Integration Architect - Level 2

Job Summary

The Integration Architect is responsible for collaborating on the design, architecture, and governance of enterprise integration solutions across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and partner ecosystems with guidance from the Enterprise Integration Architect. This role bridges business and IT by translating business needs into scalable, secure, and resilient integration architectures, while establishing standards, patterns, and best practices across the integration landscape. The Integration Architect partners closely with engineering teams, product owners, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to enable reliable data exchange, real-time integrations, and future-ready platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Integration Architecture & Design

• Collaborate on the architecture and design of complex integrations using APIs, event-driven patterns, messaging, and middleware platforms.

• Maintain enterprise integration standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.

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

• Produce high-quality architecture artifacts including solution designs, sequence diagrams, data flows, and integration specifications.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Provide architectural guidance and oversight to integration and application delivery teams.

• Review solution designs and enforce architectural standards and best practices.

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

• Identify and reduce technical debt across the integration landscape.

Collaboration & Delivery Support

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

• Support project teams through design, build, testing, and production rollout.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure integrations meet non-functional requirements such as reliability, availability, monitoring, and supportability.

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

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing APIs (REST/JSON) and service-based integrations

• Experience with cloud integration platforms and middleware solutions

• Deep understanding of integration patterns (sync/async, event-driven, pub/sub, orchestration, transformation)

• Experience with security concepts including OAuth, JWT, certificates, encryption, and secure data exchange

• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience with Oracle Integration Cloud, Azure Integration Services

• Experience with API Management platforms

• Knowledge of messaging and event platforms (Service Bus, queues, topics)

• Experience integrating ERP, SaaS, CRM, eCommerce, and supply chain platforms

Key Competencies

• Enterprise-scale architecture thinking

• Strong problem solving and systems design skills

• Ability to balance quick delivery with long-term architectural integrity

• Collaborative leadership mindset

• Business-oriented technology approach