Expert Integration Engineer

Purpose:

To design and govern complex enterprise integration solutions, ensuring secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient connectivity between applications, platforms, partners, and external services.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as senior technical authority for enterprise integration across the technology estate.
• Design complex integration architectures, APIs, interfaces, and messaging solutions.
• Define integration standards, patterns, protocols, and engineering practices.
• Lead technical implementation of critical system integrations with partners, schemes, and internal platforms.
• Design synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, and API-based integration solutions.
• Build and govern integrations on the enterprise integration stack (IBM ACE/API Connect, MQ, Kafka).
• Own API lifecycle management, including versioning, gateway policies, and consumer onboarding.
• Ensure integrations meet security, performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
• Apply security controls for partner connectivity, including mTLS, certificate management, encryption, and secure key handling.
• Ensure integrations satisfy regulatory, audit, and change-governance requirements.
• Review integration designs and implementations for architectural compliance.
• Troubleshoot complex integration and production issues across system boundaries.
• Optimize integration performance, reliability, monitoring, error handling, and reconciliation.
• Identify integration risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and recommend improvements.
• Mentor integration engineers and contribute to enterprise integration architecture initiatives.

Requirements QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master's preferred.
• 5+ years in enterprise integration, including senior technical ownership.
• Deep expertise in IBM integration tooling (ACE, API Connect, MQ, DataPower) and event streaming (Kafka).
• Strong grasp of API design, security protocols (OAuth2, mTLS), and message-level security.
• Payments experience with ISO 8583, ISO 20022, or scheme integrations (Good to have)
• Professional Certificates.