Integration Lead

Paragon Banking Group; Hampton in Arden; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bank is seeking an experienced Integration Lead to manage and optimize enterprise integration strategies. This hybrid role involves driving technical initiatives using Workato and mentoring team members. Responsibilities include designing integrations, establishing governance frameworks, and supporting colleagues to build a collaborative work environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise and leadership skills, with a focus on systems integration.

Benefits

Generous Holiday Allowance

Profit Related Pay

Pension Plan

Employee Discounts

Volunteering Day

Access to wellbeing resources

Qualifications

• Plan and drive integration activities using Workato.
• Provide support and guidance to colleagues.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of integration standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimise integrations across the organisation.
• Lead governance and mentor team members.
• Conduct code reviews and enforce compliance.

Skills

Technical expertise in systems integration

Leadership in driving integration activities

Knowledge of Workato iPaaS

Evaluate development options

Mentoring and coaching abilities

Tools

Workato

OutSystems

IBMi

Custom APIs

Job description

About the Role

Let's grow together! A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award‑winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Integration Lead looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you! We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let's grow together …

Responsibilities

This hybrid role blends deep technical proficiency in Workato iPaaS with leadership responsibilities to drive enterprise integration strategy. The role will design, build, and optimise integrations while also leading governance, mentoring, and stakeholder engagement across business units. Establish governance frameworks for recipe development, deployment, and version control. Conduct code reviews and enforce compliance with standards. Lead the implementation of a new Workato iPaaS instance, integrate with platforms such as OutSystems, IBMi and custom APIs, and define and implement integration architecture and standards across the organisation.

About You

What you’ll bring to the team:

• Can plan and drive integration activities, adopting and adapting appropriate Workato activities.

• Provide technical expertise for systems integration and build.

• Contribute to the development of and adherence to standards and guidance from an architectural perspective.

• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of all integration and orchestration layer concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities.

• Evaluate proposed options for development.

• Provide support and guidance for assigned colleagues, allocating routine tasks or project work in line with team objectives and individual capabilities.

• Coach colleagues in line with team and personal goals, and facilitate effective working relationships between team members.

Working Hours

This is a full‑time position set at 37.5 hours per week. Hybrid working in the office and from home.

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long‑term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

Benefits

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, plus a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week's leave.
• Swap Share Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate.
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees.
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension.
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment.
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more.
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year.
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover.
• Be flexible: We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work‑life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.
• Be yourself: As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That's why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business.
• Be heard: We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.
• Be well: We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing, including a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team, and our Vitality at Work programme to provide discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and other wellbeing services.
• Be better: We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.

Other Information

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.