Lead API & Event-Driven Integrations Architect

Jobtailor; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Integration Architect to lead the design and delivery of scalable integrations across systems, APIs and data flows.

You will set patterns, governance and best practices, mentor engineers and collaborate with architects, product owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust integration solutions that meet performance, security and observability standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in API and integration development.
• Designing robust integration services.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication.
• Understanding scalable, resilient integration architectures.
• Knowledge of API management, interface contracts, schemas and interoperability.
• Experience with integration patterns and distributed systems.
• Operational support, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution.
• Ability to design error handling, retry and replay mechanisms.
• Experience across complex tech estates with multiple source/consuming systems.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles including clean code, testing, version control and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient and maintainable system integrations.
• Define and promote integration patterns, standards and best practices across the technology estate.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to integration engineers and delivery teams.
• Design and support API-led and event-driven integration architectures.
• Develop and maintain APIs, interfaces and integration services connecting source systems, the Accounts platform and downstream consumers.
• Own and govern schemas, interface contracts and integration specifications.
• Design and implement event publication and consumption mechanisms.
• Ensure integrations meet resilience, scalability, security, observability and performance requirements.
• Establish approaches to error handling, retry, replay, monitoring and operational recovery.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex integration issues across systems and teams.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, product owners and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into integration solutions.
• Contribute to technical strategy, architectural decisions and continuous improvement of integration capability.
• Support knowledge sharing, technical mentoring and engineering standards.

Skills

API Development

Integration Services Design

Event-Driven Architecture

Asynchronous Communication

Messaging Systems

Distributed Systems

CI/CD Practices

Version Control

Technical Documentation

Operational Support

Error Handling Mechanisms

Interface Contracts

API Management

Schemas

Service Interoperability

Observability

Performance Requirements

Job description

Jobtailor in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Integration Architect to lead the design and delivery of scalable integrations across systems, APIs and data flows.

You will set patterns, governance and best practices, mentor engineers and collaborate with architects, product owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust integration solutions that meet performance, security and observability standards.