Remote Senior Enterprise Integration Architect

Employment Type:

Permanent

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At IATA, we represent over 350 airlines worldwide, striving to make aviation safer, smarter, more sustainable, and inclusive.

• Our Values are not just words on a page - they are the energy behind everything we do: ONE IATA - Collaborate across teams, TRUSTED - We do the right thing, INNOVATIVE - We make tomorrow better, INCLUSIVE - We embrace diverse perspectives.
• With over 30,000 courses available, we believe in continuous learning and support your growth in an ever-changing industry.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion are our priorities. We are certified by the Equal Salary Foundation, offering equal pay and family-friendly policies.
• We encourage community involvement through volunteering and strive to make tomorrow better for aviation and our communities. We offer time off so you can support causes important to you.
• We promote work-life balance with flexible work options, including remote and hybrid work, a generous 'work from abroad' policy, and you get your birthday off!

As part of the Information and Data (I&D) Division, the Central Architecture and Data Office (CADO) team drives best-in-class architecture and data management practices across the organization. Our mission is to unify enterprise architecture, data standards, and integration practices to ensure solutions are coherent, scalable, and aligned with business priorities. We maximize the value of technology and data investments by defining enterprise architecture principles, data standards, and integration patterns, supporting domain‑specific architecture teams, and guiding solution design across the organization.

The team promotes consistent, reusable, and scalable architectures, ensures high‑quality data practices, and prioritizes initiatives to enable informed decision‑making and long‑term business impact.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture, Corporate Support Services, the Senior Integration Architect will be responsible for defining and overseeing key aspects of IATA’s enterprise integration landscape. This includes establishing integration architecture standards and patterns, providing strategic oversight of integration platforms and middleware, and guiding the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient system integrations across the organization.

As the Senior Architect, Integration, you will work across IATA’s enterprise technology landscape to ensure that systems, applications, and platforms are integrated in a coherent, secure, and scalable manner to support business processes and operational effectiveness. The main responsibilities include:

• Defining and developing enterprise integration architecture, including standards, patterns, and best practices for APIs, messaging, and event‑driven integrations.
• Designing and delivering key integration initiatives to ensure reliable, timely, and efficient exchange of data and services across enterprise and industry systems.
• Governing integration platforms, middleware, and interfaces to ensure consistency, reuse, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Managing core integration assets (e.g., canonical models, interface contracts, and shared services) to maintain consistency and interoperability across the organization.
• Providing architectural direction and guidance to solution teams, ensuring integrations are secure, resilient, and fit for purpose.
• Promoting integration governance and ensuring compliance with architectural standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or equivalent hands‑on technical experience.
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating system integrations in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong practical experience implementing API‑led, event‑driven, and message‑based integrations.
• Proven experience developing and troubleshooting integrations, including interface contracts, data transformations, error handling, and performance optimization.
• Experience deploying and running integrations in cloud and hybrid environments, particularly on AWS, including containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• Ability to work closely with development teams, reviewing code, unblocking delivery, and providing day‑to‑day architectural guidance.

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