Technology Architect - Integration

Job Title

Technology Architect - Integration

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

The broad scope of responsibility of this role requires a solid experience and understanding of information strategy, patterns, designs, and a principle driven approach to transformational challenges and opportunities. As the Integration Architecture SME you will:

• Define and evangelise the integration architecture vision, strategy, patterns and blueprints.
• Provide guidance and governance on integration design and evolution.
• Integration Subject Matter Expert who can articulate the capabilities of IG integration technologies and provide close support to engineering teams in design & implementation, with a particular focus on particular asynchronous messaging & Kafka
• Maintain IG relationship with technology vendors and implementation partners including monitoring of their strategy, product, and roadmaps.
• Research the technology landscape, analyse the impact on IG technology and recommend new technologies where appropriate.
• Participate in technology governance and modernisation processes to ensure technology fitness through the full lifecycle.
• Actively participate with the architecture and engineering communities to provide thought leadership, coaching and mentoring to build a community around integration best practice.

Collaborate with and influence engineering teams to adopt appropriate integration patterns and standards to deliver a consistent integration architecture.

Person specification

• An excellent collaborator who can provide thought leadership and design experience to architecture and engineering teams to support integration design realisation and evolution of the strategy.
• A proactive and creative thinker who provides a clear vision to inspire and engage teams to deliver excellence.
• Demonstrates sound judgement to balance pace, risk, and business value to reach informed, rigorous, and actionable decisions.
• Possess excellent written and verbal presentation skills, ability to communicate at all levels.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with key stakeholders based on professional credibility, excellent communication, and engagement.
• Good facilitator, draws out problems, involving and gaining commitment from the relevant stakeholders with credibility and gravitas to establish trust, gaining consensus and buy-in.
• Politically aware, able to facilitate outcomes where priorities and personalities are in conflict.

A confident self-starter

Background experience

• 15+ years of IT delivery experience.
• 7+ years of experience in an integration architecture role, ideally gained in Financial Services.
• Deep understanding of synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Demonstrable experience using a wide variety of integration technologies, primarily messaging (Kafka, Confluent products, MQ, AMQ, Rabbit MQ, Red Panda)
• Good understanding of Messaging best practice & API Gateway design / topology / implementation
• Good understanding of API best practice & API Gateway design / topology / implementation
• Experience of API management technologies such as Kong or Apogee.

Experience of AWS and GCP cloud integration technologies.

Mobility

• Possible occasional travel between IG offices in Bangalore and London to meet with team members and stakeholders.

IG operates a hybrid working policy

Number of openings

1