Integration Architect

Job Title: Integration Architect
Job Type:Full-Time/Perm
Location: Houston, TX
Travel: Hybrid - 3 days on-site
Base Salary: $,000 (depending on experience)
Total Comp (bonus included): $179,000
Start: ASAP

* No c2c or third parties*

We're partnered exclusively with a leading financial services organization focused on helping individuals and institutions plan for and protect their financial futures. Operating at enterprise scale, they combine deep industry expertise with a strong technology foundation to modernize core platforms, enabling digital transformation, and delivering secure, reliable services across complex and regulated environments.

With a culture centered on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, we are seeking an Integration Architect to join their team. This is a Senior level role that will act as the blueprint designer and technical leader for how their various software systems, applications, and data sources connect, communicate, and exchange data efficiently and securely.

Define the enterprise integration strategy, roadmap, and guiding principles aligned with business and technology goals

Design scalable, high-performance, fault-tolerant integration solutions using API-first, event-driven, batch, and hybrid patterns

Establish non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, resiliency, throughput, and security

• API gateways (Amazon API Gateway), service meshes (Istio, VPC Lattice), Queues (SQS, Amazon MQ-Rabbit MQ/Apache Active MQ), Amazon Event Bridge, Amazon Step Functions, Serverless Functions (AWS Lambda) and Streaming Platforms (Kafka, Kinesis)

Define and enforce enterprise integration standards, best practices, and governance models

Ensure consistency, security, compliance, and quality across all integration initiatives

Review and approve integration designs, technical specifications, and architecture decisions

Select and guide implementation of integration technologies including API gateways, middleware, messaging platforms, and cloud-native services

Provide hands-on technical leadership, design reviews, and mentorship to development teams

Partner closely with product owners, architects, developers, and stakeholders to align integration solutions with business needs

Translate complex business requirements into robust technical integration designs

Oversee integration testing efforts (unit, system, UAT) in partnership with QA teams

Monitor integration health and performance; lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and optimization efforts

Ensure observability, telemetry, and monitoring strategies are built into all integration solutions

Produce and maintain comprehensive architecture artifacts, data flows, interface specifications, and operational documentation

Clearly communicate architectural decisions and integration strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences

7+ years of experience in integration architecture, design, and development

Strong expertise in REST, Graph

QL, event-driven APIs, and microservices architectures

Hands-on experience designing secure integrations using authentication and authorization frameworks

Proven experience integrating APIs across diverse systems, platforms, and data sources

Strong understanding of integration patterns (event-driven, pub/sub, hub-and-spoke, microservices)

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation) and CI/CD pipelines

Proficiency with cloud-native deployment models and Dev Ops practices

Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Experience with AWS integration services including Amazon API Gateway, SQS, Amazon MQ (Rabbit

MQ / Active

MQ), Event Bridge, Step Functions, Lambda, Kafka, and Kinesis

Experience with service meshes (Istio, VPC Lattice) and API management platforms

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Open Telemetry)

Working knowledge of SQL, No

SQL, data transformation, and ETL concepts

Understanding of financial services and regulated environments

For consideration, please apply directly with an updated copy of your resume!