Solution Architect - Integration

Globant — Riyadh, KSA

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Solution Architect

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Define integration architecture strategy aligned with organisational goals
• Establish API standards, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility practices
• Design and govern API gateway infrastructure and policies
• Architect event-driven and message-based integration patterns
• Define data flows, transformation logic, and contract standards between systems
• Lead technical design reviews and key architectural decisions for integration
• Design third party service integration approaches and manage external dependencies
• Define error handling, retry, and circuit breaker strategies for integrations
• Ensure security across integration points including authentication, authorisation, and data protection
• Define monitoring, logging, and observability strategies for integration layers
• Mentor engineering teams and support capability development in integration practices
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance
• Produce and maintain integration architecture documentation, system diagrams, and data flow models
• Evaluate integration technologies, middleware, and emerging approaches
• Manage technical debt in integration layers and lead simplification initiatives
• Present architectural decisions to senior stakeholders

Expected Outcomes

• A coherent and consistent API and integration ecosystem
• Improved reliability and observability across integration points
• Reduced complexity through well designed integration patterns and standards
• Adoption of consistent API and integration architecture patterns across teams

Cross Functional Design Leadership

• Facilitate collaborative design sessions across engineering, product, and operations
• Break down complex integration challenges into actionable design approaches
• Support decision making during major incidents or significant integration changes
• Improve cross team understanding of integration impacts, data flows, and system dependencies
• Communication and Influence
• Communicate complex integration and API concepts clearly to technical and non technical audiences
• Produce clear diagrams, documentation, and integration models
• Influence decisions through structured reasoning and architectural clarity
• Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, product, and delivery

Cross Discipline Architectural Competencies

• Understanding of domain driven design principles
• Strong awareness of enterprise integration patterns
• Understanding of essential data architecture concepts
• Awareness of cyber security fundamentals and secure by design practices
• Understanding of DevOps and platform engineering practices
• Ability to define and assess non functional requirements
• Ability to evaluate third party systems and build versus buy decisions
• Ability to balance performance, cost, resilience, and maintainability in designs

Shared Architecture Practice Expectations

• Contribute to architectural standards and reusable patterns
• Participate in architectural governance and review forums
• Support development of technology roadmaps and long term design direction
• Produce clear and consistent architectural artefacts
• Share learning and reusable guidance across teams

Decision Making Authority

• Acts as technical authority for integration and API architecture
• Owns API standards, integration patterns, and gateway policies
• Responsible for long term integration architectural direction
• Makes informed decisions balancing immediate needs and strategic goals

Technical Skills

• Core technologies: Apigee, NodeJS
• Architecture and design: RESTful API design, event-driven architecture, enterprise integration patterns, API gateway design and governance, API versioning and backward compatibility
• Integration: Message queuing and asynchronous processing, third party service integration, data transformation and contract management, orchestration and choreography patterns
• Security and performance: Authentication and authorisation patterns including OAuth and JWT, data encryption and secure data handling, resilience and fault tolerance patterns, rate limiting and throttling
• Competencies: Strong understanding of distributed systems and integration complexity, experience designing API ecosystems at scale, strategic architectural planning, clear and structured communication, mentorship and technical leadership, effective stakeholder engagement.
• This job can be filled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Create with us digital products that people love.
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• We may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process.
• Final compensation offered is based on multiple factors such as the specific role, hiring location, as well as individual skills, experience, and qualifications.
• In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package.
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