Integration Architect | 11 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid, Edinburgh| Starting ASAP

Day Rate: £679

About 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.

Essential Skills & Experience:

  • 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 SaaS, 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
    • EventBridge
    • SNS/SQS
    • Step Functions
    • ECS/EKS
    • IAM
    • CloudWatch
    • 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

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.

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