Lead Engineer - Integration

IOOF Holdings Limited; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IOOF Holdings Limited is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer - Integration to drive scalable, secure Workato-based integration solutions across the enterprise. You’ll combine hands-on engineering with architecture leadership and platform governance to modernise integrations from legacy middleware to cloud and iPaaS.

You will guide pattern development, support platform adoption and collaborate with architecture, delivery, applications and business teams to improve speed, reliability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of integration experience including greenfield projects.
• Strong hands-on Workato expertise across recipes and connectors.
• Technical leadership spanning design, estimation, stakeholder engagement and governance.
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs, API-led integration, event-driven architecture, ETL and messaging.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise integration standards, reference architectures, governance frameworks and engineering best practices across the Workato platform.
• Design, develop and maintain complex Workato workflows, including reusable recipes and connectors.
• Lead integration migration and modernisation from legacy middleware to Workato.
• Design secure API-led solutions for synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven and file-based integration patterns.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship and design assurance to integration engineers.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting and observability with robust error handling and resilience.
• Manage deployment and lifecycle activities across Development, Test, UAT and Production with DevOps/CI/CD.
• Partner with internal teams and stakeholders to support onboarding, governance, and go-live activities.

Skills

Workato

Integration architecture

API-led integration

Cloud platforms

DevOps / CI/CD

Tools

Workato

REST

SOAP

JSON

XML

Job description

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• Lead the future of enterprise integration with Workato
• Drive integration modernisation across critical business systems

The opportunity to join our team

We are seeking an experienced Lead Engineer - Integration, to lead the delivery of scalable, secure and resilient integration solutions across our enterprise technology environment. As the technical lead for the Workato platform, you will combine hands-on engineering expertise with architecture leadership, platform governance and stakeholder engagement. You will establish reusable integration patterns, guide platform adoption and support the modernisation of integrations from legacy middleware to contemporary cloud and iPaaS solutions. Working closely with architecture, delivery, application and business teams, you will help simplify the technology landscape and improve the speed, consistency and reliability of integration delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain enterprise integration standards, reference architectures, governance frameworks and engineering best practices across the Workato platform.
• Design, develop and maintain complex Workato workflows, including reusable recipes, callable recipes, lookup tables, framework components and custom connectors.
• Lead integration migration and modernisation initiatives, including the transition of integrations from legacy middleware platforms to Workato.
• Design secure API-led solutions that support synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, messaging and file-based integration patterns.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and design assurance to integration engineers while promoting engineering quality and continuous improvement.
• Establish effective monitoring, logging, alerting and observability, supported by robust error handling, retry, resilience, disaster recovery and performance optimisation practices.
• Manage deployment and application lifecycle activities across Development, Test, UAT and Production environments, supported by DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Partner with internal teams, business stakeholders, vendors and the Platform Owner to support onboarding, governance, roadmap planning, go-live, transition to BAU and major incident resolution

What you will bring:

• 8+ years of integration experience, including greenfield implementations, migration programs and the re-platforming of legacy integrations to cloud or iPaaS solutions.
• Strong hands-on Workato expertise across recipe development, deployment, troubleshooting, monitoring, optimisation and platform operations.
• Demonstrated technical leadership capability spanning solution design, effort estimation, stakeholder engagement, mentoring and delivery governance.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns and technologies, including REST and SOAP APIs, JSON, XML, API-led integration, event-driven architecture, ETL and messaging frameworks.
• Experience implementing secure and resilient integrations using OAuth, API keys, encryption, secrets management, access controls and other data protection practices.
• Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP, together with experience integrating SaaS applications and working with MFT protocols such as SFTP and FTPS.
• Sound knowledge of ITIL practices, incident, problem and change management, SLA management, platform upgrades, disaster recovery planning and production support.

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Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

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