Roles and Responsibilities:
- Strong analysis and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assemble a range of integration solution options and work towards an agreed outcome.
- Demonstrated strong knowledge of the integration domain and application architectures.
- Knowledge of APIs, micro frontends, microservices architecture, event-driven architecture, service mesh, orchestration, scheduling, and various real-time and batch integration patterns.
- Solution architect certification on at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure), with a focus on services related to integration and how solutions can leverage these.
- Broad experience in various technologies and integration patterns.
- Knowledge of at least one middleware product (e.g., TIBCO, IBM ACE, WPS) is desirable.
- Knowledge of messaging capabilities (e.g., IBM MQ, Kafka) is desirable.
- Experience in designing service interfaces and data integration projects; familiarity with APIs, SOA, web services, ESB, BPEL, and knowledge of business rules, service registries/repositories, event-driven architectures, and batch integration.
- Familiarity and practical experience with Insurance and Financial Services business processes and service models.
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs.
- Understanding of standard security standards and authentication protocols.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration skills.
- Experience leading end-to-end integration solution architecture and design.
- Understanding of key customer journeys and business drivers across the financial services value chain is advantageous.
- Experience across multiple architecture domains and knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.