[Hiring] Senior Integration Architect @Empower

Role Description

As a Senior Integration Architect (Data & APIs) at Empower, you will be both a strategic leader and hands-on technical expert responsible for designing and evolving enterprise integration architecture. Partnering with enterprise architects, application teams, and business leaders, you will define API-first and event-driven architectures that enable real-time, reliable, and scalable system communication.

• Drive standardized integration patterns such as RESTful/gRPC APIs, asynchronous messaging, and data contracts to ensure consistency, security, and resilience across the enterprise.
• Lead modernization efforts to reduce point-to-point integrations and enable loosely coupled systems across legacy and modern platforms.
• Influence key architectural decisions, mentor engineering teams, and establish best practices for API lifecycle management, event-driven design, and distributed system reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing scalable integration solutions across distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of API-based system design and modern integration approaches (e.g., synchronous and asynchronous patterns).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging concepts in real-world applications.
• Experience defining and managing interfaces or data exchange patterns across systems.
• Understanding of reliability considerations in distributed systems (e.g., handling failures, retries, or duplicate processing).
• Experience working across a mix of legacy and modern systems in complex enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in backend or service-based development using languages such as Java, Python, or similar.

Requirements

• Experience with API management platforms or gateways (e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management).
• Hands-on experience with messaging or streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
• Familiarity with domain-driven design concepts (e.g., bounded contexts, service boundaries).
• Experience designing or working with contract-first APIs or schema-driven development approaches.
• Exposure to cloud-native architectures and distributed system patterns in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience participating in architecture governance processes (e.g., design reviews, reference architectures, ADRs).
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).

Education

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or related field (information systems, mathematics, software engineering, etc.).

Physical Requirements/Working Conditions

• Normal Office Working Conditions.