End-2-End Integration Lead/Architect

Key Responsibilities Application Integration Strategy Delivery & Architecture

• Lead the design and implementation of end-to-end integration solutions across enterprise applications.
• Define integration standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Develop scalable APIs, middleware, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance standards.
• Manage integration projects from requirements gathering through deployment and support.
• Coordinate integration between core cloud, on prem, SaaS, and legacy systems.
• Oversee ETL, API, microservices, and middleware implementations and define integration validation and data definition.
• Ensure data consistency, reliability, and performance across systems.
• Drive automation, monitoring, provide guidance on integration technologies and modernization strategies.
• Collaborate with business teams, vendors, architects, and infrastructure teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical integration solutions.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans to leadership.
• Establish integration governance processes and documentation standards.
• Monitor production integrations and resolve critical incidents.
• Ensure integrations meet SLA, security, and compliance requirements.
• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and scalability planning.

Qualifications Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in application integration, middleware, or enterprise architecture and quality engineering.
• 5+ years in in End-to-End technical leadership or lead integration role.
• Strong experience withAPIs (REST/SOAP), Middleware platforms, ETL tools, Microservices architecture, Message queues/event streaming, Cloud integrations
• 3+ years in hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or C#).
• Strong understanding of: Data mapping and data lineage, Authentication/security protocols, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab), DevOps practices and familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Test Management: Strong command of tools like Rally, Jira, Zephyr, TestRail, or ALM.
• Backend & Data: Solid understanding of SQL and API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured).
• Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder, leadership and strategic communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Test Data Management: Govern test data strategies, including data masking, synthetic data creation, and high-volume data validation.
• Cross-system Integration: Ensure seamless quality assurance during end-to-end interactions across upstream and downstream systems, middleware, and third-party APIs.
• Strategy & Governance: Design and own scalable, reusable E2E testing architectures. Manage test data and own end to end release readiness. Define approaches for functional, performance, API, batch processing, and data migration testing.
• Cross functional and Stakeholder collaboration: Align end to end test strategy, Partner withacross business stakeholders, IT, DevOps teams, Product Managers and to ensure software end-to-end testability and compliance.
• Experience with platforms such as: Azure Integration Services, Kafka, Cloud platform (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Enterprise integration architecture, technical leadership, Cross-functional collaboration, Solution design, Analytical thinking, Communication and presentation skills