Lead Azure API & Integration Architect

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Quarterly profit share

Career progression programs

Flexible/remote working

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Educational assistance

Excellence awards

Diversity & inclusion initiatives

Zusammenfassung

Version 1 is seeking an Integration Solutions Architect to lead enterprise integration design across Azure, on-premises, and partner environments. Focus on Azure API Management, secure connectivity, and scalable patterns with governance.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, DevOps, and architecture teams to set API standards, automate deployments, and ensure robust security using APIM policies, OAuth/OIDC, and Key Vault. Flexible remote work option offered.

Qualifikationen

• 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 technologies such as Azure Service Bus and Event Grid.
• Strong API/application security knowledge including OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS and Azure Key Vault.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience producing HLDs and presenting architecture designs through governance/review processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience with Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions and Event Grid.
• Experience implementing APIOps/GitOps approaches for API lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of Azure API Center or similar API cataloguing/governance platforms.
• Experience with Azure observability tooling including Application Insights, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
• Knowledge of emerging AI integration patterns such as MCP.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

Architecture governance

APIM security

Ausbildung

Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)

Tools

Azure API Management (APIM)

OpenAPI/Swagger

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

OAuth2/OIDC

Azure Service Bus

Event Grid

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Jobbeschreibung

Version 1 is seeking an Integration Solutions Architect to lead enterprise integration design across Azure, on-premises, and partner environments. Focus on Azure API Management, secure connectivity, and scalable patterns with governance.

You will collaborate with engineering, platform, DevOps, and architecture teams to set API standards, automate deployments, and ensure robust security using APIM policies, OAuth/OIDC, and Key Vault. Flexible remote work option offered.