

About the role

The Lead Integration Architect/Developer is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, building, and modernising our enterprise integration ecosystems. You will own the technical roadmap for connecting distributed applications, SaaS systems, data platforms and legacy environments using secure cloud and hybrid integration platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Define and govern the integration reference architecture, API management, iPaaS/connectors, event‑driven messaging, workflow/orchestration and data movement.
• Establish engineering standards for API design, versioning, documentation, automated testing, code review, source control, deployment, secrets management, resilience and error handling.
• Maintain an integration catalogue that records ownership, data flows, system consumers and associated operational and security risks.
• Provide technical design assurance for projects and procurements to ensure compliance with integration standards.
• Design, build and maintain integration services (APIs, events, message flows, connectors, transformation scripts) and contribute hands‑on code.
• Develop reusable integration patterns using REST/OData, SOAP, IDocs/BAPIs, webhooks, message queues, SFTP, ETL/ELT and change‑data‑capture.
• Improve observability and reliability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, audit logging and incident‑response processes.
• Assess and remediate legacy point‑to‑point interfaces, batch jobs and unmanaged scripts.
• Manage platform, vendor and financial responsibilities, including budgeting, licences and service‑level contracts.
• Lead, coach and develop a small technical team, handling work allocation, mentorship and performance input.

Required profile

• Senior technical leader with deep expertise in enterprise integration architecture.
• Proven ability to design secure, high‑performing cloud and hybrid integration platforms.
• Experience mentoring engineering teams and driving governance standards.

Required skills

• REST and OData API design
• SOAP services
• IDocs and BAPIs
• Event‑driven and webhook patterns
• Message queue technologies
• SFTP / managed file transfer
• ETL / ELT processes
• Change data capture
• CI/CD pipeline implementation
• Monitoring, alerting and dashboard creation
• Audit logging and incident response
• API management and iPaaS platforms
• Workflow/orchestration tools
• DevSecOps practices including source control, secrets management, resilience and error handling