Senior Integration Architect

Are you an experiencedIntegration Architectpassionate about designing scalable solutions, modernizing complex systems, and connecting technologies across enterprise environments?
We're looking for aSenior Integration Architectto join an international technology environment, working in ahybrid model.
This opportunity is ideal for someone who combines strong expertise insoftware architecture, microservices, API integration, and event-driven systemswith a collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills.
You'll play a key role in defining integration strategies, modernizing legacy systems, and ensuring that technical solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.
What You'll Be Doing:
Design Integration Architectures:Define and document scalable integration solutions, including logical and physical architectures, data flow diagrams, API contracts, and sequence diagrams.
Drive Architecture Modernization:Analyze existing systems, perform reverse engineering of legacy applications, and identify dependencies, integration flows, and modernization opportunities.
Define Technical Standards:Establish API versioning strategies, standardized data models (JSON Schema, Avro), messaging patterns, and error-handling mechanisms, including retry policies and Dead Letter Queues (DLQ).
Develop Event-Driven Solutions:Design and structure event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, ensuring reliable communication between distributed systems.
Collaborate Across Teams:Work closely with product, engineering, security, and business stakeholders to design solutions that meet both technical and business requirements.
Ensure Security & Governance:Promote architectural best practices, conduct technical design reviews, and ensure compliance with security, privacy, and integration standards.
Improve Observability:Support monitoring and troubleshooting strategies using Datadog, including application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, and log analysis.
Mentor & Share Knowledge:Support engineering teams through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and the adoption of architecture best practices.
What We're Looking For:
Strong experience designingmodular architectures, microservices, and distributed systems.
Solid understanding of software architecture principles, integration patterns, and system design.
Hands-on experience defining and documentingREST APIs using Swagger / OpenAPI Specification.
Proven ability to performreverse engineering of complex legacy systems, identifying dependencies, business rules, and integration flows.
Strong knowledge ofApache Kafka, including topic design, event modeling, and event-driven architecture.
Experience defining API contracts, data models, and integration standards.
Cloud & Observability
Working knowledge ofGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly:
BigQuery:Analytical data processing and querying.
Cloud Storage:Secure object storage and data management.
IAM:Identity, access policies, roles, and permissions.
Experience withDatadogfor monitoring, application performance management (APM), distributed tracing, and log management.
Security & Access Management
Solid understanding of API security and authentication standards, includingOAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and API Keys.
Experience withHashiCorp Vaultfor secrets management, credential protection, and rotation.
Awareness of security, privacy, and governance best practices in enterprise integration environments.
Ways of Working
Experience working in Agile environments, particularlyScrum and Kanban.
Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to architectural decisions.
What Will Make You Stand Out:
Beyond technical expertise, we're looking for someone who genuinely enjoys working with people and making complex technology easier to understand.
Teamwork & Collaboration:A collaborative mindset, empathy, and willingness to support colleagues and share knowledge.
Holistic Thinking:Ability to understand the broader technology ecosystem and anticipate the impact of architectural decisions across interconnected systems.
Communication Skills:Confidence translating business requirements into technical solutions and explaining architectural trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Stakeholder Management:Ability to align expectations, negotiate priorities, and build consensus between product, engineering, and security teams.
Technical Leadership:A constructive approach to architectural discussions, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
Ahybrid working model, combining flexibility with opportunities for face-to-face collaboration.
The opportunity to work in an international, multidisciplinary technology environment.
Involvement in challenging integration and modernization initiatives.
The chance to influenc