Enterprise Integration Architect: API & Data Platform Lead

Askblue; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Home office

Competitive salary

Job summary

Merkle, a dentsu company, seeks a Senior Integration Architect to lead end-to-end integration design across complex ecosystems. You'll shape API strategies, canonical data models, and data movement while guiding cross-functional teams and governance. This role blends architecture with presales and roadmap responsibilities.

You will work on enterprise integration across CRM/ERP, CDPs, and modern CMS stacks, leveraging iPaaS tools and cloud services to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT with focus on integration architecture (enterprise integration patterns, APIs/microservices, messaging, ETL/ELT).
• Proven experience designing and delivering API led architectures and integrations across CRM/ERP, CDPs, data platforms, and modern CMS/composable stacks.
• Hands on with one or more iPaaS/integration platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Workato, Azure Integration Services, Boomi) and cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong knowledge of security (OAuth2), observability (logging, tracing, metrics), and nonfunctional requirements (scalability, performance).
• Proficiency in API design (REST/GraphQL), specs (RAML/OpenAPI), and data transformations (DataWeave/JSON/CSV/XML).
• Excellent communication skills—able to present architectures, facilitate decisions, and lead cross functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of enterprise integration solutions that connect customer data, platforms, and digital experiences.
• Define integration patterns, platform selection, API strategies, and reference architectures; guide delivery teams and ensure standards for security, scalability, performance, and governance.
• Own the integration architecture across programs, data models, API-led connectivity, messaging/eventing, and data movement across cloud and on-prem platforms.
• Produce architecture artifacts and ensure traceability to business outcomes; define and enforce best practices for integration and security.
• Contribute to presales, estimation, scope assumptions, and architecture roadmaps; present options and tradeoffs to executives; mentor engineers and junior architects.

Skills

Enterprise patterns

APIs/microservices

Cloud platforms

Security OAuth2

API design REST/GraphQL

Observability

Communication

Tools

MuleSoft

Workato

Azure Integration Services

Boomi

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Merkle, a dentsu company, seeks a Senior Integration Architect to lead end-to-end integration design across complex ecosystems. You'll shape API strategies, canonical data models, and data movement while guiding cross-functional teams and governance. This role blends architecture with presales and roadmap responsibilities.

You will work on enterprise integration across CRM/ERP, CDPs, and modern CMS stacks, leveraging iPaaS tools and cloud services to deliver scalable, secure solutions.