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 & KafkaMaintain 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 / implementationGood understanding of API best practice & API Gateway design / topology / implementationExperience 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