Lead Integration Engineer – Birmingham
Hybrid working – 3 days per week onsite
Salary upto - £64,562 + 20% Flex fund on top of salary
A leading client in Birmingham is seeking a Lead Integration Engineer to join their Platforms & Operations function. The role focuses on managing IT integration platforms, ensuring their delivery, maintenance, and availability while overseeing development and management services from suppliers. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, defining integration strategy and architecture, and maintaining standards for API development and data movement. The position also oversees the operation and improvement of integration services and middleware platforms, ensuring performance, security, and availability.
Key skills and responsibilities,
* Experience leading integration platform delivery and lifecycle management in complex IT environments.
* Skilled in designing and overseeing technical integration solutions across enterprise systems using APIs, messaging systems, or data pipelines.
* Effective collaboration with platform teams, architects, and suppliers to ensure integration aligns with enterprise architecture and business goals.
* Maintained operational stability of integration services through monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement.
* Provided secure, scalable, reusable integration capabilities for delivery teams and projects.
* Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and tools (APIs, ESB, messaging queues, event-driven architectures, ETL/ELT).
* Familiarity with cloud-native, hybrid, and middleware integration solutions (e.g., Azure Integration Services).
* Understanding of delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile, lean) as they impact integration planning and execution.
* Awareness of security, governance, and data protection in systems integration, including secure API management.
* Expertise in connecting enterprise platforms (ERP, HCM, data platforms) for resilient, scalable integration.
* Oversaw operation and improvement of integration services and middleware, ensuring availability, performance, and security.
* Worked with technical teams to align integration with technology architecture and strategic objectives.
* Led delivery and lifecycle management of integration capabilities supporting key enterprise platforms.
* Advised on integration patterns and best practices (point-to-point vs. platforms).
* Ensured rigorous version control, monitoring, maintenance, and incident response for integration components.
* Established and managed inventory and governance processes for integration design, development, and policy compliance.
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