Integration Architect

ASA Recruitment; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation, is recruiting an Integration Architect for an initial 11-month contract. The role focuses on designing secure, reusable integrations across the technology estate, with hybrid onsite work in Glasgow or Dundee.

You will lead API-led and event-driven integration, govern API strategies, and work with AWS services and Boomi. Strong governance, stakeholder engagement and agile delivery are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven Integration Architect in large public sector environments.
• Experience designing, governance and support for enterprise integrations using Boomi and API management.
• Strong AWS knowledge including API Gateway, Lambda, and IAM.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and governance leadership.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and assurance of system-to-system integrations.
• Define and maintain integration standards and reference models.
• Govern API connectivity and lifecycle management.
• Ensure non-functional requirements: security, performance, resilience.
• Provide architectural assurance through governance boards.
• Collaborate with architects, delivery teams, security, and suppliers.
• Offer hands-on architectural guidance during build.

Skills

Integration architecture

API Management

Stakeholder engagement

Architecture governance

Agile delivery

Tools

Boomi

AWS

Job description

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation with offices in both Glasgow and Dundee are currently looking to recruit an Integration Architect for an initial 11 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of £600-£700/day inside of IR35 (based on experience). This is a hybrid role with 2 days per week required onsite in either Glasgow or Dundee.

The Role:

• Lead the design and assurance of system-to system integrations, ensuring consistent, reusable and secure connectivity across the technology estate.
• Define, document and maintain integration architecture standards, patterns and reference models, with a particular focus on API-led and event-driven integration.
• Design and assure integrations deployed within AWS and Boomi, ensuring effective use of cloud-native services and delivering robust API management, messaging, orchestration and security requirements for resilience.
• Define and govern API connectivity models, including internal and external, 3rd-party integrations whilst ensuring appropriate versioning, documentation and lifecycle management.
• Ensure integrations meet non-functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency in line with public sector standards.
• Provide architectural assurance and challenge for integration designs presented through formal governance and review processes.
• Work collaboratively with Technical Architects, delivery teams, platform teams, security specialists and external suppliers to deliver agreed integration architectures.
• Support delivery teams during build and implementation phases by providing hands-on architectural guidance and resolving complex integration issues.

Demonstrable Experience of:

• Proven experience operating as an Integration Architect or equivalent specialist architecture role within a large and complex organisation.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, governing and supporting enterprise integration solutions using Boomi, including API Management, Integration, Master Data Management and Event Streams capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of application architecture and enterprise application landscapes, including SaaS, COTS and bespoke applications.
• Demonstrable experience defining integration standards, reference architectures, design principles and technical roadmaps.
• Experience leading architectural governance activities and providing technical assurance through Architecture Review Boards or equivalent governance forums.
• Proven ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders, suppliers, delivery teams and executive audiences, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
• Experience working within Agile and multidisciplinary delivery environments.
• Experience working in large public sector organisations with an understanding of government digital service standards and governance processes.
• Expert knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture, with practical experience of integration and API services including:
  • API Gateway
  • Lambda
  • EventBridge
  • SNS/SQS
  • Step Functions
  • ECS/EKS
  • IAM
  • CloudWatch
  • VPC networking and security controls
• Demonstrable experience defining and governing API strategies, including:
  • REST APIs
  • Event-driven APIs
  • API lifecycle management
  • Security standards
  • Versioning and governance models
• Strong understanding of integration architecture patterns and their appropriate application, including:
  • Point-to-point integration
  • Hub-and-spoke
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Publish-subscribe
  • Microservices integration
  • Data integration and synchronisation patterns
  • Hybrid cloud integration