Senior Integration Architect

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Integration Architect to lead the integration architecture and technical coordination for a large‑scale Telecom Services Automation & AI Enablement initiative. The role designs scalable, secure integration solutions that connect enterprise applications, telecom platforms, service‑provider systems, approval workflows and automation platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery workshops with business stakeholders, application owners, architecture and cyber security teams, and external service providers.
• Analyze and document existing business processes, system interactions, interfaces, dependencies and integration requirements.
• Define the target integration architecture across enterprise applications, telecom platforms, automation solutions and external service‑provider systems.
• Identify and design required APIs, connectors, integration points and system dependencies.
• Define appropriate integration patterns for API‑based, synchronous, asynchronous, event‑driven and system‑to‑system integrations.
• Design end‑to‑end data flows, mapping, transformation, validation and orchestration requirements.
• Define integration security requirements including authentication, authorization, API security, logging, error handling, monitoring and retry mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture diagrams, integration architecture, interface specifications, data flows and technical design documentation.
• Coordinate technical requirements and integration dependencies across internal IT teams, cyber security, vendors and external service providers.
• Establish reusable integration, API and automation patterns that can be applied across multiple telecom services.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to Integration & Automation Engineers throughout design and implementation.
• Review integration designs and implementations to ensure alignment with architecture standards and best practices.
• Support integration testing, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, scalability and production readiness.
• Identify technical risks, integration constraints and dependencies and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Support the adoption of automation and AI‑enabled workflows across service delivery processes.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 6–8 years of relevant experience in system integration, solution architecture, enterprise applications or integration engineering.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in an Integration Architect, Solution Architect or Technical Lead role.
• Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise integration architectures.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, SOAP/Web Services, API integration, middleware and system‑to‑system integration.
• Good understanding of integration platforms, API gateways, ESB/iPaaS, messaging and orchestration concepts.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, API security, logging, monitoring, exception handling and retry mechanisms.
• Experience integrating multiple enterprise applications, platforms, vendors and third‑party systems.
• Ability to translate business processes and functional requirements into technical architecture and integration designs.
• Experience producing architecture diagrams, interface specifications, data‑flow diagrams and technical design documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate across business, architecture, engineering, security and vendor teams.

Required skills

• Integration Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Integration
• API Architecture
• REST APIs
• Middleware
• API Gateway
• System Integration
• Workflow Orchestration
• Integration Patterns
• Data Integration
• Security & Authentication
• Automation
• Telecom
• Technical Leadership