Integration Solution Architect

In this role you will define and steer the enterprise integration strategy to enable secure, scalable data and process flows across core platforms. You will lead architectural decisions and govern integration patterns while working with stakeholders to align with business goals. You’ll mentor delivery teams and ensure designs are production-ready, compliant, and maintainable. This role offers influence across programmes, with a focus on sustainable, reusable integration capabilities that support transformation.

• homebased working
• 23 days’ holiday
• company matched pension
• life assurance
• paid parental leave
• volunteering day

• Define and evolve the enterprise integration strategy and roadmap, aligned to transformation goals
• Govern integration principles, standards, and patterns (e.g., API-led, event-driven, reusable services)
• Provide architectural leadership to ensure scalable, resilient integrations
• Facilitate solution integration workshops with stakeholders to confirm requirements and feasibility
• Lead interface-level design activities including data mapping, message structure, error handling, and reconciliation
• Produce high-level and detailed integration designs for delivery and assurance
• Oversee production readiness, testing, and transition to BAU with hands-on guidance
• Act as senior escalation point for integration challenges across programmes
• Ensure integrations route via the Customer Integration Hub and comply with GDS standards
• Maintain landscape view of platforms, data flows, and dependencies
• Assess API lifecycle, reuse, and governance across systems
• Provide design authority and assurance across integration solutions
• Collaborate with security teams to meet monitoring and privacy standards
• Lead governance, risk management, and compliance activities related to integration

• Proven experience as Lead/Principal Integration Architect in large, complex environments
• Ability to define integration strategy and influence architecture at programme level
• Strong capability to produce and present detailed integration designs
• Experience delivering interface specifications, data mappings, message structures, and reconciliation approaches
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and integration patterns
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
• Desirable: MuleSoft Anypoint Platform experience
• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex concepts to varied audiences

• Strategic thinking
• Strong leadership and coaching
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
• Integration patterns and middleware
• APIs (REST/SOAP)