Key Responsibilities1. Integration Leadership
- Lead integration initiatives across strategic programs and technology projects.
- Provide guidance on integration approaches, patterns, standards, and best practices.
- Promote consistent, scalable, maintainable, and reusable integration solutions.
- Partner with delivery teams to identify integration requirements and considerations early in the project lifecycle.
2. Reusability and Continuous Improvement
- Drive adoption of reusable APIs, services, integration components, and common capabilities.
- Promote standardization and enterprise-wide reuse across projects and platforms.
- Develop integration playbooks, design guidelines, and implementation best practices.
- Identify opportunities to simplify integrations, improve interoperability, and enhance delivery efficiency.
3. Cross Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with business, application, infrastructure, security, data, and architecture teams to deliver effective integration solutions.
- Facilitate alignment on integration approaches, priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
- Coordinate dependencies across teams and support successful project execution.
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, vendors, and technology partners.
4. Delivery and Solution Oversight
- Review integration designs and provide recommendations to improve quality, resilience, scalability, and operational supportability.
- Support implementation planning, production readiness assessments, and operational handover activities.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture and solution teams to ensure alignment with approved standards and technology direction.
5. Technology Modernization
- Champion modern integration approaches including API-led, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures.
- Support AI, workflow automation, cloud, and platform modernization initiatives through effective enterprise integration.
- Evaluate tools, frameworks, accelerators, and patterns that improve integration capability and delivery effectiveness.
- Drive initiatives to improve system connectivity, data exchange, and platform reuse across the technology landscape.
6. Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Ensure integration solutions comply with security, regulatory, operational resilience, and technology risk requirements.
- Promote observability, monitoring, supportability, and resilience as core design principles.
- Support governance, audit, compliance, and control activities related to integration solutions.
- Identify and address integration-related risks, technical debt, and architecture concerns.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, system integration, middleware, architecture, or technology delivery.
- Proven experience leading complex integration initiatives across multiple applications, platforms, and business domains.
- Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise integration platform transformation programmes, including large-scale integration platforms.
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, and modern integration practices.
- Experience with API management platforms, integration middleware, cloud and hybrid integration environments, and enterprise application ecosystems.
- Understanding of integration considerations for AI-enabled solutions, including connectivity between AI platforms, enterprise applications, data services, and business workflows.
- Good understanding of microservices, container platforms, data integration, workflow automation, and platform modernization technologies.
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills with the ability to influence and drive outcomes across diverse teams.
- Experience working with delivery, architecture, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams in large organizations.
- Experience in Banking or Financial Services is preferred.
Key Competencies
- Enterprise integration leadership
- API and event-driven architecture expertise
- Technology modernization mindset
- Cross-functional stakeholder management
- Governance, risk and control awareness
- Solution quality and operational resilience focus
- Strategic planning and execution
- Executive communication and influence