Application & Integration Architect

• Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture standards principles and governance frameworks.
• Design and communicate enterprise-wide integration architectures connectors APIs service bus solutions and data exchange mechanisms.
• Elicit business user and technical requirements and translate them into scalable integration architectures.
• Design integration flows services and interoperability solutions across cloud hybrid and on-premises environments.
• Plan and optimize integration platform capacity security performance and availability.
• Analyse existing systems applications and services and identify integration opportunities and solution options.
• Map business goals project benefits priorities components and system features into architectural designs.
• Maintain and track architectural artefacts throughout the systems lifecycle.
• Contribute to system design testing quality assurance change management and DevSecOps practices.
• Prepare architecture documentation technical specifications and executive presentations.
• Lead development teams and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes.
• Select assess and recommend technologies tools platforms and integration standards.
• Collect analyse and interpret system and platform metrics.
• Optimize solutions from performance security scalability and quality perspectives.
• Contribute to the Enterprise Architecture repository and maintain required architectural artefacts.

Qualifications :

Mandatory:

• Masters degree (EQF Level 7) or equivalent qualification.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant IT professional experience minimum 5 of which in a similar Enterprise Integration Architect position.
• At least 2 certifications among:
  • Iasa Architect CITA-A
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
  • TIBCO Certified Associate
  • Certified SOA Architect
  • or equivalent internationally recognized certification.
• Experience acting as the lead architect for at least one enterprise-wide integration platform deployment.
• Expert knowledge of system integration architecture at data and API levels.
• Expert knowledge of designing enterprise integration platform connectors integration flows and enterprise service bus solutions.
• Expert knowledge of capacity planning and security architecture for integration platforms.
• Good knowledge of integration patterns standards and architectural models.
• Good knowledge of serverless and containerisation technologies across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Excellent technical knowledge of integration platforms such as TIBCO or MuleSoft Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) databases application servers middleware technologies cloud integration patterns and Software Development Lifecycle methodologies.
• Good knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and system architecture design practices.
• Good knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices.
• Extensive experience aligning application and integration architectures with business objectives.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect ARIS Architect or equivalent solutions.
• Good knowledge of architectural standards and frameworks such as TOGAF Zachman Framework Azure Well-Architected Framework or equivalent.
• Good knowledge of hybrid systems and application integration approaches.
• Excellent communication documentation leadership and problem-solving skills.

Advantageous:

• Experience modelling enterprise architectures using ArchiMate.
• Experience with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) or other interinstitutional interoperability frameworks.
• Experience applying enterprise architecture styles patterns and reference architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native integration services and API management platforms.
• Experience working within large-scale public sector or international organisation environments.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time