Lead Engineer - Integration

Insignia Financial; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Insignia Financial in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer – Integration to lead scalable, secure integration delivery across the enterprise. As technical lead for the Workato platform, you will shape patterns, governance and platform adoption while guiding migration from legacy middleware to modern cloud and iPaaS solutions.

Collaborate with architecture, delivery, application and business teams to improve speed and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise integration including migration and re-platforming to cloud or iPaaS.
• Hands-on Workato expertise across recipes, deployment, troubleshooting and monitoring.
• Leadership across solution design, estimation, stakeholder engagement and governance.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns and technologies (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML).
• Experience securing integrations with OAuth, API keys and data protection practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and SaaS integrations.
• DevOps practices, CI/CD, and scripting (Python/PowerShell/JavaScript).
• ITIL-based incident/problem/change management and DR planning.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise integration standards, architectures and governance.
• Design, develop and maintain complex Workato workflows and connectors.
• Lead integration migration and modernisation initiatives to Workato.
• Design secure API-led solutions for various integration patterns.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and design assurance to engineers.
• Establish monitoring, logging, observability, and disaster recovery practices.
• Coordinate deployment across Development, Test, UAT and Production with CI/CD.

Skills

Workato

Integration design

Platform governance

API-led integration

Cloud platforms

DevOps practices

Python/PowerShell/JS

Security & data protection

REST/SOAP APIs

ITIL knowledge

Tools

SFTP/FTPS

Workato platform (admin)

Job description

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

• 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.
• Experience applying DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, supported by scripting skills in languages such as Python, PowerShell or JavaScript.
• Sound knowledge of ITIL practices, incident, problem and change management, SLA management, platform upgrades, disaster recovery planning and production support.

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