Integration Architect

Integration Architect, APIs, Azure, .NET/C#, REST, event-driven architecture, OAuth2, Azure DevOps, CI/CD **Tō kamupene hou | Your new company** You'll be joining a large, complex organisation based in Wellington with a substantial digital environment supporting a wide range of business services and users. Technology plays an important role across the organisation, with a focus on building secure, reliable and scalable solutions while continuing to modernise its digital landscape. **Tō tūranga hou | Your new role** We're looking for an experienced Integration Architect to provide technical leadership across the organisation's integration landscape. Rather than focusing purely on individual projects, you'll take a broader architectural view, helping determine how applications and platforms should communicate and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and sustainable. You'll work closely with architecture, engineering and delivery teams, providing direction on complex integration challenges and helping establish consistent approaches across the technology environment. **Your role will include:** * Shaping the future direction of enterprise integration architecture. * Developing practical standards and reusable patterns for APIs and integrations. * Providing architectural guidance and assurance across technology initiatives. * Leading the design approach for complex integrations spanning multiple systems and platforms. * Supporting API-led, event-driven, synchronous and asynchronous integration approaches. * Reviewing proposed solutions with consideration for security, resilience, performance and maintainability. * Helping teams make appropriate technical decisions where competing architectural and delivery priorities exist. * Encouraging greater reuse of APIs, schemas, events and existing integration services. * Identifying architectural risks, dependencies and areas of avoidable technical complexity. * Providing technical guidance to senior engineers and technical leads. * Contributing to the future direction of integration platforms and technologies. **Ngā uara me ngā pūkenga e angitu ai koe | What you'll need to succeed** We're looking for someone who has operated at a senior technical or architecture level and understands integration beyond individual application or development projects. **You'll ideally have experience across:** * Enterprise integration architecture and solution design * Enterprise API design and delivery * RESTful APIs, JSON and XML * API-led and event-driven architecture * Synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns * Integration standards, reusable patterns and reference architectures * .NET / .NET Framework and C# * JavaScript, Node.js and PowerShell * SQL and NoSQL technologies, including exposure to Cosmos DB * CI/CD and Azure DevOps * Git/GitHub and Postman * API and integration security concepts including OAuth2 and OpenID Connect * Designing solutions around availability, resilience, performance and fault tolerance. **N** **gā hua ka whiwhi i a koe | What you'll get in return** **You'll be stepping into a position with the opportunity to:** * Influence integration architecture across a complex enterprise environment. * Work across a broad range of systems, applications and technologies. * Shape architectural standards rather than simply working within existing ones. * Provide technical leadership across significant integration initiatives. * Help modernise and mature the organisation's overall approach to integration. **Me aha koe ināianei | What you need to do now** If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or contact me directly on Isaac.Flower@hays.net.nz If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. **Desired Skills and Experience** Enterprise integration architecture and solution design Enterprise API design and delivery RESTful APIs, JSON and XML API-led and event-driven architecture Synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns Integration standards, reusable patterns and reference architectures .NET / .NET Framework and C# JavaScript, Node.js and PowerShell SQL and NoSQL technologies, including exposure to Cosmos DB CI/CD and Azure DevOps Git/GitHub and Postman API and integration security concepts including OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Designing solutions around availability, resilience, performance and fault tolerance.