Azure Integration Architect & Team Lead (Hands-On)

numi; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Pension plan

Life assurance

Employee perks

Hybrid work

Job summary

numi, a leading international food and drink retailer, is modernising its data and integrations in the UK from Manchester. We seek a builder-manager who can personally craft the hardest Azure integrations while mentoring a small team.

You will own the Azure integration stack (APIM, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid) and drive API design, security, and observability. Hybrid role with 2–3 days in Manchester office.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building production integrations on Azure.
• Experience leading a small engineering team, including hiring and mentoring.
• Strong API design skills (REST, JSON, OpenAPI) and event-driven patterns on Azure.
• Experience managing vendor/MSP migration or decommission projects.

Responsibilities

• Own the integration architecture for SaaS source systems and Azure-based builds.
• Personally design and build the most complex, high-risk integrations on the Azure stack.
• Line-manage a team of 3–4 integration engineers: hiring, performance, and culture.
• Wind-down legacy Mulesoft estate with a stable migration plan to Azure.
• Define and enforce integration patterns, API standards, security and observability.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, and observability dashboards.

Skills

Azure

API design

Team leadership

Mulesoft decommission

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Azure APIM

Logic Apps

Function Apps

Service Bus

Event Grid

Key Vault

Application Insights

Log Analytics

Mulesoft

Job description

numi, a leading international food and drink retailer, is modernising its data and integrations in the UK from Manchester. We seek a builder-manager who can personally craft the hardest Azure integrations while mentoring a small team.

You will own the Azure integration stack (APIM, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid) and drive API design, security, and observability. Hybrid role with 2–3 days in Manchester office.