Integration Specialist – Enterprise APIs & Digital Platforms

Integration Specialist – Enterprise APIs & Digital Platforms

Work Model: Remote

Language: English required; Arabic highly preferred

About the Role

Digital Next is looking for an experienced Integration Specialist – Enterprise APIs & Digital Platforms to support major enterprise and government digital transformation programmes.

The role is responsible for designing, implementing, testing and supporting secure, reliable and scalable integrations between digital platforms, CMS/DXP solutions, enterprise applications, internal systems and approved external services.

We are looking for a hands-on integration specialist who can take an interface from requirements and API contract → technical design → implementation → testing → production readiness and support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure enterprise integrations using REST, SOAP, GraphQL and other applicable API technologies.
• Define and maintain API contracts, interface specifications, data mappings, schemas, authentication requirements and error-handling mechanisms.
• Implement integrations through approved API gateways, middleware and enterprise integration layers.
• Design and support push, pull, synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns as required.
• Integrate CMS, DXP and enterprise web platforms with internal applications, content repositories and external services.
• Work closely with development teams to implement integration capabilities using APIs, extensions and reusable integration components.
• Implement and troubleshoot authentication and authorization mechanisms including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Apply secure integration and API-security practices covering authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets, access control and data protection.
• Perform integration testing, troubleshooting, defect resolution, performance validation and production-readiness assessment.
• Diagnose integration failures across APIs, applications, middleware, authentication layers and external systems.
• Maintain accurate API specifications, interface documentation, mappings, configuration records and technical documentation.
• Support deployment, release, production troubleshooting and integration-related operational activities.
• Coordinate with solution architecture, security, infrastructure/cloud, development, QA and external system teams.
• Identify opportunities to create reusable integration patterns and components across projects.

Required Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong hands-on experience in enterprise system integration and API development.
• Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP, JSON, XML and GraphQL.
• Strong experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and API authentication/authorization patterns.
• Experience working with API gateways, middleware or enterprise integration platforms.
• Experience integrating CMS, DXP or enterprise web platforms with backend and third-party systems.
• Strong understanding of API security and secure enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience defining API contracts, data mappings, error handling and integration specifications.
• Strong troubleshooting and integration-testing capabilities.
• Ability to work across development, architecture, security and infrastructure teams.
• Ability to independently take an integration from technical design through implementation and production readiness.

Highly Desirable

• Experience with Microsoft Azure-based environments and Azure integration services.
• Hands-on experience integrating Liferay DXP with enterprise systems and external services.
• Experience with enterprise API management and integration platforms.
• Experience with event-driven or asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience working on large-scale enterprise or government digital platforms.
• Arabic language capability.

Language

English is required. Arabic is highly preferred.