Azure APIM & Enterprise Integration Architect - Remote

Version 1; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Profit Share Scheme

Career Development & Mentorship

Flexible/Remote Working

Pension

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Employee Discount

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking an experienced Integration Solutions Architect to lead design, governance and modernisation of enterprise integration across cloud-native, legacy and partner environments. Focus on Microsoft Azure and Azure API Management (APIM) to design secure, scalable architectures.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, DevOps and architecture teams to establish API standards, patterns, deployment approaches and 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 including internal VNet configurations, private DNS and Hub-and-Spoke architectures.
• Strong knowledge of APIM policies, Policy Fragments and API gateway configuration.
• 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 cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure.

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, versioning, schema management and API lifecycle management.
• 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.
• Design and implement APIM policies and Policy Fragments covering authentication, routing, transformation and payload validation.
• Define secure API architectures using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Key Vault.
• Design secure hybrid integration architectures incorporating Azure VNets, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway/WAF and Hub-and-Spoke architectures.
• Define non-functional requirements covering scalability, availability, performance, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Work with Platform and DevOps teams to establish CI/CD and APIOps/GitOps practices for API deployments.
• Guide Infrastructure as Code implementation using Terraform or Bicep.
• Design integration patterns using REST APIs, microservices, Azure Service Bus, Event Grid and event-driven architectures.
• Establish monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Present solution designs through architecture governance and review processes.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams and promote API-first and loosely coupled architecture patterns.

Skills

Azure APIM

APIM policies

REST APIs

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

CI/CD

Terraform

Azure DevOps

OpenAPI/Swagger

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Job description

Version 1 is seeking an experienced Integration Solutions Architect to lead design, governance and modernisation of enterprise integration across cloud-native, legacy and partner environments. Focus on Microsoft Azure and Azure API Management (APIM) to design secure, scalable architectures.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, DevOps and architecture teams to establish API standards, patterns, deployment approaches and secure connectivity across Azure environments.