INTEGRATION ARCHITECT

🚨 WE’RE HIRING | INTEGRATION ARCHITECT 🚨

📍 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
💼 Experience: 10+ Years
📌 Employment Type: Full-Time

🔹 Role Summary

We are looking for a senior Integration Architect with strong experience in enterprise integration, modern application architecture, and large-scale technology delivery.

The role involves leading integration architecture and technical delivery while working closely with Business, Product, Architecture, Engineering, Security, QA, and Platform teams.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end integration architecture and technical delivery across complex enterprise programmes.
• Design and govern API-first, Microservices, Event-Driven, and Distributed Architectures.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable integration solutions.
• Define APIs, interfaces, data flows, integration patterns, dependencies, and technical specifications.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business stakeholders, Architects, Engineering, Security, Platform, UX, and QA teams.
• Lead integration design reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Manage technical risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and integration constraints.
• Support DevSecOps, CI/CD, testing, release, implementation, hypercare, and stabilisation.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, scalability, performance, resilience, and operational stability.
• Provide technical governance, stakeholder communication, reporting, and escalation management.
• Coordinate effectively with multi-vendor and partner teams to ensure successful integration delivery.

🎯 Required Skills & Experience

✅ 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Integration Architecture, or Enterprise Technology Delivery
✅ Strong experience in Enterprise Integration Architecture
✅ Cloud-Native & Distributed Systems
✅ API-First Architecture & Microservices
✅ Event-Driven Architecture
✅ Enterprise Application Integration & Middleware
✅ REST/SOAP APIs & Messaging
✅ Data & System Integration Patterns
✅ DevSecOps & CI/CD
✅ Cloud Technologies
✅ Agile / SAFe / Hybrid Delivery Models
✅ Secure Software Development & Non-Functional Requirements
✅ Experience with large-scale or mission-critical enterprise platforms
✅ Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management skills
✅ Architecture, Cloud, or Agile/Scrum certification is an advantage