Lead Integration & Data Architect - Hybrid, Global Team

rindus; Málaga; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private health insurance from day 1

Gym sponsorship

English and German language classes

23 holiday days

Job summary

rindus, in partnership with StiboDX, seeks a senior integration architect to design modular, microservices-based integration patterns, own event-driven architecture on Kafka, and drive data governance across domains. You will guide teams to adopt durable platform standards, reduce fragmentation, and align domain contracts with API, event, and data design.

Join a distributed team from Málaga and help standardize platform interfaces.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software/data engineering or architecture
• 5+ years in a senior role focused on integration, APIs, events, and/or data architecture
• Proven experience designing and governing APIs in large, distributed, multi-team environments
• Strong REST and GraphQL API design, versioning, and contract-first approaches
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture in production, preferably Kafka
• Experience with integration patterns: messaging, pub/sub, request/reply, outbox, saga/process manager, and CDC
• Strong understanding of schema modeling and schema evolution for APIs and events
• Experience defining data domains, ownership models, and data governance in a product or platform context
• Ability to connect DDD concepts (bounded contexts, domain events, aggregates) to integration and data design
• Understanding of AWS, Kubernetes-based platforms, and multi-tenant SaaS implications for data isolation and integration boundaries
• Security-aware design across APIs and events, authentication, authorization, zero-trust principles

Responsibilities

• Design integration patterns for a modular, microservices-based platform, sync vs async, anti-corruption layers, adapters, and migration from bespoke customer integrations to standardized platform interfaces
• Own event-driven architecture on Kafka, topic design, event contracts, schema evolution, CDC/streaming, and consistency models
• Establish data domains and governance, ownership models, schema definition and evolution, metadata, lineage, quality, classification, retention, and compliance readiness
• Align contracts with domain boundaries, connect bounded contexts, domain events, and service ownership to API, event, and data design, in close collaboration with the Software Architect
• Enable teams through architecture leadership, produce reference architectures and integration blueprints, shepherd ADRs, review high-risk designs, and coach teams on better patterns without blocking delivery
• Reduce fragmentation and drive consolidation, identify one-off approaches early and steer teams toward reusable platform standards
• Partner across architecture and delivery, work with platform, product, and engineering teams to ensure standards are usable, adopted, and durable

Skills

APIs design

REST

GraphQL

Event-driven

Data governance

DDD concepts

Security

Communication

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

rindus, in partnership with StiboDX, seeks a senior integration architect to design modular, microservices-based integration patterns, own event-driven architecture on Kafka, and drive data governance across domains. You will guide teams to adopt durable platform standards, reduce fragmentation, and align domain contracts with API, event, and data design.

Join a distributed team from Málaga and help standardize platform interfaces.