Senior Integration Architect: API, Data & Cloud (Onsite)

NextPath Workforce Solutions; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

NextPath Workforce Solutions is seeking a Principal Integration Architect to join our client’s team in Reading, PA. This onsite, contract-to-hire role focuses on leading integration architecture across platforms and building high-throughput pipelines with Kafka, MQTT, and APigee-driven APIs.

You will drive API management, secure integrations, and data governance across Snowflake and cloud services, collaborating with data and engineering teams to advance product goals.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of significant experience in integration architecture.
• Hands-on Java and Spring Boot in distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating third-party integrations and APIs.
• Experience with API management platforms like Google Apigee.
• Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, JMS, AMQP, MQTT.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud-native patterns.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake data warehousing and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration strategy across third-party platforms and internal systems.
• Define and evolve the integration architecture and roadmap.
• Design and implement high-throughput Kafka pipelines and schemas.
• Develop integrations with real-time IoT devices using MQTT.
• Manage API lifecycle and gateway policies with Apigee.
• Design secure integrations using zero-trust principles and OAuth 2.0.
• Establish data governance and metadata standards across services.
• Collaborate with data teams on Snowflake integration and governance.
• Drive CI/CD and automation for services and APIs.
• Evaluate secure AI/LLM integration into systems.
• Communicate architecture decisions to teams and stakeholders.
• Support operability through observability and resilience planning.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

API design

Distributed systems

MQTT

REST/GraphQL

OAuth 2.0

Zero-trust security

Tools

Google Apigee

Kafka

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

NextPath Workforce Solutions is seeking a Principal Integration Architect to join our client’s team in Reading, PA. This onsite, contract-to-hire role focuses on leading integration architecture across platforms and building high-throughput pipelines with Kafka, MQTT, and APigee-driven APIs.

You will drive API management, secure integrations, and data governance across Snowflake and cloud services, collaborating with data and engineering teams to advance product goals.