Senior Integration Tech Lead - Java, Spring Boot, Kafka

Virgin Australia Airlines; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted flights for you and your L0

Flexible, hybrid work style

Brisbane head office location

Travel insurance discounts

Wellbeing and counselling support

Dress for Your Day

Job summary

Virgin Australia Airlines is seeking a Senior Integration Engineer to lead the design and delivery of integration solutions that power Operations projects. You'll guide teams across Java-based microservices, API management, and event-driven patterns, ensuring scalable, observable, and secure integrations.

Based in Brisbane with Sydney-based flexibility, you’ll drive technical discovery, provide leadership, and collaborate with architects and product teams to deliver high-impact outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience with a strong integration focus.
• Hands-on experience with Java-based microservices and modern integration patterns.
• Familiarity with API design, REST/SOAP, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of APIs, Java microservices, and event-driven integrations.
• Translate architecture into detailed physical designs, plans, and standards.
• Establish and maintain integration engineering standards and reusable assets.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
• Guide teams in synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns (REST, SOAP, APIs, event streaming).
• Oversee technical discovery, estimation, and delivery planning across design, build, test, deployment, and support.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

API Management

Event-driven integration

CI/CD

Observability

Leadership

Job description

Virgin Australia Airlines is seeking a Senior Integration Engineer to lead the design and delivery of integration solutions that power Operations projects. You'll guide teams across Java-based microservices, API management, and event-driven patterns, ensuring scalable, observable, and secure integrations.

Based in Brisbane with Sydney-based flexibility, you’ll drive technical discovery, provide leadership, and collaborate with architects and product teams to deliver high-impact outcomes.