Application Integration Lead/ Integration Solution Architect

We are seeking an experienced End-to-End Application Integration Lead/Architect to design, implement, and oversee enterprise-wide system integrations across cloud, on-premise, and third-party platforms. This role is responsible for ensuring seamless data flow, application interoperability, integration architecture governance, delivery leadership across business-critical systems and overall testing strategy across complex systems.
This Lead/Architect bridge the gap between high-level architectural design and hands-on QA by building scalable automation frameworks, ensuring multi-platform integrations, and managing release readiness.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical integration expertise with data management, testing, validation, leadership, stakeholder management, and project delivery capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Application Integration Strategy Delivery & Architecture
Lead the design and implementation of end-to-end integration solutions across enterprise applications.
Define integration standards, frameworks, and best practices.
Develop scalable APIs, middleware, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance standards.
Manage integration projects from requirements gathering through deployment and support.
Coordinate integration between core cloud, on prem, SaaS, and legacy systems.
Oversee ETL, API, microservices, and middleware implementations and define integration validation and data definition.
Ensure data consistency, reliability, and performance across systems.
Drive automation, monitoring, provide guidance on integration technologies and modernization strategies.
Collaborate with business teams, vendors, architects, and infrastructure teams.
Translate business requirements into technical integration solutions.
Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans to leadership.
Establish integration governance processes and documentation standards.
Monitor production integrations and resolve critical incidents.
Ensure integrations meet SLA, security, and compliance requirements.
Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and scalability planning.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of experience in application integration, middleware, or enterprise architecture and quality engineering.
5+ years in in End-to-End technical leadership or lead integration role.
Strong experience withAPIs (REST/SOAP), Middleware platforms, ETL tools, Microservices
architecture, Message queues/event streaming, Cloud integrations
3+ years in hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or C#).
Strong understanding of: Data mapping and data lineage, Authentication/security protocols, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab), DevOps practices and familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
Test Management: Strong command of tools like Rally, Jira, Zephyr, TestRail, or ALM.
Backend & Data: Solid understanding of SQL and API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured).
Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder, leadership and strategic communication skills.