Director, Integration Lead

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Headquartered in Tokyo, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a leading global financial institution and a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group). Built upon our rich Japanese heritage since 1876, we put our customers first and provide seamless access to, from and within the Asia Pacific region. SMBC is one of the largest Japanese banks by assets and maintain strong credit ratings across our global integrated network.

We work closely as one SMBC Group to offer personal, corporate and investment banking services to meet the needs of our customers.

With sustainability embedded within our strategy and operations, we are committed to creating a society in which today’s generation can enjoy economic prosperity and well-being, and pass it on to future generations.

• Lead integration initiatives across strategic programs and technology projects.
• Provide guidance on integration approaches, patterns, standards, and best practices.
• Promote consistent, scalable, maintainable, and reusable integration solutions.
• Partner with delivery teams to identify integration requirements and considerations early in the project lifecycle.

• Drive adoption of reusable APIs, services, integration components, and common capabilities.
• Promote standardization and enterprise-wide reuse across projects and platforms.
• Develop integration playbooks, design guidelines, and implementation best practices.
• Identify opportunities to simplify integrations, improve interoperability, and enhance delivery efficiency.

• Work closely with business, application, infrastructure, security, data, and architecture teams to deliver effective integration solutions.
• Facilitate alignment on integration approaches, priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and support successful project execution.
• Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, vendors, and technology partners.

• Review integration designs and provide recommendations to improve quality, resilience, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Support implementation planning, production readiness assessments, and operational handover activities.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and solution teams to ensure alignment with approved standards and technology direction.
• Champion modern integration approaches including API-led, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures.
• Support AI, workflow automation, cloud, and platform modernization initiatives through effective enterprise integration.
• Evaluate tools, frameworks, accelerators, and patterns that improve integration capability and delivery effectiveness.
• Drive initiatives to improve system connectivity, data exchange, and platform reuse across the technology landscape.

• Ensure integration solutions comply with security, regulatory, operational resilience, and technology risk requirements.
• Promote observability, monitoring, supportability, and resilience as core design principles.
• Support governance, audit, compliance, and control activities related to integration solutions.
• Identify and address integration-related risks, technical debt, and architecture concerns.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, system integration, middleware, architecture, or technology delivery.
• Proven experience leading complex integration initiatives across multiple applications, platforms, and business domains.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, and modern integration practices.
• Experience with API management platforms, integration middleware, cloud and hybrid integration environments, and enterprise application ecosystems.
• Understanding of integration considerations for AI-enabled solutions, including connectivity between AI platforms, enterprise applications, data services, and business workflows.
• Good understanding of microservices, container platforms, data integration, workflow automation, and platform modernization technologies.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills with the ability to influence and drive outcomes across diverse teams.
• Experience working with delivery, architecture, infrastructure,…