Lead Integration Engineer

Who you are

• API and integration development, including the design and implementation of robust integration services
• Event-driven architectures, including event publication, consumption and asynchronous communication patterns
• System integration design, with an understanding of scalable, resilient and loosely coupled architectures
• API management, interface contracts, schemas and service interoperability
• Integration patterns, messaging and distributed systems
• Operational support, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution
• Designing effective error handling, retry and replay mechanisms
• Working across complex technology estates with multiple source and consuming systems
• Software engineering principles, including clean code, testing, version control and CI/CD
• Technical documentation and communicating complex integration concepts to a range of stakeholders

What the job involves

• We are looking for an experienced Lead Integration Engineer to take a leading role in designing, delivering and supporting robust integration solutions across our technology estate
• The role will be responsible for enabling seamless and reliable interaction between source systems, the Accounts platform and downstream consumers
• You will provide technical leadership across integration design and delivery, establish resilient integration patterns, and help ensure that information is exchanged securely, consistently and reliably across multiple platforms and teams
• The successful candidate will combine strong technical integration expertise with the ability to influence and collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams and other stakeholders
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient and maintainable system integrations
• Define and promote integration patterns, standards and best practices across the technology estate
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to other integration engineers and delivery teams
• Design and support API-led and event-driven integration architectures
• Develop and maintain APIs, interfaces and integration services connecting source systems, the Accounts platform and downstream consumers
• Own and govern schemas, interface contracts and integration specifications, ensuring consistency and interoperability
• Design and implement event publication and consumption mechanisms
• Ensure integrations are designed with appropriate resilience, scalability, security, observability and performance in mind
• Establish effective approaches to error handling, retry, replay, monitoring and operational recovery
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex integration issues across multiple systems and teams
• Work closely with architects, developers, product owners and technical stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into effective integration solutions
• Contribute to technical strategy, architectural decisions and the continuous improvement of the organisation's integration capability
• Support knowledge sharing, technical mentoring and the development of engineering standards and practices