Senior Integration Engineer

12-month initial contract with extensions We are seeking an experienced Senior Integration Engineer to join a high-profile technology environment in Abu Dhabi, connecting modern digital products and automation services with complex enterprise platforms. Sitting at the intersection of application engineering and enterprise technology , you will design and build secure, reliable integrations across ERP, HR, Finance, collaboration platforms and custom applications. This is not an ETL-only or middleware administration role . We are looking for an engineer who can design and build production-grade APIs, event flows, messaging patterns and integration services while solving the challenges that come with connecting complex enterprise systems.

What You ll Be Doing:

• Design and implement robust system-to-system integrations across enterprise platforms.
• Build and consume REST, OData, SOAP and enterprise APIs .
• Develop asynchronous integrations using messaging and event-driven architectures .
• Design integration patterns supporting complex and long-running enterprise workflows.
• Define API contracts and integration standards alongside application and platform engineering teams.
• Build transformations between different enterprise data models and establish canonical schemas where appropriate.
• Engineer resilient integrations using retries, timeout handling, idempotency, reconciliation and dead-letter processing .
• Design solutions capable of safely handling partial failures and unavailable downstream systems.
• Implement OAuth2, service identities, certificates and enterprise authentication/authorisation patterns .
• Apply API versioning, lifecycle management and API gateway standards.
• Maintain auditability, traceability and appropriate handling of sensitive information across system boundaries.
• Build logging, monitoring and alerting to ensure integrations are observable and supportable in production.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues spanning multiple enterprise systems.
• Support integration testing, UAT, deployment and production rollout.

Desired Candidate Profile

What We re Looking For You will have 6+ years of experience in enterprise integration or backend engineering , with strong hands-on experience designing and implementing APIs and integration services. You should bring strong knowledge of REST, JSON and HTTP , alongside experience working with SOAP/XML and legacy enterprise integrations . You ll also understand asynchronous messaging and event-driven architecture, including practical experience with error handling, retry strategies, idempotency and production reliability. Hands-on development experience with Java, C#, Python, Go or a comparable backend language is required, alongside experience supporting enterprise integrations in production.

Highly Desirable Experience:

• SAP integration OData, BAPIs, IDocs, RFC and APIs
• SAP BTP Integration Suite / Cloud Integration
• Azure Integration Services
• Azure Service Bus / Event Grid
• Azure API Management
• Apache Kafka
• SAP SuccessFactors integrations
• SAP Ariba integrations
• Microsoft Graph / SharePoint
• Government, financial services or other regulated enterprise environments