Integration ArchitectRequired Skills: Key Responsibilities: - Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design. - Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams. - Management delivery of complex service integration solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented. - Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable. - Design hybrid integration solution and migration path for on-prem/cloud services. - Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy. - Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service. - Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users/stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholders reactions with flexibility. - Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it. - Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles. - Mentor team of varied experience levels. - Certification preferably in TOGAF, Oracle, AWS Solution Architect Associate/Professional or similar. Essential Skills: - Experience in varied Architecture Landscape touch points of both On-Prem Cloud, Hybrid, varied Programming Languages, Infrastructure (DR), Security, CI/CD, Scalability, Resilience and Performance. - Exposure to Relational/Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, Toad, DW, NoSQL Database concepts. - Experience in integration gap analysis, performance analysis and proposing solutions based on varied product evaluations. - Expertise in Integration technologies and platforms such as Mulesoft, files (using FTP, SFTP, MoveIT), MQ, CDC, Message Bus, Hub Spoke, Pub/Sub. - Ability to evaluate current system, run POC and suggest to Business Tech stakeholders of products fit for purpose addressing the performance other bottlenecks in BAU system. - Exposure to Security standards for Data in Transit Rest such as TLS / SSL, Data Encryption. - Knowledge on UK GDPR, PII, PCI-DSS data standards. - Implementation of designs related to Batch processing patterns involving Talend, Quartz or similar. - Experience of running projects in the capacity as Integration Architect in GDPR related projects involving Data Sourcing, Validations, Integration, Data Disposition, Auditing Reporting. - Ability to treat Data as an Asset, Architect provide Solutions aligned to it. - Working knowledge in Java 8+ with Clean Architecture, Mockito, Java Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Apache Camel. - Extensive experience working in Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in highly available, distributed products. - Cloud native delivery skills following open standards in Containers As a Service/PaaS/IaaS, AWS CDK, Fargate, Secrets manager, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, MongoDB Atlassian, Serverless Functions and data insight solutions. - Experience in designing systems for integration and re-use, using frameworks/standards, technologies, and design patterns such as API Gateways, REST, Message Brokers and token-based security. - Exposure to Auth Auth principles tools such as SAML, OpenID, OAuth, JWT, OKTA, AWS Cognito, Hashicorp Vault. - A demonstrable record of designing solutions to key non-functional requirements including cyber/security policies, resilience, logging, errors and scalability abiding SLA. - Experience in creating guiding in Architecture Artefacts such as Integration Strategy, High Level Design, LLD, Estimation, Product Evaluation Matrix, Gap Analysis, Performance Matrix. TOGAF, Oracle, AWS, SQL