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Integration Architect

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Birmingham, GBR
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
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Microsoft AzureAzure API Management (APIM)Enterprise integration architectureREST APIsMicroservicesOAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT and mTLS

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Role overview

Lead the design, governance and modernization of enterprise integration solutions across cloud-native, legacy and external partner environments.

The role focuses strongly on Microsoft Azure and Azure API Management, delivering secure, scalable and resilient integration architectures.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead integration architecture across Azure, on-premises and hybrid environments; produce HLDs, architecture documents and API specifications.
  • Govern enterprise APIs, including standards, lifecycle, Products, subscriptions, throttling, discovery and reuse.
  • Design APIM policies and secure API and hybrid connectivity patterns, including identity, networking and private endpoints.
  • Define non-functional requirements and design REST, microservices, messaging and event-driven integrations.
  • Partner with Platform and DevOps teams on CI/CD, APIOps/GitOps, infrastructure as code, monitoring and observability.
  • Present designs through governance reviews and guide engineering teams in API-first, loosely coupled architecture.

Essential experience

  • 8+ years across software engineering, solution architecture or integration architecture, including significant enterprise design leadership.
  • Strong experience designing distributed, cloud and enterprise integration solutions, with deep hands-on Azure API Management expertise.
  • Experience with APIM networking, private DNS, hub-and-spoke architectures, policies, Products, subscriptions and gateway configuration.
  • Knowledge of REST, microservices, event-driven integration, API security, Azure, Terraform or similar IaC, and Azure DevOps/CI/CD.
  • Experience producing HLDs and presenting architecture through governance processes; strong stakeholder and communication skills.

Desirable skills

  • Experience with Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Event Grid, APIOps/GitOps and Azure observability tools.
  • Knowledge of Azure API Center or similar cataloguing platforms, and emerging AI integration patterns such as MCP or AI Gateway.
  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certifications are desirable.

Benefits

  • Benefits include profit sharing, career development and mentoring, flexible working, pension, private healthcare, life assurance, wellbeing programs, generous leave and educational assistance.

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