Integration Architect

Job role: Integration Architect
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months

Role Overview

The Integration Architect defines, designs, and governs enterprise integration architecture standards across AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and on-prem systems. This consultant creates scalable integration blueprints, reusable patterns, and secure connectivity frameworks that ensure interoperability, reliability, and domain-aligned data exchange. The role partners closely with domain teams, platform engineering, API management teams, and enterprise architecture to accelerate delivery while maintaining architectural integrity.

Key Responsibilities

Integration Standards & Governance

• Define and maintain enterprise standards for API design, event schemas, messaging patterns, and integration of contracts.
• Establish integration governance across AWS, Azure, MS Fabric, and on-prem systems.
• Define patterns for ADS (Authorized Data Sources) alignment, data contracts, schema evolution, and anchor key management.
• Enforce adherence to enterprise security principles, including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, TLS, Zero Trust patterns.

Blueprints & Reference Architecture

• Build and maintain unified enterprise integration architecture blueprints spanning cloud, Fabric, and on prem connectivity.
• Create domain specific and cross domain integration flow maps, canonical API patterns, and event driven reference architectures.
• Align AWS, Azure, MS Fabric, and on-prem patterns under Unified Architecture.

Reusable Patterns & Engineering Enablement

• Develop reusable integration patterns for:
  • AWS: API Gateway, Event Bridge, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, Kinesis, AWS Batch, AWS ECR, AWS ECS Fargate.
  • Azure: APIM, Functions, Service Bus, Azure Data Factory (all IR types), Azure Synapse Pipelines, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Batch, Azure Data Explorer ingestion.
  • MS Fabric: Data Factory pipelines, Lakehouse ingestion interfaces, Fabric Data Pipelines, Notebook-based ETL, Warehouse ingestion.
  • On prem: MFT, MQ, legacy services.
• Provide templates for API contracts, event schemas, integration error handling, observability hooks, and resiliency patterns.

Metadata, ADS, & Anchor Key Integration

• Define integration patterns incorporating ADS rules, domain ownership, and anchor key management for interoperability.
• Ensure all integration patterns embed security, observability, lineage awareness, and operational resiliency.
• Collaborate with data governance to ensure consistent entity resolution and cross?domain identifier mapping.

Domain Engagement & Architecture Review

• Guide domain teams in implementing target state integration architectures.
• Lead or participate in architecture reviews for API designs, event models, platform integrations, and connectivity.
• Recommend modernization opportunities to retire from legacy integration mechanisms and adopt event-driven/API?first models.

Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• 8-12+ years in integration architecture, API engineering, event-driven design, or hybrid integration.
• Strong hands-on expertise across:
  • AWS: API Gateway, Event Bridge, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, Kinesis, AWS Batch, AWS ECR, AWS ECS Fargate.
  • Azure: APIM, Functions, Service Bus, Azure Data Factory (all IR types), Azure Synapse Pipelines, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Batch, Azure Data Explorer ingestion.
  • MS Fabric: Data Factory pipelines, Lakehouse ingestion interfaces, Fabric Data Pipelines, Notebook-based ETL, Warehouse ingestion.
  • RDBMS: SQL, Oracle, DB2, RDS, etc.
  • On prem: MQ, MFT, REST/SOAP services.
• Understanding of ADS, anchor key management, data/domain contracts, lineage aware integration.
• Experience designing event driven, API first, batch, and hybrid integration architectures.