Solutions Architect - Integration

About This Role

Solution Architect - Integration Globant — Riyadh, KSA Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (on-site). Alternative locations: Jordan, Lebanon, UAE, Egypt — with regular travel to Riyadh required.

Role Summary This role is responsible for leading the architecture of integration and API layers across the platform. The architect defines standards for APIs, integration patterns, event-driven messaging, and third party connectivity. The role requires broad architectural understanding across multiple disciplines alongside deep expertise in integration technologies and API management.

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.