Senior Integration Architect

We're Hiring: Senior Integration Architect

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to connecting business capabilities, applications, data, platforms, and digital services through secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions.

Our Technology, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, Product, and Operations teams collaborate to build modern integration environments that enable seamless information exchange, process automation, system interoperability, and digital transformation across diverse markets.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Integration Architect to lead enterprise integration architecture, API strategy, event-driven integration, middleware platforms, data integration, system interoperability, and integration modernization.

The ideal candidate will provide senior technical leadership in designing scalable integration architectures that connect applications, cloud services, enterprise platforms, data sources, external partners, and digital channels while ensuring security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and strong governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement enterprise integration architecture strategies aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Define current-state and target-state integration architectures across applications, platforms, data, and external systems.
• Establish integration architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and governance frameworks.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and reusable integration solutions.
• Develop enterprise integration roadmaps covering APIs, messaging, events, middleware, data integration, and integration platforms.
• Assess business and application requirements and translate them into appropriate integration architectures.
• Design integration solutions across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-platform environments.
• Define enterprise API strategies, standards, lifecycle models, and governance practices.
• Design RESTful, event-driven, asynchronous, synchronous, and service-based integration architectures.
• Establish API design standards covering authentication, authorization, versioning, documentation, error handling, throttling, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Design and govern API gateways, API management platforms, developer portals, and API security controls.
• Develop event-driven architectures using messaging, event streaming, queues, topics, and publish-subscribe patterns.
• Evaluate and define appropriate integration patterns for real-time, near-real-time, and batch processing requirements.
• Design integrations between ERP, CRM, HR, finance, supply chain, customer platforms, data platforms, and other enterprise applications.
• Lead integration architecture for cloud-native applications, microservices, legacy platforms, and third-party systems.
• Define integration approaches for legacy-system modernization and application transformation.
• Design service orchestration, process integration, workflow integration, and business-process automation solutions.
• Establish standards for message formats, schemas, contracts, canonical data models, and interface specifications.
• Promote reusable integration services and shared enterprise integration capabilities.
• Design data integration solutions across operational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, APIs, and analytical platforms.
• Collaborate with Data Architecture teams to ensure integration designs support data quality, lineage, ownership, and governance requirements.
• Establish integration approaches for structured and unstructured data where applicable.
• Design secure integrations with external partners, suppliers, financial institutions, customers, regulators, and service providers.
• Define B2B integration strategies using APIs, file-based integration, messaging, and other appropriate technologies.
• Establish integration standards for secure file transfer, managed file transfer, and automated data exchange.
• Design integration solutions supporting high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Define integration performance, capacity, throughput, latency, and availability requirements.
• Design appropriate retry, timeout, throttling, queuing, circuit-breaker, failover, and error-handling mechanisms.
• Establish integration observability requirements covering logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Develop standards for integration error management, exception handling, reconciliation, and recovery.
• Define integration security architecture covering identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, certificates, and secure communications.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams to ensure integrations meet security, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Assess integration risks and identify vulnerabilities, technical debt, performance constraints, and architectural weaknesses.
• Lead architecture reviews, integration design workshops, technical assessments, and solution evaluations.
• Review integration designs produced by engineering and delivery teams and provide architectural guidance.
• Develop architecture diagrams, interface specifications, integration contracts, sequence diagrams, data-flow diagrams, and technical decision records.
• Establish integration documentation standards and maintain accurate architecture repositories.
• Evaluate integration platforms, middleware, API-management solutions, event-streaming technologies, and integration-as-a-service offerings.
• Assess vendors and technology platforms based on functionality, scalability, security, performance, interoperability, cost, and long-term viability.
• Participate in RFPs, technical evaluations, proof-of-concept initiatives, and vendor-selection processes.
• Define technical requirements and acceptance criteria for integration platforms and implementation partners.
• Support integration platform implementation, migration, modernization, and consolidation programs.
• Develop migration strategies for legacy interfaces, point-to-point integrations, and outdated middleware platforms.
• Identify opportunities to replace fragile point-to-point integrations with reusable APIs, events, services, or standardized integration patterns.
• Promote API-first, event-driven, service-oriented, and reusable integration approaches where appropriate.
• Establish integration lifecycle-management processes covering design, development, testing, deployment, versioning, monitoring, maintenance, and retirement.
• Define integration testing strategies including functional, performance, security, resilience, contract, and end-to-end testing.
• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery practices for integration services and APIs.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Platform Engineering teams to automate integration deployment and infrastructure management.

Key Performance Indicators

• Integration architecture compliance
• Integration standards adoption
• API design compliance
• API availability
• API response time
• API error rate
• Integration transaction success rate
• Integration throughput
• Integration latency
• Message-processing success rate
• Event-processing reliability
• Integration platform availability
• Middleware availability
• Integration incident frequency
• Mean time to resolve integration incidents
• Mean time to recover from integration failures
• Recurring integration-incident reduction
• Integration failure rate
• Interface reconciliation accuracy
• Data synchronization accuracy
• Data integration completeness
• API reuse rate
• Reusable integration-component adoption
• Point-to-point integration reduction
• Legacy integration retirement
• Integration modernization progress
• Integration automation coverage
• CI/CD adoption for integration services
• Automated integration testing coverage
• Contract-testing coverage
• Integration security compliance
• API vulnerability remediation
• Certificate and credential compliance
• Integration monitoring coverage
• Logging and tracing coverage
• Integration capacity utilization
• Integration scalability
• Integration project delivery performance
• Integration migration success rate
• Vendor SLA performance
• Integration technical-debt reduction
• Integration cost optimization
• Architecture review completion
• Documentation completeness
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Integration platform lifecycle compliance

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in integration architecture, enterprise integration, API architecture, middleware architecture, solution architecture, event-driven architecture, or digital integration, preferably within a complex, multinational, technology-driven, or highly regulated environment.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of enterprise integration architecture principles and patterns.
• Proven experience designing complex application and platform integration solutions.
• Strong knowledge of API architecture, API management, and API lifecycle governance.
• Experience designing REST, asynchronous, event-driven, messaging, and service-based integrations.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns including orchestration, choreography, publish-subscribe, request-response, batch, and event streaming.
• Experience with API gateways, integration platforms, enterprise service buses, messaging platforms, or iPaaS technologies.
• Familiarity with platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, AWS integration services, Google Cloud integration technologies, IBM integration platforms, or comparable solutions.
• Strong understanding of event-streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent platforms.