At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design of system integrations and ensure secure connectivity across technology platforms.
- Company: Public Sector organisation with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid work model, and potential contract extensions.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for professional growth and collaboration with diverse teams.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in public sector tech while working with cutting-edge integration solutions.
- Qualifications: Experience as an Integration Architect and strong knowledge of AWS and API management.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation with offices in both Glasgow and Dundee are currently looking to recruit an Integration Architect for an initial 11 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of £600-£700/day inside of IR35 (based on experience).
This is a hybrid role with 2 days per week required onsite in either Glasgow or Dundee.
The Role
- Lead the design and assurance of system-to system integrations, ensuring consistent, reusable and secure connectivity across the technology estate.
- Define, document and maintain integration architecture standards, patterns and reference models, with a particular focus on API-led and event-driven integration.
- Design and assure integrations deployed within AWS and Boomi, ensuring effective use of cloud-native services and delivering robust API management, messaging, orchestration and security requirements for resilience.
- Define and govern API connectivity models, including internal and external, 3rd-party integrations whilst ensuring appropriate versioning, documentation and lifecycle management.
- Ensure integrations meet non-functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency in line with public sector standards.
- Provide architectural assurance and challenge for integration designs presented through formal governance and review processes.
- Work collaboratively with Technical Architects, delivery teams, platform teams, security specialists and external suppliers to deliver agreed integration architectures.
- Support delivery teams during build and implementation phases by providing hands-on architectural guidance and resolving complex integration issues.
Demonstrable Experience of
- Proven experience operating as an Integration Architect or equivalent specialist architecture role within a large and complex organisation.
- Extensive experience designing, implementing, governing and supporting enterprise integration solutions using Boomi, including API Management, Integration, Master Data Management and Event Streams capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of application architecture and enterprise application landscapes, including Saa S, COTS and bespoke applications.
- Demonstrable experience defining integration standards, reference architectures, design principles and technical roadmaps.
- Experience leading architectural governance activities and providing technical assurance through Architecture Review Boards or equivalent governance forums.
- Proven ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders, suppliers, delivery teams and executive audiences, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
- Experience working within Agile and multidisciplinary delivery environments.
- Experience working in large public sector organisations with an understanding of government digital service standards and governance processes.
- Expert knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture, with practical experience of integration and API services including:
- API Gateway
- Lambda
- Event Bridge
- SNS/SQS
- Step Functions
- ECS/EKS
- IAM
- Cloud Watch
- VPC networking and security controls
- Demonstrable experience defining and governing API strategies, including:
- REST APIs
- Event-driven APIs
- API lifecycle management
- Security standards
- Versioning and governance models
- Strong understanding of integration architecture patterns and their appropriate application, including:
- Point-to-point integration
- Hub-and-spoke
- Event-driven architecture
- Publish-subscribe
- Microservices integration
- Data integration and synchronisation patterns
- Hybrid cloud integration
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Integration Architect employer: ASA Recruitment
As a leading Public Sector organisation in Glasgow, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and inclusive work culture that empowers our employees to thrive. With a strong focus on professional development, we offer numerous growth opportunities and support for continuous learning, ensuring that our Power BI Developers can enhance their skills while contributing to meaningful projects that impact the community. Join us to be part of a dynamic Agile team where your expertise will be valued, and your contributions will make a real difference.
