Enterprise Integration Architect – PaaS Services
Role Summary
The Enterprise Integration Architect will own the end-to-end integration strategy and architecture across PaaS services—enabling secure, scalable, and observable connectivity among applications, data platforms, and external ecosystems. This role spans API-led integration, event-driven architectures, messaging & streaming, CI/CD enablement, platform governance, and zero-trust security across multi-cloud/hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design
- Define enterprise integration reference architecture covering API, event, and data integration patterns (synchronous/asynchronous, pub/sub, CQRS, Saga/Orchestration/Choreography).
- Architect integration solutions for PaaS services (containers, serverless, managed DBs, messaging, streaming, iPaaS, API gateways) across multi-cloud/hybrid / private-cloud environments.
- Establish canonical data models, integration contracts, and versioning strategies; enforce standards via architecture reviews.
- Drive API-first strategy: REST/GraphQL/gRPC, gateway policies, developer portal, API lifecycle management.
- Lead designs for real-time streaming (Kafka/Confluent), event mesh (NATS/RabbitMQ), and integration pipelines (ETL/ELT) for data platforms.
Security, Compliance & Governance
- Implement zero-trust integration: mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, token lifecycle, secrets management (e.g., KMS/Key Vault), and policy-as-code.
- Define and enforce data protection, PII handling, encryption (at-rest/in-transit), auditability, and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, HIPAA as applicable).
- Establish API & integration governance: design guides, naming/versioning, discoverability, SLAs/SLOs, and RBAC/ABAC.
Delivery, Enablement & Leadership
- Lead architecture roadmaps, reference implementations, and guardrails; guide solution architects and squads.
- Collaborate with DevOps/SRE on CI/CD, infra-as-code (Terraform), GitOps, and automated policy enforcement.
- Review designs/code for integration quality; steer platform onboarding and developer experience (DX) improvements.
- Partner with Security, Data, and Product teams to align integration capabilities with business outcomes.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10–15+ years in software/integration architecture; 5+ years in cloud-native PaaS.
- Deep expertise in API platforms (Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Kong), iPaaS (MuleSoft/Boomi), and event/streaming (Kafka/Confluent, RabbitMQ).
- Strong in microservices, DDD, event-driven patterns, sagas, orchestration/choreography, state management, and transaction boundaries.
- Hands-on with containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
- Proficient in security: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, secrets mgmt (Key Vault/KMS), policy-as-code (OPA), and cloud-native IAM.
- Infra-as-code & automation (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD/GitOps), CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Jenkins).
- Observability stack: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/ELK-like, distributed tracing.
- Data integration: CDC, event sourcing, ETL/ELT tools, integration with data lakes/warehouses.
- Excellent stakeholder management, documentation, and solution leadership.
Roles and Responsibilities Enterprise Integration Architect – PaaS Services
Role Summary
The Enterprise Integration Architect will own the end-to-end integration strategy and architecture across PaaS services—enabling secure, scalable, and observable connectivity among applications, data platforms, and external ecosystems. This role spans API-led integration, event-driven architectures, messaging & streaming, CI/CD enablement, platform governance, and zero-trust security across multi-cloud/hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design
- Define enterprise integration reference architecture covering API, event, and data integration patterns (synchronous/asynchronous, pub/sub, CQRS, Saga/Orchestration/Choreography).
- Architect integration solutions for PaaS services (containers, serverless, managed DBs, messaging, streaming, iPaaS, API gateways) across multi-cloud/hybrid / private-cloud environments.
- Establish canonical data models, integration contracts, and versioning strategies; enforce standards via architecture reviews.
- Drive API-first strategy: REST/GraphQL/gRPC, gateway policies, developer portal, API lifecycle management.
- Lead designs for real-time streaming (Kafka/Confluent), event mesh (NATS/RabbitMQ), and integration pipelines (ETL/ELT) for data platforms.
Security, Compliance & Governance
- Implement zero-trust integration: mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, token lifecycle, secrets management (e.g., KMS/Key Vault), and policy-as-code.
- Define and enforce data protection, PII handling, encryption (at-rest/in-transit), auditability, and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, HIPAA as applicable).
- Establish API & integration governance: design guides, naming/versioning, discoverability, SLAs/SLOs, and RBAC/ABAC.
Delivery, Enablement & Leadership
- Lead architecture roadmaps, reference implementations, and guardrails; guide solution architects and squads.
- Collaborate with DevOps/SRE on CI/CD, infra-as-code (Terraform), GitOps, and automated policy enforcement.
- Review designs/code for integration quality; steer platform onboarding and developer experience (DX) improvements.
- Partner with Security, Data, and Product teams to align integration capabilities with business outcomes.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10–15+ years in software/integration architecture; 5+ years in cloud-native PaaS.
- Deep expertise in API platforms (Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Kong), iPaaS (MuleSoft/Boomi), and event/streaming (Kafka/Confluent, RabbitMQ).
- Strong in microservices, DDD, event-driven patterns, sagas, orchestration/choreography, state management, and transaction boundaries.
- Hands-on with containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
- Proficient in security: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, secrets mgmt (Key Vault/KMS), policy-as-code (OPA), and cloud-native IAM.
- Infra-as-code & automation (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD/GitOps), CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Jenkins).
- Observability stack: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/ELK-like, distributed tracing.
- Data integration: CDC, event sourcing, ETL/ELT tools, integration with data lakes/warehouses.
- Excellent stakeholder management, documentation, and solution leadership.
