Integration Specialist

Notice Period : Immediate joiners

Experiences : 8-15 Years

Location : Hyderabad

## 1. Role Overview

As the Senior Integration Specialist , you will be the lead architect and engineer responsible for connecting our next-generation digital asset platform to the global financial ecosystem. You will own the strategy and execution for integrating a complex landscape of third-party systems, including institutional custody providers (Fireblocks), core banking systems (Temenos), payment rails (SWIFT, SEPA, Circle), and market data providers (Kaiko).

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for a master of systems integration. You are not just consuming APIs; you are designing the very patterns, security protocols, and resilience frameworks that allow our platform to communicate safely and reliably with the outside world. You will be the organization's foremost expert on integrating disparate, often legacy, financial systems and modern crypto-native APIs, ensuring that data flows securely and without failure.

## 2. Key Responsibilities

- **Architect the Enterprise Integration Strategy:**

- Design and own the canonical integration patterns and best practices for the entire organisation, covering API consumption, authentication, security, error handling, and monitoring.

- Define the architecture for building robust, reusable, and fault-tolerant integration adapters as microservices.

- **Lead Critical Integration Projects:**

- Take hands-on ownership of the most complex and mission-critical integration efforts, such as the deep integration with the Fireblocks custody platform, the connection to the Temenos core banking ledger, and the build-out of our multi-rail payment gateways.

- **Act as Primary Technical Liaison:**

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for all external partners and vendors, from initial API discovery and evaluation to managing ongoing technical relationships.

- **Ensure Security and Reliability:**

- Architect and implement ironclad security for all integrations, including the management of API keys, credentials, and mTLS.

- Design and build robust resiliency patterns (e.g., retries, circuit breakers, dead-letter queues) to handle failures from external systems gracefully.

- **Mentor and Guide:**

- Provide expert guidance and mentorship to other backend developers across the organization on how to build secure and reliable integrations.

- Conduct design and code reviews for all integration-related work.

## 3. Required Qualifications

### **Must-Have:**

- **Professional Experience:** 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a minimum of 8-10 years focused specifically on complex, backend systems integration in an enterprise environment.

- **Financial Integration Mastery:** Deep, proven experience integrating with core financial systems. This must include hands-on experience with at least two of the following:

- **Payment Rails** (SWIFT, SEPA, FedWire, or card networks)

- **Core Banking Platforms** (Temenos, Finastra, Fiserv, or similar)

- **Institutional Trading or Custody Systems**

- **Expertise in API Protocols:** Mastery of various API technologies and protocols beyond just REST, including WebSocket, FIX, and message-based integrations.

- **Architectural Leadership:** A demonstrable track record of designing integration architectures and patterns for large-scale systems.

- **Strong Backend Proficiency:** Expert-level programming skills in a modern backend language such as **Go**, **C#**, or **Python**.

- **Security-First Mindset:** Deep expertise in API security patterns, authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth 2.0, mTLS), and secure credential management.

### **Nice-to-Have (Highly Desirable):**

- **Crypto-Native Integration Experience:** Direct, hands-on experience integrating with digital asset custody platforms (especially **Fireblocks**), stablecoin issuers (**Circle**), or blockchain data providers.

- **Integration Platforms:** Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns and platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Apache Camel), even if you prefer building custom services.

- **Cloud-Native Experience:** Experience building integration services in a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based environment.