Senior Integration Architect: API-Driven, Cloud-Native

John Hancock; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

John Hancock is seeking a Senior Integration Architect to lead strategy, standards and governance for secure, scalable, and reusable integration across the US Segment. The role shapes APIs, services, messaging, streaming and batch integration while guiding delivery teams toward cloud-aligned solutions.

Based in a hybrid environment (3 days in office, 2 from home) with Toronto or Boston locations, you will build reusable assets, steer critical design decisions and minimize technical debt while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade integration solutions.
• Familiarity with one or more enterprise integration platforms or services (MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, ESB, IICS, ADF).
• Progressive experience in integration, solution, or domain architecture with reusable patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Integration Domain strategy, standards, guardrails, reference architectures and target-state patterns.
• Create and maintain multi-year integration roadmaps aligned with strategy and modernization priorities.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate priorities into executable integration capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging integration technologies and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Promote API-first, event-driven, cloud-native, secure-by-design integration approaches.
• Design enterprise-grade integration across APIs, events, real-time and batch integration, hybrid/multi-cloud patterns.
• Create and maintain integration inventories, reference architectures, and governance artifacts.
• Review designs and guide teams, documenting decisions and remediation actions.
• Own architecture lifecycle, debt remediation priorities and investment roadmaps.

Skills

Architectural leadership

API architecture

Cloud and hybrid integration

Stakeholder communication

Security patterns

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Info Systems

Tools

MuleSoft

Azure Integration Services

Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

Informatica IICS

Azure Data Factory

Job description

John Hancock is seeking a Senior Integration Architect to lead strategy, standards and governance for secure, scalable, and reusable integration across the US Segment. The role shapes APIs, services, messaging, streaming and batch integration while guiding delivery teams toward cloud-aligned solutions.

Based in a hybrid environment (3 days in office, 2 from home) with Toronto or Boston locations, you will build reusable assets, steer critical design decisions and minimize technical debt while