The company is seeking a Solutions Architect specializing in Integration to lead the architecture of integration and API layers across the platform. This role involves defining standards for APIs, integration patterns, event-driven messaging, and third-party connectivity. A broad architectural understanding across multiple disciplines and deep expertise in integration technologies and API management is required.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Define integration architecture strategy aligned with organizational goals.
- Establish API standards, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility practices.
- Design and govern API gateway infrastructure and policies.
- Architect event-driven and message-based integration patterns.
- Define data flows, transformation logic, and contract standards between systems.
- Lead technical design reviews and key architectural decisions for integration.
- Design third-party service integration approaches and manage external dependencies.
- Define error handling, retry, and circuit breaker strategies for integrations.
- Ensure security across integration points including authentication, authorization, and data protection.
- Define monitoring, logging, and observability strategies for integration layers.
- Mentor engineering teams and support capability development in integration practices.
- Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance.
- Produce and maintain integration architecture documentation, system diagrams, and data flow models.
- Evaluate integration technologies, middleware, and emerging approaches.
- Manage technical debt in integration layers and lead simplification initiatives.
- Present architectural decisions to senior stakeholders.
Expected Outcomes:
- A coherent and consistent API and integration ecosystem.
- Improved reliability and observability across integration points.
- Reduced complexity through well-designed integration patterns and standards.
- Adoption of consistent API and integration architecture patterns across teams.
Technical Skills:
- Core technologies: Apigee, NodeJS
- Architecture and design: RESTful API design, event-driven architecture, enterprise integration patterns, API gateway design and governance
- Integration: Message queuing and asynchronous processing, third-party service integration, data transformation and contract management
- Security and performance: Authentication and authorization patterns including OAuth and JWT, data encryption and secure data handling
This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned professional to contribute to architectural standards and reusable patterns while participating in architectural governance and review forums. If you have strong communication skills and a proven track record in integration architecture, we encourage you to apply.
