Integration Engineer

neoleap; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

neoleap designs and governs complex enterprise integration solutions to ensure secure, scalable connectivity across applications, partners, and external services. The role acts as the senior technical authority for integration across the technology estate and leads the technical implementation of critical system integrations.

You will design architectures, define standards, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, performance, and regulatory compliance across all integrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; Master's preferred.
• 5+ years in enterprise integration with senior technical ownership.
• Deep expertise in IBM integration tooling (ACE, API Connect, MQ, DataPower) and Kafka.
• Strong grasp of API design, security protocols (OAuth2, mTLS), and message-level security.
• Payments experience with ISO 8583, ISO 20022, or scheme integrations is a plus.

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 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 and gateway policies.
• Ensure integrations meet security, performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
• Apply security controls for partner connectivity (mTLS, encryption, key handling).
• Review designs for architectural compliance and troubleshoot complex issues.

Skills

Enterprise integration

Technical ownership

API design

Security concepts

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's preferred

Tools

IBM ACE

API Connect

MQ

DataPower

Kafka

Job description

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

Key Activities:

• 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)