Overview
The Integration Architect will play a critical role in supporting a high-profile replatforming programme within a leading financial services organization undergoing significant technological transformation. This position involves collaborating closely with senior technology stakeholders and various teams to define the integration strategy and architecture between legacy and target platforms, while ensuring practical implementation and adherence to architectural standards.
Responsibilities
- Define the integration architecture and approach for a data-centric workstream.
- Lead stakeholder engagement across architecture, engineering, and delivery teams.
- Design APIs, integration patterns, messaging, events, and system-to-system flows.
- Map end-to-end system and data flows, including interfaces and dependencies.
- Define the data migration approach, including mapping and validation.
- Support legacy-to-target transition throughout the replatforming process.
- Translate architecture into practical, implementable technical designs.
- Define reusable patterns covering security, resilience, and error handling.
Requirements
- Strong Integration, Solution, or Technical Architecture experience in large-scale transformation programmes.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
- Deep understanding of APIs, messaging, and event-driven integration.
- Experience designing complex system and data flows.
- Proficient in data integration and migration between legacy and modern platforms.
- Hands-on capability to transition from high-level architecture to detailed technical design.
- Ability to bridge enterprise architecture with engineering delivery.
- Financial services or regulated-industry experience is beneficial.