Expert Integration Engineer

Purpose: To design and govern complex enterprise integration solutions, ensuring secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient connectivity between applications, platforms, partners, and external services.  Main Duties and Responsibilities: • Act as senior technical authority for enterprise integration across the technology estate.  • Design complex integration architectures, APIs, interfaces, and messaging solutions.  • Define integration standards, patterns, protocols, and engineering practices.  • Lead technical implementation of critical system integrations with partners, schemes, and internal platforms.  • Design synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, and API-based integration solutions.  • Build and govern integrations on the enterprise integration stack (IBM ACE/API Connect, MQ, Kafka).  • Own API lifecycle management, including versioning, gateway policies, and consumer onboarding.  • Ensure integrations meet security, performance, availability, and scalability requirements.  • Apply security controls for partner connectivity, including mTLS, certificate management, encryption, and secure key handling.  • Ensure integrations satisfy regulatory, audit, and change-governance requirements.  • Review integration designs and implementations for architectural compliance.  • Troubleshoot complex integration and production issues across system boundaries.  • Optimize integration performance, reliability, monitoring, error handling, and reconciliation.  • Identify integration risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and recommend improvements.  • Mentor integration engineers and contribute to enterprise integration architecture initiatives.