Integration Architect

Socket.dev; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev seeks an experienced integration architect to lead end-to-end solutions across Big Data platforms, data-driven web apps, and enterprise API management. You will partner with architects, developers, and platform teams to design reliable, scalable integrations linking IoT sources, analytics platforms, and front-end experiences.

The role emphasizes integration design, API governance, event-driven systems, and security/observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in integration development/architecture with hands-on depth.
• Experience with REST APIs and web services.
• Kafka/Flink or similar messaging platforms.
• Experience with API gateways/management (Apigee preferred).
• Microservices development (Java/Spring Boot, Go, Python, or Node.js).
• Strong understanding of integration patterns (sync/async, retries, DLQs).
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and IaC/CI/CD tooling.
• Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and documentation skills.
• Exposure to GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets; observability stacks.
• API security/identity and policy enforcement; aware of DDD and data mesh.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement integration solutions across IoT, analytics, and web platforms.
• Apply patterns to ensure resilient, scalable integrations and APIs.
• Build reusable integration modules and connectors (Kafka, gRPC, GraphQL, API gateways).
• Architect backend layers powering data-driven web interfaces with governed data flow.
• Design streaming and batch pipelines; optimize event contracts with product/data teams.
• Support and scale Apigee adoption; configure proxies, security, monitoring.
• Promote event-driven architecture and integrate with microservices.
• Develop producers/consumers and stream apps using Kafka; manage schemas.
• Embed security by design; implement observability and CI/CD enhancements.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and troubleshooting; mentor teams.

Skills

Integration design & architecture

REST APIs

Kafka/Flink

Java/Spring Boot

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

DDD & data mesh

API security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Apigee API gateways

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GraphQL

Job description

Position Summary:

Drive end-to-end integration solutions across Big Data platforms, data-driven web applications, and enterprise API management. Partner with architects, developers, and platform teams to design and implement reliable, scalable, and secure integrations that connect IoT/data sources, analytics platforms, and front-end experiences.

Major Responsibilities:

Integration Design & Development

• Design and implement integration solutions using REST APIs, messaging, and event streams to connect disparate IoT/data sources with analytics and Big Data platforms.
• Apply standard patterns (request/response, pub/sub, async messaging, orchestration, choreography) to ensure resilient and scalable integrations.
• Build and maintain reusable integration modules, connectors, and utilities using technologies such as Kafka, gRPC, GraphQL, and API gateways.

Big Data & Web UI Integration

• Architect backend integration layers that power data-driven web interfaces, ensuring seamless, governed data flow between UI components and Big Data systems.
• Design streaming and batch data pipelines; optimize schemas, topics, and event contracts in partnership with product and data architecture teams.

Enterprise API Management (Apigee) & API Enablement

• Support and scale enterprise Apigee adoption—configure proxies, policies, caching, quotas, security, and monitoring for high-throughput workloads.
• Establish and champion API design guidelines and governance; drive API performance, observability, and lifecycle management across teams.

Event-Driven & Asynchronous Systems

• Develop producers/consumers and stream-processing apps using Kafka (or similar), including schema registry usage, topic design, and consumer group strategies.
• Promote event-driven architecture (EDA) practices and integrate EDA with microservices and analytical use cases.

Quality, Security & Operational Excellence

• Embed security by design (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS), secrets management, and zero-trust principles into integration components.
• Implement observability (structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics); contribute to CI/CD pipelines for automated tests, security checks, and deployments.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, integration testing, and performance tuning; provide Tier-3 troubleshooting support.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Translate target architecture and reference models into detailed technical designs and roadmaps.
• Collaborate across cloud and on-prem environments; align with enterprise standards and data governance.
• Mentor developers and help uplift integration practices across product teams.

Other projects and tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in integration development/architecture with strong hands-on depth.
• Proven experience with:
• REST APIs (JSON/XML) and web services architecture.
• Kafka/Flink (or comparable messaging/event platforms).
• API gateways/management (Apigee strongly preferred; Kong, MuleSoft, etc. a plus).
• Microservices development (Java/Spring Boot, Go, Python, or Node.js).
• Solid grasp of integration patterns and best practices (sync/async, resilience, idempotency, back‑pressure, retries, DLQs).
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, familiarity with Kubernetes).
• Cloud platform familiarity (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, etc.) and IaC-aware delivery.
• Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and documentation skills.
• Exposure to GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets.
• Experience with schema registries and event contract management.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (ELK/OpenSearch, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• API security/identity (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS) and policy enforcement.
• Understanding of domain-driven design (DDD) and data mesh concepts.
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer