Integration Architect

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services. 

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do: 

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner 
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business 
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK 
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW 
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW 

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!. 

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Integration Solutions Architect to lead the design, governance and modernisation of enterprise integration solutions across cloud-native, legacy and external partner environments.

The role will have a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and Azure API Management (APIM), designing secure, scalable and resilient integration architectures. You will work closely with engineering, platform, DevOps and architecture teams to establish API standards, integration patterns, automated deployment approaches and secure connectivity across Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of enterprise integration solutions across Azure, on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Solution Architecture Documents and interface/API specifications.
• Design and govern enterprise APIs using Azure API Management (APIM).
• Define API design and governance standards, including OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning, schema management and API lifecycle management.
• Design APIM Products, subscriptions, throttling and consumption models for internal and external consumers.
• Establish reusable API and integration patterns and promote API discovery and reuse.
• Design and implement APIM policies and Policy Fragments covering areas such as authentication, routing, transformation and payload validation.