API Integration Solution Architect

Smartedge's Client is looking for an individual to help with their in API Integration Solution Architect _ Contract _ Dublin, Ireland (Remote)
Job Description :
The Integration Solution Architect will define and govern integration solutions across APIs, microservices, message queues, event-driven services, batch interfaces, and secure file-transfer mechanisms.
The role will coordinate integration architecture across customer channels, operational platforms, core banking systems ,The ideal candidate will have led integration architecture for a major banking transformation involving APIs, messaging, event-driven processing, batch flows, file transfers, cloud platforms, and multiple legacy interfaces.
Mandatory Skills and Experience
Strong integration and solution architecture experience.
Demonstrable experience across:
APIs
Microservices
Message queues
Event-driven architecture
Batch integration
Secure file transfer
Strong understanding of synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.
Experience designing integrations between modern cloud services and legacy systems.
Experience with API management, API security, versioning, throttling, and lifecycle governance.
Strong understanding of message integrity, idempotency, ordering, retries, and error handling.
Experience defining canonical data models, transformations, orchestration, and service decoupling.
Knowledge of identity, certificates, transport security, encryption, and secure connectivity.
Ability to produce detailed integration architecture and interface artefacts.
Experience coordinating integration dependencies across multiple delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
• Own end-to-end integration architecture for assigned transformation initiatives.
• Define integration patterns for:
o Synchronous APIs
o Asynchronous APIs
o Message queues
o Event-driven services
o Event streaming
o Batch interfaces
o Secure file transfer
o Legacy system interfaces
• Design and sequence integration flows spanning multiple systems, programmes, and delivery teams.
• Define API contracts, interface specifications, event schemas, and service interactions.
• Establish approaches for:
o Routing
o Transformation
o Orchestration
o Validation
o Reconciliation
o Exception management
• Define message-handling requirements covering:
o Idempotency
o Ordering
o Duplicate detection
o Timeouts
o Retries
o Dead-letter processing
o Replay and recovery
• Design secure integration between on-premises platforms, cloud environments, third-party systems, and vendor products.
• Define authentication, authorization, encryption, certificate, and secrets-management requirements for interfaces.
• Establish integration observability covering traceability, correlation identifiers, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Work with integration factories and engineering squads to ensure consistent implementation of approved patterns.
• Produce interface inventories, integration diagrams, sequence diagrams, and system-interaction models.
• Define integration transition states where legacy and target platforms must coexist.
• Identify integration dependencies, delivery sequencing requirements, and interface-related risks.
• Present integration designs to architecture governance forums.
Experience/Background
· 7/8 years+ strong solution design experience
· Experience working across customer channels, operational platforms, core systems and enterprise data services
· Have strong integration architecture experience across APIs, microservices, MQ and file-based integrations
· Experience designing solutions spanning both legacy estate and modern cloud-based platforms
· Knowledge of Corporate & Retail FX products would be useful
· Knowledge of Capital Markets business would be useful
Connect with my Colleague or email my Colleague at pavithradevi.r@smartedgesolutions.co.uk
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Contact via +44 (0) 203813196

Work arrangement
Yes