Senior Solution and Integration Architect

Senior Solution & Integration Architect About the Role

Client Enterprise Architecture is seeking a highly skilled Senior Solution & Integration Architect to design, govern, and evolve the enterprise integration and application landscape. This role bridges solution architecture and integration architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise business objectives, EA principles, and Client's digital transformation and IT modernization agenda. The position demands strong expertise in API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native integration approaches, as well as hands-on leadership across IT application ecosystems.

Define and lead the enterprise integration strategy, aligned with Client's digital and EA objectives & roadmap.

Assess current integration landscape (if required) using frameworks such as OSIMM and Gartners capability models.

Publish maturity assessments, gap analyses, and multi-year / phased integration transformation roadmaps.

Drive planning, designing, road mapping, and implementation of migration of integration solutions and projects.

Develop and maintain integration reference architectures for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.

Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies such as iPaaS, API marketplaces, Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) understanding AI / ML-enabled integrations.

Architect end-to-end integrations across enterprise applications, on-prem, cloud (GCP, Azure, OCI etc.), and hybrid environments., and external ecosystems.

Implement API Management platforms (IBM APIC, GCP Apigee, Mule Soft, Azure API Management etc.) and establish developer portals.

Develop reference architectures and reusable design patterns for APIs, microservices, and event-driven platforms.

Enable real-time data exchange and streaming via Kafka, GCP Pub / Sub, Application integration and Azure Event Hub etc.

Govern integration delivery to ensure reliability, resilience and scalability.

Expertise on planning, designing , road mapping & implementation on migration of integration solutions & projects.

Lead the design and implementation of integration platforms including :

• GCP Integration Services (Apigee X, Cloud Run, Eventarc, Cloud Functions, Data Fusion, Dataflow etc.)
• IBM CP4I (ACE, MQ, APIC, Data Power etc.)
• Azure Integration Services (API Management, Event Grid, Logic Apps)

Possesses deep, end-to-end expertise in software engineering, solution architecture, and security capable of designing and implementing robust, multi-cloud, enterprise solutions that balance user experience, performance, resilience, reliability, and security across multi-channel platforms and diverse UI / UX paradigms.

Define and institutionalize integration and application architecture patterns, technical standards, and reusable solution frameworks to ensure consistency, scalability, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.

Ensure security, compliance, and observability across all integrations & non-integration solutions (OAuth
2.0, JWT, SAML, GDPR, PCI-DSS).

Establish monitoring, logging, and performance frameworks for mission-critical integrations.

Assisting in EA governance, Assess or evaluate using governance models including architecture gate reviews, BRD, SOW, HLD etc. compliance checks, and lifecycle controls.

Engage with strategic vendors for solution design, remediation, and delivery assurance.

Lead PoCs and pilots for iPaaS, API Gateways, and event platforms. Define use-cases, success criteria, evaluate outcomes, and publish advisory reports.

Participate in RFP processes, technical evaluation panels etc.

Partner with enterprise architects, domain architects, engineering leaders and delivery leads to ensure architecture cohesion and enterprise strategy.

Mentor cross-functional development teams in the design and delivery of both integration and non-integration solutions, emphasizing reusability, cost optimization, API-first principles, event-driven architecture, and Dev Ops best practices to enable scalable, maintainable, and…