Strategic Integration Architect for IoT and Platforms

Agilent Technologies; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Agilent Technologies in Barcelona, Spain, seeks an experienced Integration Architect to design and own integration architecture across software, instruments, applications, and enterprise systems. You will define APIs, event-driven patterns, and schema governance while guiding containerized solutions with Kubernetes for platform-scale reliability.

The role demands deep hands-on experience in integrations for connected devices, edge computing, and real-time data exchange, with a track record of

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering or architecture experience, with 5+ years in hands-on integration architecture roles.
• Deep practical expertise across REST/GraphQL API design, event-driven architecture, and schema governance.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, deploying, operating, and architecting containerised workloads at platform scale.
• Experience with Docker and cloud-native deployment patterns across edge and cloud environments.
• Experience architecting integrations for connected devices, IoT platforms, or hardware-centric ecosystems.
• Understanding of device connectivity, telemetry, edge computing, and real-time data integration patterns.
• Proven track record delivering integration solutions and owning design and quality through implementation.
• Experience setting and enforcing API versioning, schema management, and contract-based integration standards.
• Ability to make and defend binding architecture decisions across teams with competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design and own integration architecture solutions across software platform, instruments, applications, and enterprise systems
• Define integration standards and reference architectures: API design, event-driven patterns, schema governance, and versioning, and validate their implementation in practice
• Architect and hands-on guide containerized integration solutions using Kubernetes, ensuring platform-grade reliability, scalability, and operability
• Review and approve critical integration designs across product teams, making binding architecture decisions where standards are at stake
• Build and maintain a library of reusable integration patterns and reference implementations, working code and blueprints, not just documentation
• Provide architecture leadership for integrations involving connected instruments, laboratory systems, IoT devices, and edge computing environments, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable data exchange between physical products and software platforms.
• Partner across divisions as the go-to integration authority, solving complex cross‑system and cross‑organizational architecture problems directly
• Define integration contracts between platform services, instruments, and enterprise systems, owning technical quality of those interfaces
• Identify and actively remediate integration patterns that introduce technical debt, bypass governance, or create cross‑team coupling risks

Skills

Integration architecture

API design

Event-driven architecture

Schema governance

Cross-team collaboration

Architecture decision making

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud-native deployment

GitOps

Service mesh

API gateway

Job description

Agilent Technologies in Barcelona, Spain, seeks an experienced Integration Architect to design and own integration architecture across software, instruments, applications, and enterprise systems. You will define APIs, event-driven patterns, and schema governance while guiding containerized solutions with Kubernetes for platform-scale reliability.

The role demands deep hands-on experience in integrations for connected devices, edge computing, and real-time data exchange, with a track record of