Senior Integration Engineer

Posted 11 days 12 hours ago by Jobtailor

Permanent
Full Time
Other
Gloucestershire, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS153
Job Description
Overview
  • Engage closely with business stakeholders and cross functional technical teams to understand current and future integration needs
  • Help define and shape forward looking integration and API patterns that scale across the organisation
  • Translate business objectives into pragmatic integrations and data solutions, ensuring delivery is value led rather than purely technology driven
  • Influence integration architecture decisions by balancing strategic direction, delivery feasibility, and measurable business outcomes
  • Act as a trusted technical partner to the business, clearly articulating trade offs, benefits, and opportunities related to integration approaches
  • Lead the design and implementation of cloud native integration solutions using modern AWS services and patterns
  • Build and maintain secure, scalable, and reusable APIs that expose core business and data capabilities
  • Apply API first and contract driven design principles to support long term reusability and governance
  • Implement synchronous, asynchronous, and event driven integration patterns as appropriate
  • Own and lead the engineering delivery of core data hubs and integration led data pipelines
  • Design and implement reliable, high quality data pipelines aligned with HL's SDLC and architectural principles
  • Collaborate with the Data Platform team to ensure solutions align with AWS and Snowflake standards
  • Contribute to the consolidation and distribution of key data domains into reusable data products
  • Design and implement automated testing strategies across integrations, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Drive towards a gold standard, fully automated testing suite, including unit, integration, data quality, and contract testing
  • Embed build, test, and deployment processes into CI/CD pipelines using DevOps best practices
  • Ensure solutions are observable and production ready through logging, monitoring, alerting, and resilience patterns
  • Work across integration, data, and platform teams to enable consistent engineering patterns and standards
  • Support HL's transformation programmes by leading solutions for reliable, real time, and batch data movement
  • Influence integration and data engineering best practices across the team
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers where required
Qualifications
  • Strong experience designing and delivering solutions on AWS, including services such as API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC networking concepts
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, environment promotion and configuration management, secure, automated deployments
  • Hands on experience building APIs and integration services using TypeScript
  • Strong understanding of API first, RESTful, and event driven architectures
  • Experience with schema versioning, contract testing, and backward compatibility strategies
  • Experience building and operating data pipelines on cloud data platforms
  • Strong working knowledge of dbt for data transformations, testing, and documentation
  • Familiarity with Snowflake data modelling, optimisation, and cost aware design
  • Understanding of data quality, lineage, and observability concepts
  • CI/CD pipeline implementation for applications, infrastructure, and data workloads
  • Strong focus on test automation and engineering quality
  • Ability to operate production systems, including incident support and root cause analysis
  • Comfortable working across integration, data, and platform teams
  • Able to influence architecture and engineering standards
  • Willing to mentor and support less experienced engineers
  • Pragmatic, delivery focused mindset with strong ownership of outcomes