Enterprise Architect - Integration Specialist

Enterprise Architect - Integration Specialist page is loaded Enterprise Architect - Integration Specialist Apply locations UK - Greater London time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: September 19, 2025 (24 days left to apply) job requisition id 524815 About the role:
The Enterprise Architect - Integration Specialist is a strategic leader who proactively and holistically guides enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners, and distributed delivery teams through transformation and optimisation initiatives. This pivotal role places integration capability at the heart of business and IT alignment, ensuring that integration strategy and execution are central to achieving revenue growth, cost optimisation, risk mitigation, and sustainability.

The Enterprise Architect steers the development and execution of enterprise architecture with a primary focus on building robust integration ecosystems. This includes setting the vision for technology integration strategy, establishing best-in-class integration patterns and frameworks, and ensuring seamless connectivity of systems, applications, and data across the business landscape. This position is responsible for embedding integration capabilities within all architectural activities, ensuring frictionless digital operations and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the vision and execution of the integration strategy to power seamless connections between business and IT in democratized and federated IT environments.
• Architect and continuously evolve enterprise integration capabilities that enable agility, scalability, and interoperability in digital and hybrid operating models.
• Build and sustain strong, trust-based relationships with stakeholders to align and advocate for enterprise integration standards and practices.
• Analyse technology trends, market disruptions, and operating models through the lens of integration opportunity, shaping business outcomes through integration leadership.
• Communicate compelling integration-driven future state architectures, using visual storytelling to enable stakeholder understanding and long-term planning.
• Support a variety of operating models (project-centric, product-centric, agile, hybrid) by developing integration blueprints, frameworks, and pattern libraries.
• Champion and communicate the enterprise architecture team's integration services, continually adapting them to emerging organisational needs.
• Coach architects and business stakeholders to foster an integration-first mindset and architectural thinking across teams and initiatives.

Scope of Activities:

1. Formulation of Strategy & Guidance of Execution

• Partner with business and leadership stakeholders to identify opportunities for integration-driven transformation and to guide investments in integration technologies.
• Analyse current and future business/operating models, market trends, and technology shifts focusing on the strategic application of integration capabilities.
• Assess organisational readiness for integration-centric change through scenario planning and capability maturity assessments.
• Develop business models and execution plans in which integration blueprints are foundational for connecting systems, data, and processes.
• Translate strategy into actionable integration roadmaps, articulating how integration enables operational excellence and business agility.

2. Relationship Building & Stakeholder Engagement

• Position enterprise architecture as the organisation's integration consultancy, delivering agile, time-boxed integration services and advice.
• Define relationships between people, processes, technology, and integration patterns to optimise end-to-end value flows.
• Advise stakeholders on investment decisions, with an emphasis on integration strategies (e.g., APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, middleware, hybrid cloud connectivity).
• Lead cross-functional teams in resolving integration challenges and addressing the implications of product and platform decisions on the integration landscape.
• Foster a collaborative architect community with integration as a unifying priority to resolve conflicts and align business and IT delivery.

3. Orchestration of Business Outcomes

• Design business architecture where integration capability is the linchpin for business and IT strategy execution.
• Identify key business drivers and outcomes, mapping them to required integration capabilities and technology enablers.
• Create, evolve, and govern diagnostic deliverables such as integration pattern libraries, capability maps, and reference architectures that guide investments and solution design.
• Detect and address gaps in integration maturity and future-state business/IT environments, recommending integration-first solutions.
• Define the resource, structure, and culture required to institutionalise integration thinking and practices throughout the organisation.
• Collaborate with the CIO and leadership to design and mature an EA function that is renowned for its integration expertise and impact (e.g., fusion teams, federated delivery initiatives).

4. Support for Solutions Design & Delivery

• Modernise technology portfolios and develop roadmaps with integration capabilities at the centre, aligning architecture activities across programmes, projects, and products.
• Conduct integration-focused gap analyses and create IT roadmaps reflecting ecosystem readiness for API, data pipeline, and hybrid connectivity integration.
• Recommend and implement improvements to IT environments, championing scalable, secure, and reusable integration frameworks and best practices.
• Define and govern minimal viable architectures, integration standards, reference patterns, and guardrails (e.g., API gateways, event buses, hybrid cloud connectors).
• Enable agile teams to innovate within a "freedom-in-a-box" framework, bounded by integration principles and policies.
• Ensure delivery teams adhere to enterprise integration standards, accelerating time-to-market while safeguarding architecture integrity.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to address advanced integration scenarios (e.g., IoT, edge computing, multi-cloud architectures).

Qualifications:

• Master's or bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 8 years' experience in enterprise architecture, strategic planning, or business analysis, with a demonstrated focus on integration leadership.
• At least 8 years' experience across three or more disciplines, including business/information/solution architecture, application development, middleware, data management, or operations.
• Proven hands-on leadership in developing and implementing technology integration strategies, including API-led, event-driven, microservices, and hybrid cloud architectures.

Skills:

• Expert in integration patterns (e.g., pub/sub, ETL, ESB), middleware technologies, hybrid/multi-cloud connectivity, and modern integration platforms.
• Deep knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS/IaaS/PaaS, service-oriented architectures, APIs, microservices, event-driven IT, and data analytics - with an emphasis on how integration underpins these domains.
• Advanced skills in business/financial models, cost-benefit analysis, and risk management for integration initiatives.
• Familiarity with EA tools, graphical modelling languages (e.g., ArchiMate), and frameworks such as TOGAF and ITIL, especially as applied to integration architecture.
• Mastery of SDLC, agile/lean methodologies, scaled agile frameworks (SAFe), and DevOps, particularly in the context of integration solution delivery.
• Exceptional leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of driving consensus around integration strategy.

Competencies:

• Balances long-term vision with pragmatic execution, with a continual focus on advancing integration capability as a business enabler.
• Quantifies and communicates the business and financial impact of architectural decisions, especially integration costs, benefits, and ROI.
• Rapidly evaluates emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML, blockchain, IoT) for their integration potential and applicability.
• Translates complex integration concepts (e.g., integration blueprints, pattern libraries) for both technical and non-technical audiences with clarity and precision.

Characteristics:

• Recognised as a trusted thought leader and integration authority, influencing executives and peers with diplomacy, integrity, and technical depth.
• Creative systems thinker with strong design thinking and problem-solving skills, always seeking to elevate integration capability and innovation.
• Vendor-agnostic, prioritising sustainable business outcomes and integration excellence above personal technology preferences.
• Resilient in upholding architectural and integration standards, driving best practices even in the face of resistance.

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