Azure API & Integration Architect | Remote & Flexible

Version 1; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly profit share

Career development programs

Flexible/remote working

Private healthcare

Pension

Educational support

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking an experienced Integration Solutions Architect to lead design and governance of enterprise integration across cloud-native, on-premises and partner environments. The role centers on Microsoft Azure and APIM, developing secure, scalable API architectures and reusable patterns.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, DevOps and architecture teams to set API standards, automate deployments and ensure secure connectivity across Azure environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience across software engineering, solution architecture or integration architecture.
• Strong experience designing distributed, cloud and enterprise integration solutions.
• Deep hands-on architectural knowledge of Azure API Management (APIM).
• Experience with APIM networking and hub-and-spoke architectures.
• Experience with API Products, subscriptions and API consumption models.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with asynchronous and event-driven integration using Azure Service Bus and Event Grid.
• Strong API/security knowledge including OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS and Azure Key Vault.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience producing HLDs and presenting designs through governance/review processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of enterprise integration solutions across Azure, on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Solution Architecture Documents and interface/API specifications.
• Design and govern enterprise APIs using Azure API Management (APIM).
• Define API design and governance standards, including OpenAPI/Swagger and versioning.
• Design APIM Products, subscriptions, throttling and consumption models for internal and external consumers.
• Establish reusable API and integration patterns and promote API discovery and reuse.
• Define APIM policies and policy fragments for authentication, routing, transformation and validation.
• Define secure API architectures using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, Entra ID and Key Vault.
• Design secure hybrid integration architectures with Azure VNets, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway/WAF and Hub‑and‑Spoke.
• Work with Platform and DevOps to establish CI/CD and APIOps/GitOps for API deployments.
• Guide Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or Bicep.
• Design integration patterns using REST, microservices, Azure Service Bus, Event Grid and event-driven architectures.
• Establish monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Present designs through architecture governance and review processes.
• Provide technical leadership and promote API-first, loosely coupled architecture patterns.

Skills

Azure APIM

APIM policies

OpenAPI/Swagger

REST APIs

Azure Service Bus

Event Grid

OAuth2/OIDC/JWT/mTLS

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

HLDs

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Azure APIM

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Job description

Version 1 is seeking an experienced Integration Solutions Architect to lead design and governance of enterprise integration across cloud-native, on-premises and partner environments. The role centers on Microsoft Azure and APIM, developing secure, scalable API architectures and reusable patterns.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, DevOps and architecture teams to set API standards, automate deployments and ensure secure connectivity across Azure environments.