Integration Architect

Salary: £42,000 - 82,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka: Topics, partitions, consumer groups
• Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry & Avro/JSON/Protobuf
• Deep expertise in AWS streaming & messaging: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, EventBridge (rules, event buses, routing), SQS/SNS with dead letter queues
• AWS Lambda event-based integrations
• Experience designing event-driven and microservices architectures
• Strong knowledge of API integration patterns (REST, GraphQL)
• ETL/ELT and data pipelines
• Distributed system design
• High throughput and low-latency data streaming
• Good understanding of Java/Python/Node.js for integration logic
• Familiarity with containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, IaC
• Architectural thinking with strong problem-solving abilities
• Ability to lead teams, mentor developers, and influence decisions
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working in Agile environments

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise integration architecture using event-driven, microservices, and real-time streaming patterns
• Architect solutions using Kafka, AWS EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Kinesis Streams/Firehose, and Kafka Connect
• Establish integration standards, best practices, reusable frameworks, and governance models
• Design solutions that ensure high availability, scalability, observability, and security
• Evaluate system integration options and recommend optimal patterns (Pub/Sub, CQRS, event sourcing, streaming analytics, request-response APIs, batch)
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of integration platforms and streaming pipelines
• Define event schemas, streaming topologies, routing logic, partitions, consumer groups, and throughput targets
• Guide development teams in building producers, consumers, connectors, and stream processing applications
• Review designs/code to ensure alignment with architecture guidelines
• Work closely with cloud engineering teams on infrastructure design, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), performance tuning, and cost optimization
• Implement monitoring using CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
• Enforce integration security practices: Authentication/Authorization IAM policies, Encryption at rest/in transit, Data governance & lineage
• Ensure solutions meet RPO, RTO, resiliency, disaster recovery, and failover requirements
• Establish observability using tracing, logging, alerting, and dashboards
• Collaborate with product owners, domain architects, delivery managers, and business stakeholders
• Translate business requirements into scalable integration architectures
• Provide technical leadership across teams and mentor integration engineers

Technologies

• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• CQRS
• DevOps
• Docker
• ETL
• Grafana
• GraphQL
• IAM
• JSON
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Python
• REST
• Security
• Terraform
• microservices
• NodeJS

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We are seeking an Integration Architect to join our team in Norwich, where you will work 2 to 3 days a week. This is a 6-month assignment focused on designing, governing, and delivering enterprise-scale integration solutions using advanced technologies. We offer a collaborative environment where you will partner with engineering, product, and cloud teams to create robust integration landscapes. You will play a crucial role in establishing architectural standards and driving best practices, all while providing technical leadership to ensure successful outcomes.

last updated 17 week of 2026