API Integration Solution Architect

Job Description :

Smartedge's Client is looking for an individual to help with their in API Integration Solution Architect _ Contract _ Dublin, Ireland (Remote)

The Integration Solution Architect will define and govern integration solutions across APIs, microservices, message queues, event-driven services, batch interfaces, and secure file-transfer mechanisms.

The role will coordinate integration architecture across customer channels, operational platforms, core banking systems ,The ideal candidate will have led integration architecture for a major banking transformation involving APIs, messaging, event-driven processing, batch flows, file transfers, cloud platforms, and multiple legacy interfaces.

Mandatory Skills and Experience

• Strong integration and solution architecture experience.
• Demonstrable experience across:
• APIs
• Microservices
• Event-driven architecture
• Batch integration
• Secure file transfer
• Strong understanding of synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience designing integrations between modern cloud services and legacy systems.
• Experience with API management, API security, versioning, throttling, and lifecycle governance.
• Strong understanding of message integrity, idempotency, ordering, retries, and error handling.
• Experience defining canonical data models, transformations, orchestration, and service decoupling.
• Knowledge of identity, certificates, transport security, encryption, and secure connectivity.
• Ability to produce detailed integration architecture and interface artefacts.
• Experience coordinating integration dependencies across multiple delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end integration architecture for assigned transformation initiatives.
  • Event streaming
  • Batch interfaces
  • Secure file transfer
• Design and sequence integration flows spanning multiple systems, programmes, and delivery teams.
• Define API contracts, interface specifications, event schemas, and service interactions.
  • Routing
  • Transformation
  • Orchestration
  • Validation
  • Exception management
  • Idempotency
  • Ordering
  • Retries
  • Dead-letter processing
  • Replay and recovery
• Design secure integration between on-premises platforms, cloud environments, third-party systems, and vendor products.
• Define authentication, authorization, encryption, certificate, and secrets-management requirements for interfaces.
• Establish integration observability covering traceability, correlation identifiers, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Work with integration factories and engineering squads to ensure consistent implementation of approved patterns.
• Produce interface inventories, integration diagrams, sequence diagrams, and system-interaction models.
• Define integration transition states where legacy and target platforms must coexist.
• Identify integration dependencies, delivery sequencing requirements, and interface-related risks.
• Present integration designs to architecture governance forums.

Experience/Background

• 7/8 years+ strong solution design experience
• Experience working across customer channels, operational platforms, core systems and enterprise data services
• Have strong integration architecture experience across APIs, microservices, MQ and file-based integrations
• Experience designing solutions spanning both legacy estate and modern cloud-based platforms
• Knowledge of Corporate & Retail FX products would be useful
• Knowledge of Capital Markets business would be useful