Integration Architect Consultant

Integration Architect Consultant Role--Remote

Role Overview

The Integration Architect defines, designs, and governs enterprise integration architecture standards across AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and onprem systems. This consultant creates scalable integration blueprints, reusable patterns, and secure connectivity frameworks that ensure interoperability, reliability, and domainaligned data exchange across Prudential ecosystems. The role partners closely with domain teams, platform engineering, API management teams, and enterprise architecture to accelerate delivery while maintaining architectural integrity.

Key Responsibilities

<>Integration Standards & Governance

• Define and maintain enterprise standards for API design, event schemas, messaging patterns, and integration of contracts.
• Establish integration governance across AWS, Azure, MS Fabric, and onprem systems.
• Define patterns for ADS (Authorized Data Sources) alignment, data contracts, schema evolution, and anchor key management.
• Enforce adherence to enterprise security principles including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, TLS, ZeroTrust patterns.

<>Blueprints & Reference Architecture

• Build and maintain unified enterprise integration architecture blueprints spanning cloud, Fabric, and onprem connectivity.
• Create domainspecific and crossdomain integration flow maps, canonical API patterns, and eventdriven reference architectures.
• Align AWS, Azure, MS Fabric, and onprem patterns under Prudential's Unified Architecture.

<>Reusable Patterns & Engineering Enablement

• Develop reusable integration patterns for:
  • AWS: API Gateway, Event Bridge, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, Kinesis, AWS Batch, AWS ECR, AWS ECS Fargate.
  • Azure: APIM, Functions, Service Bus, Azure Data Factory (all IR types), Azure Synapse Pipelines, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Batch, Azure Data Explorer ingestion.
  • MS Fabric: Data Factory pipelines, Lakehouse ingestion interfaces, Fabric Data Pipelines, Notebook-based ETL, Warehouse ingestion.
  • Onprem: MFT, MQ, legacy services.
• Provide templates for API contracts, event schemas, integration errorhandling, observability hooks, and resiliency patterns.

<>Metadata, ADS, & Anchor Key Integration

• Define integration patterns incorporating ADS rules, domain ownership, and anchor key management for interoperability.
• Ensure all integration patterns embed security, observability, lineage awareness, and operational resiliency.
• Collaborate with data governance to ensure consistent entity resolution and crossdomain identifier mapping.

<>Domain Engagement & Architecture Review

• Guide domain teams in implementing targetstate integration architectures.
• Lead or participate in architecture reviews for API designs, event models, platform integrations, and connectivity.
• Recommend modernization opportunities to retire from legacy integration mechanisms and adopt eventdriven/APIfirst models.

Qualifications

<>Technical Expertise

• 8 12+ years in integration architecture, API engineering, eventdriven design, or hybrid integration.
• Strong handson expertise across:
  • AWS: API Gateway, Event Bridge, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Lake Formation, Kinesis, AWS Batch, AWS ECR, AWS ECS Fargate.
  • Azure: APIM, Functions, Service Bus, Azure Data Factory (all IR types), Azure Synapse Pipelines, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Batch, Azure Data Explorer ingestion.
  • MS Fabric: Data Factory pipelines, Lakehouse ingestion interfaces, Fabric Data Pipelines, Notebook-based ETL, Warehouse ingestion.
  • RDBMS: SQL, Oracle, DB2, RDS, etc.
  • Onprem: MQ, MFT, REST/SOAP services.
• Understanding of ADS, anchor key management, data/domain contracts, lineageaware integration.
• Experience designing eventdriven, APIfirst, batch, and hybrid integration architectures.