Enterprise Integration Architect

Job description

Your future responsibilities:

- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and roadmaps aligned with the bank's business strategy

- Own and evolve the bank’s enterprise integration architecture and integration strategy, ensuring a coherent approach across APIs, events, messaging, batch/file integration, and legacy integration patterns

- Define the target architecture and roadmap for the enterprise integration layer, including API Management, Event Streaming, Integration/iPaaS capabilities, service connectivity, and integration with legacy and core banking platforms

- Drive development of the enterprise API and integration ecosystem, ensuring reusable, secure, observable, and well-governed integration capabilities across business domains and tribes

- Establish and govern enterprise integration standards and patterns, including synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, request/reply, data synchronization, batch integration, and integration with external partners

- Own and evolve the enterprise API, Event and Integration Catalog, providing visibility of available APIs, events, interfaces, dependencies, ownership, lifecycle status, and reuse opportunities across the bank

- Define governance and lifecycle management for APIs and events, including naming conventions, versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation, ownership, SLAs/SLOs, security requirements, and documentation standards

- Establish principles for API-first and Event-driven architecture, reducing point-to-point integrations and increasing reuse and interoperability between domains

- Define clear boundaries and responsibilities between domain services, integration platforms, data platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities

- Facilitate integration architecture decisions for cross-domain initiatives and resolve dependencies and conflicts between tribes and systems

- Develop and govern the Enterprise Architecture framework across application, data, integration, and technology domains

- Maintain and evolve the enterprise application portfolio (1,000+ applications), driving rationalization, modernization, and technical debt reduction

- Lead Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes — evaluate solution designs, ensure compliance with EA principles, and provide architectural decisions on cross-domain initiatives

- Review major solution architectures with particular attention to integration design, service boundaries, coupling, resilience, scalability, security, and reuse of existing enterprise capabilities

- Own and manage the Technology Radar — assess emerging technologies, define technology standards and lifecycle policies, and guide adoption and sunset decisions

- Collaborate with tribe leads, product owners, solution architects, platform teams, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities across 10 domains

- Drive adoption of industry frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, BIAN, and ArchiMate to ensure architectural consistency and banking domain alignment

- Apply BIAN concepts to improve service boundaries, domain ownership, API design, and interoperability between banking capabilities

- Conduct architecture maturity assessments, identify capability gaps, and define improvement roadmaps, including integration architecture maturity and platform adoption

- Provide strategic guidance on data architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise data governance and regulatory requirements

- Facilitate cross-tribe architectural alignment, resolve architectural conflicts, and ensure coherent end-to-end solution design

- Work with platform and engineering teams to improve integration observability, reliability, security, and operational governance, including monitoring of APIs, events, message flows, dependencies, and service-level objectives

- Identify redundant interfaces, duplicate APIs, point-to-point integrations, and obsolete integration technologies, and define modernization and decommissioning roadmaps

- Mentor and coach solution architects and engineering leads, fostering architecture thinking and integration design excellence across teams

- Communicate architecture strategy, decisions, roadmaps, and trade-offs to C-level stakeholders and technical audiences alike

Your skills and experience:

- 7–10+ years of IT experience with at least 3 years in enterprise, integration, or solution architecture roles, preferably in banking or financial services

- Strong hands-on background in enterprise integration architecture, including designing large-scale integration landscapes and defining integration strategies and standards

- Strong expertise in: API architecture and API Management, REST and asynchronous API patterns, Event-driven architecture, Kafka and event streaming, messaging technologies, ESB and iPaaS platforms, service integration, external/partner integrations, legacy and core banking integration

- Practical experience designing or governing enterprise integration platforms/layers and defining their target architecture and evolution roadmap

- Experience implementing API and Event governance, including API/event catalogs, ownership models, versioning, lifecycle management, documentation, security standards, and reuse policies

- Understanding of integration patterns and anti-patterns, including point-to-point integration, orchestration vs choreography, transactional integration, eventual consistency, idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, and distributed system resilience

- Strong understanding of API security approaches including OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, token management, authorization, rate limiting, and API gateway security controls

- Experience with enterprise API Management or integration technologies such as Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Kafka, Confluent, or equivalent platforms

- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) and modeling notations (ArchiMate, UML, BPMN)

- Hands-on experience with EA tooling (LeanIX, Ardoq, MEGA, or similar) for portfolio management, dependency mapping, capability modeling, and architecture repository management

- Deep understanding of banking domains such as core banking, payments, lending, customer onboarding, KYC/AML, cards, accounting, and regulatory compliance

- Experience with BIAN Service Landscape and its practical application to domain decomposition, service boundaries, and integration architecture

- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid infrastructure strategies, including Kubernetes, Docker, service connectivity, and Infrastructure as Code

- Experience with data architecture concepts including data products, data mesh/data fabric, master data management, data governance, and analytics platforms

- Knowledge of modern software engineering and architecture practices including DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, and observability

- Proven experience in technology portfolio governance, technology radar management, lifecycle policies, build-vs-buy analysis, and vendor assessment

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — ability to translate complex integration and architecture topics into clear business implications for executive audiences

- Experience facilitating Architecture Review Boards, architecture workshops, and cross-functional alignment sessions

- Strategic thinking combined with pragmatic execution — ability to define long-term target architecture while supporting incremental modernization of a complex legacy banking landscape

- Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken

Nice to have:

- TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification

- BIAN certification or strong practical BIAN implementation experience

- Experience establishing or transforming an enterprise integration platform / integration layer in a large financial institution

- Experience building enterprise API and Event Catalogs and introducing API-first / Event-driven governance at scale

- Experience with Agile at scale and architecture practices within tribe/squad organizational structures

- Background in core banking migration, modernization, or large-scale transformation programs

- Experience modernizing ESB/legacy integration landscapes toward APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures

- Familiarity with AI/ML integration patterns, agent/API integration, and data-driven architecture approaches

- Experience with business capability modeling and IT strategy development