Solution Architect-Java

Summary

Our client a well-established financial institution is seeking an Integration Architect to lead its enterprise integration and API strategy and drive digital transformation. This role owns the design implementation and governance of the enterprise integration ecosystem including APIs event-driven architectures and platform-based integrations to enable seamless connectivity across banking services enhance customer experiences and accelerate innovation.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise integration and API strategy and roadmaps aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and evolve the Integration / API Center of Excellence to drive standardization governance and best practices across the organization.
• Establish and maintain enterprise integration patterns reference architectures and reusable frameworks to drive modernization efforts.
• Evolve API and integration standards and governance frameworks in alignment with the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Champion design-first and contract-first API development methodologies and mentor teams on modern integration patterns.
• Implement monitoring observability analytics and lifecycle management processes across APIs and integration platforms.
• Develop and govern asynchronous and event-driven integration patterns including event schema standards and streaming architectures.
• Lead adoption and optimization of API management platforms and developer enablement capabilities API portals discovery self-service.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to design and implement scalable integration solutions aligned with enterprise architecture strategy.
• Provide thought leadership mentorship and technical guidance to architects and engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of experience in software development and/or architecture.
• Strong experience with RESTful APIs microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms particularly AWS.
• Deep understanding of integration patterns API management and distributed systems design.
• Proven experience implementing and governing event-driven architecture and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for integration platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred) and cloud-native deployment models.
• Strong understanding of API security including OAuth JWT and related best practices.
• Experience with API testing validation and OpenAPI specifications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or contributing to an API / Integration Center of Excellence.
• Experience defining enterprise API maturity models or integration frameworks.
• Experience with API management platforms (e.g. MuleSoft or similar).
• Experience with developer portals and improving API discoverability and developer experience.
• Knowledge of banking systems payments or financial services technology.
• Experience integrating identity and access management solutions (OAuth OIDC SAML).
• Familiarity with containerization service mesh and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide adoption of integration standards.

What Success Looks Like

• A well-defined and adopted enterprise integration strategy and roadmap.
• Standardized integration patterns and improved delivery velocity across teams.
• Increased API reuse discoverability and governance maturity.

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