Enterprise Integration Architect

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