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Job Summary
- We're seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager: Integrations to lead the design, delivery, and governance of integration services and platforms that connect applications, data, and external partners across the enterprise.
- This role ensures seamless, secure, and scalable integrations between core systems, digital channels, backend services, and third-party ecosystems, while adhering to enterprise engineering standards.
- The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with leadership, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to drive integration excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise integration roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise engineering and business strategies.
- Champion an API-first and event-driven integration approach to enable reusability and speed-to-market.
- Partner with enterprise architecture to set integration standards, frameworks, and design patterns.
- Drive modernization of legacy integrations (ETL, point-to-point) into cloud-native, real-time, and scalable services.
- Oversee the development and management of API gateways, ESBs (Enterprise Service Buses), event streaming platforms, and middleware.
- Ensure integrations are resilient, secure, and optimized for performance.
- Govern API lifecycle management, versioning, and developer onboarding.
- Lead delivery of B2B, B2C, and third-party integrations, including fintech and partner ecosystems.
- Enforce enterprise integration governance across all teams and business domains.
- Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements across integration flows.
- Oversee observability frameworks for integration monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Establish standards for data contracts, schemas, and message exchange formats.
- Lead and mentor integration engineers, architects, and platform specialists.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
- Develop career pathways and skills growth in APIs, middleware, event streaming, and cloud-native integration technologies.
- Promote cross-team collaboration between backend, mobile, and digital channels to ensure consistency in integration practices.
- Manage relationships with integration platform vendors (e.g., MuleSoft, Apigee, Kafka, Dell Boomi).
- Partner with internal product, backend, and digital teams to deliver seamless end-to-end solutions.
- Represent integration engineering in architecture boards, governance forums, and business-aligned programs.
Qualifications Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline (mandatory).
- Postgraduate qualification (MSc in IT/Software, MBA) – advantageous.
Experience:
- 10–12 years’ experience in software/integration engineering, with at least 5+ years in leadership roles.
- Proven experience with enterprise integration platforms, API management, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong background in designing secure, reusable, and high-performance integration services.
- Hands-on experience in cloud-native integration (serverless, containerized services).
- Track record of integrating core enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, Core Banking) with digital and partner ecosystems.
- Experience in vendor management, platform selection, and cost optimization for integration services.
Preferred Certifications:
- API & Integration certifications (MuleSoft Certified Architect, Apigee API Engineer, Kafka Certified Developer).
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP – Integration or Architect tracks).
- Agile / SAFe certifications (Scrum Master, SAFe Practitioner).
- ITIL v4 or governance frameworks – advantageous.
Core Skills & Competencies:
- Deep expertise in integration architectures (API, ESB, EDA, ETL).
- Strong knowledge of data flows, contracts, and service orchestration.
- Leadership and people management skills, with experience developing specialized integration teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management across technical and business domains.
- Ability to balance speed-to-market with governance, compliance, and enterprise reusability.
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