Director of Enterprise API & Integration Leadership

The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Singapore Branch); Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Singapore Branch) seeks a seasoned Enterprise Integration Lead to guide large-scale integration programs across diverse applications and platforms. You will shape strategies for API-led connectivity, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native architectures while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.

Applicants should bring 15+ years in software engineering or integration delivery, strong leadership, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering, system integration, middleware, architecture experience.
• Proven leadership of complex integration initiatives across multiple applications, platforms, and business domains.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, and modern integration practices.
• Experience with API management platforms, integration middleware, cloud and hybrid integration environments, and enterprise application ecosystems.
• Understanding of integration considerations for AI-enabled solutions, including connectivity between AI platforms, enterprise applications, data services, and business workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration initiatives across strategic programs and technology projects.
• Provide guidance on integration approaches, patterns, standards, and best practices.
• Promote consistent, scalable, maintainable, and reusable integration solutions.
• Partner with delivery teams to identify integration requirements and considerations early in the project lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of reusable APIs, services, integration components, and common capabilities.
• Promote standardization and enterprise-wide reuse across projects and platforms.
• Develop integration playbooks, design guidelines, and implementation best practices.
• Identify opportunities to simplify integrations, improve interoperability, and enhance delivery efficiency.
• Work closely with business, application, infrastructure, security, data, and architecture teams to deliver effective integration solutions.
• Facilitate alignment on integration approaches, priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and support successful project execution.
• Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, vendors, and technology partners.
• Champion modern integration approaches including API-led, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures.
• Support AI, workflow automation, cloud, and platform modernization initiatives through effective enterprise integration.
• Evaluate tools, frameworks, accelerators, and patterns that improve integration capability and delivery effectiveness.
• Drive initiatives to improve system connectivity, data exchange, and platform reuse across the technology landscape.
• Ensure integration solutions comply with security, regulatory, operational resilience, and technology risk requirements.
• Promote observability, monitoring, supportability, and resilience as core design principles.
• Support governance, audit, compliance, and control activities related to integration solutions.
• Identify and address integration-related risks, technical debt, and architecture concerns.

Skills

Enterprise integration leadership

API-led connectivity

Event-driven architectures

Microservices

Stakeholder management

Cloud integration

Architecture patterns

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline

Job description

The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Singapore Branch) seeks a seasoned Enterprise Integration Lead to guide large-scale integration programs across diverse applications and platforms. You will shape strategies for API-led connectivity, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native architectures while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.

Applicants should bring 15+ years in software engineering or integration delivery, strong leadership, and