Integration Architect in London

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Position Summary

The Integration Architect is an individual contributor within Metrea's Platform Development Capability Area, owning the architecture, development, and support of system interfaces across the organisation's core ERP, Supply Chain, and Maintenance business applications. Drawing on strong .NET, API/SFTP integration, conversion scripting, and SQL development experience, the postholder will design and deliver the interfaces and custom system features that connect Metrea's business-critical platforms.

The role calls for a strong technical background coupled with a solid understanding of business process, and the ability to interact effectively with personnel at all levels of the business. In an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment, there will be a need to adapt and rapidly prioritise to changing business needs in support of the company's commercial and operational objectives. This is a hands-on architecture role. The successful candidate will be expected to design solutions, build integrations, develop custom code and scripts, troubleshoot issues, and engage directly with business stakeholders.

What You'll Do

• Participate in project planning activities, especially as it relates to scoping new system implementation initiatives
• Work closely with project team and end users, in order to gather information specific to interfaces, conversions, and enhancement needs
• Creation of technical specifications
• Table/field level mapping between systems required to develop interfaces and conversion scripts
• Development and support of interfaces (including APIs and SFTP file transfers) between our ERP system and aircraft flight operations, logistics, and maintenance systems, along with integrations with third party solutions
• Development of conversion scripts, when required
• Development of custom code that is scalable and extendable
• Development of frameworks and tools to support integrations and conversions
• Daily monitoring of system interfaces
• Debugging production issues

What You Bring

• Self-motivated; team oriented; responsible, and reliable
• Positive attitude and proactive style. Candidate must have the ability to work in a structured, yet variable environment
• Expertise in interface architecture and development including API development (Rest/JSON and SOAP/XML), and flat file transfers via SFTP
• Experience with integration and ETL frameworks
• Experienced in SQL, including creation for SQL views, stored procedures, and functions
• Experienced in architecting and developing custom solutions
• Ability to create technical specifications and documentation
• Expertise in ERP development; 2-3+ years of hands-on D365 FO development and integration experience is a must, including designing and supporting integrations with enterprise business systems.
• Experience in Power Platform development is a plus
• Microsoft Synapse expertise is a plus
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong experience in implementing packaged and/or custom systems
• Experience in supply chain, maintenance, and project accounting systems, would be a plus
• Strong grasp of systems from 'big picture' integration perspective
• Expertise in MS Office suite. Visio experience would be a plus
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with attention to detail and accuracy
• Must be organized, focused and able to deliver under tight timelines
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills, with the ability to interact with various levels of personnel, including end users, management, and developers
• Microsoft Architecture certification or other architecture certification would be a plus

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
• Electric Car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrificed pension scheme
• Free lunch on office days
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• 30 days annual PTO plus b/h
• Bonus Scheme
• Personal development opportunities

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

The employee will have the legal right to work in the UK and will be able to produce right to work documentation. You may be required to obtain security clearance for this role. Details of this can be discussed in the interview process.

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea Management Limited (MAM) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Work Environment

Office based, London 3 days per week

Travel

Ability and willingness to undertake international travel, including regular trips to Australia, Greece, and the United States, as required.

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.