Integration Architect

The Role

Working closely with architects, engineering teams, delivery partners, and third-party vendors, you'll provide technical leadership across integration design, governance, testing, deployment, and operational transition.

You'll be responsible for ensuring secure, scalable, and supportable integrations between the new ERP platform and wider business systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Define integration strategy, target architecture, principles, and standards.
• Design and govern API, messaging, event-driven, batch, and data integration patterns.
• Lead integration requirements and design workshops with technical and business stakeholders.
• Review and assure integration designs, specifications, and data flows.
• Provide architecture oversight across vendors, systems integrators, and engineering teams.
• Support delivery teams through build, testing, deployment, and service transition.
• Manage architecture risks, dependencies, non-functional requirements, and technical debt.
• Contribute to cutover planning, monitoring strategy, and operational readiness.

Required Experience

• Proven experience as an Integration Architect within large-scale ERP or enterprise transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration architecture, APIs, middleware, messaging, and event-driven systems.
• Hands-on experience with technologies such as:
• Azure Service Bus or RabbitMQ
• Apache Kafka
• API-led integration architectures
• Cloud, SaaS, and on-premise integrations
• Experience governing architecture delivered by third-party suppliers and implementation partners.
• Strong understanding of security, resilience, monitoring, scalability, and supportability.
• Experience working within architecture governance and Design Authority processes.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Experience

• ERP implementation experience.
• Boomi, Azure Integration Services, or similar integration platforms.
• Experience supporting integration testing, cut-over, and go-live activities.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or enterprise reporting ecosystems.

What We're Looking For

• Technically credible and pragmatic.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Able to challenge designs and assumptions constructively.
• Delivery-focused with a hands-on approach to architecture governance.
• Comfortable operating within a fast-paced transformation programme.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a leading role in a high-profile transformation programme, shaping enterprise integrations that will underpin a modern technology landscape for years to come.