Expert Integration Engineer

TAWANTECH; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 320,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

TAWANTECH is seeking a Senior Enterprise Integration Architect to design and govern complex integration solutions across the technology estate in Riyadh. You will act as the senior technical authority, defining standards and patterns, and leading critical implementations with partners and internal platforms.

You will architect synchronous, asynchronous, and event-driven integrations, manage API lifecycles, and ensure security and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field; master’s preferred.
• 5+ years in enterprise integration with senior ownership.
• Deep expertise in IBM tooling (ACE, API Connect, MQ, DataPower) and Kafka.
• Strong API design and security knowledge (OAuth2, mTLS).
• Payments experience with ISO 8583, ISO 20022 (nice to have).
• Professional certificates.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior technical authority for enterprise integration.
• Design complex integration architectures, APIs, interfaces and messaging solutions.
• Define integration standards, patterns, protocols, and engineering practices.
• Lead technical implementation of critical system integrations with partners and internal platforms.
• Design synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, and API-based integrations.
• Own API lifecycle management, including versioning and gateway policies.
• Ensure integrations meet security, performance, availability and scalability requirements.
• Trroubleshoot complex integration issues across system boundaries.
• Mentor integration engineers and contribute to enterprise architecture initiatives.

Skills

Technical ownership

Leadership

Enterprise integration

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

IBM ACE

API Connect

MQ

DataPower

Kafka

Job description

Purpose:

To design and govern complex enterprise integration solutions, ensuring secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient connectivity between applications, platforms, partners, and external services.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as senior technical authority for enterprise integration across the technology estate.

• Design complex integration architectures, APIs, interfaces, and messaging solutions.

• Define integration standards, patterns, protocols, and engineering practices.

• Lead technical implementation of critical system integrations with partners, schemes, and internal platforms.

• Design synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, and API-based integration solutions.

• Build and govern integrations on the enterprise integration stack (IBM ACE/API Connect, MQ, Kafka).

• Own API lifecycle management, including versioning, gateway policies, and consumer onboarding.

• Ensure integrations meet security, performance, availability, and scalability requirements.

• Apply security controls for partner connectivity, including mTLS, certificate management, encryption, and secure key handling.

• Ensure integrations satisfy regulatory, audit, and change-governance requirements.

• Review integration designs and implementations for architectural compliance.

• Troubleshoot complex integration and production issues across system boundaries.

• Optimize integration performance, reliability, monitoring, error handling, and reconciliation.

• Identify integration risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and recommend improvements.

• Mentor integration engineers and contribute to enterprise integration architecture initiatives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master’s preferred.

• 5+ years in enterprise integration, including senior technical ownership.

• Deep expertise in IBM integration tooling (ACE, API Connect, MQ, DataPower) and event streaming (Kafka).

• Strong grasp of API design, security protocols (OAuth2, mTLS), and message-level security.

• Payments experience with ISO 8583, ISO 20022, or scheme integrations (Good to have)

• Professional Certificates.