Integration Architect

Enterprise Integration Architect - Leading Law Firm - Hybrid working from Leeds - £100,000

The Enterprise Integration Architect will define and drive the organization's integration strategy and architecture. This includes setting a vision for integration capabilities, aligning technology with business needs, and contributing to strategic transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the enterprise-wide integration architecture vision and strategy.
• Define the future-state architecture for integration across platforms and services.
• Create and maintain a roadmap for delivering integration capabilities.
• Establish reusable patterns, standards, and best practices for integration solutions.
• Collaborate on change initiatives by providing architectural direction and solution design input.
• Support compliance assessments and reporting related to platform and product environments.
• Identify opportunities to reuse components and standardize integration technologies across business units.
• Simplify architectural complexity and reduce operational costs where feasible.
• Drive alignment between IT strategy and business process improvements.
• Evaluate existing architectures in production against expected performance and resilience.

Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience with integration platforms
• Desirable experience with additional platforms such as Boomi, Workato, or similar iPaaS tools.
• TOGAF certification (or equivalent architectural framework experience).
• Experience in working within complex matrixed organizations.
• Understanding of enterprise operating models, financial governance, and risk management.
• Familiarity with modern IT practices such as Agile, DevOps, and ITIL.
• Working knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures, SOA, APIs, and cloud-based services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS).
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate, influence, and challenge stakeholders.
• Ability to distil complex problems into clear technical and strategic solutions.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to communicate technical concepts in business terms.
• Skilled in modelling tools, architecture repositories, and visual communication.
• Experience in assessing emerging technologies and their impact on enterprise architecture.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Azure technologies (e.g., Data Factory, Synapse, ADLS, Databricks, Power BI).
• Understanding of enterprise data architecture and analytics platforms.