ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation with offices in both Glasgow and Dundee are currently looking to recruit an Integration Architect for an initial 11 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of £600-£700/day inside of IR35 (based on experience). This is a hybrid role with 2 days per week required onsite in either Glasgow or Dundee.

The Role:

• Lead the design and assurance of system-to system integrations, ensuring consistent, reusable and secure connectivity across the technology estate.


• Define, document and maintain integration architecture standards, patterns and reference models, with a particular focus on API-led and event-driven integration.


• Design and assure integrations deployed within AWS and Boomi, ensuring effective use of cloud-native services and delivering robust API management, messaging, orchestration and security requirements for resilience.


• Define and govern API connectivity models, including internal and external, 3rd-party integrations whilst ensuring appropriate versioning, documentation and lifecycle management.


• Ensure integrations meet non-functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency in line with public sector standards.


• Provide architectural assurance and challenge for integration designs presented through formal governance and review processes.


• Work collaboratively with Technical Architects, delivery teams, platform teams, security specialists and external suppliers to deliver agreed integration architectures.


• Support delivery teams during build and implementation phases by providing hands-on architectural guidance and resolving complex integration issues.

Demonstrable Experience of:

• Proven experience operating as an Integration Architect or equivalent specialist architecture role within a large and complex organisation.


• Extensive experience designing, implementing, governing and supporting enterprise integration solutions using Boomi, including API Management, Integration, Master Data Management and Event Streams capabilities.


• Strong knowledge of application architecture and enterprise application landscapes, including SaaS, COTS and bespoke applications.


• Demonstrable experience defining integration standards, reference architectures, design principles and technical roadmaps.


• Experience leading architectural governance activities and providing technical assurance through Architecture Review Boards or equivalent governance forums.


• Proven ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders, suppliers, delivery teams and executive audiences, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.


• Experience working within Agile and multidisciplinary delivery environments.


• Experience working in large public sector organisations with an understanding of government digital service standards and governance processes.


• Expert knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture, with practical experience of integration and API services including:
  
  
  
  • API Gateway
  
  
  • Lambda
  
  
  • EventBridge
  
  
  • SNS/SQS
  
  
  • Step Functions
  
  
  • ECS/EKS
  
  
  • IAM
  
  
  • CloudWatch
  
  
  • VPC networking and security controls
  
  
  
  


• Demonstrable experience defining and governing API strategies, including:
  
  
  
  • REST APIs
  
  
  • Event-driven APIs
  
  
  • API lifecycle management
  
  
  • Security standards
  
  
  • Versioning and governance models
  
  
  
  


• Strong understanding of integration architecture patterns and their appropriate application, including:
  
  
  
  • Point-to-point integration
  
  
  • Hub-and-spoke
  
  
  • Event-driven architecture
  
  
  • Publish-subscribe
  
  
  • Microservices integration
  
  
  • Data integration and synchronisation patterns
  
  
  • Hybrid cloud integration