Integration Architect

Location: Reading, PA, United States

Position Summary:

Drive end-to-end integration solutions across Big Data platforms, data-driven web applications, and enterprise API management. Partner with architects, developers, and platform teams to design and implement reliable, scalable, and secure integrations that connect IoT/data sources, analytics platforms, and front-end experiences.

Major Responsibilities:

Integration Design & Development

•  Design and implement integration solutions using REST APIs, messaging, and event streams to connect disparate IoT/data sources with analytics and Big Data platforms.
•  Apply standard patterns (request/response, pub/sub, async messaging, orchestration, choreography) to ensure resilient and scalable integrations.
•  Build and maintain reusable integration modules, connectors, and utilities using technologies such as Kafka, gRPC, GraphQL, and API gateways.

 

Big Data & Web UI Integration

•  Architect backend integration layers that power data-driven web interfaces, ensuring seamless, governed data flow between UI components and Big Data systems.
• Design streaming and batch data pipelines; optimize schemas, topics, and event contracts in partnership with product and data architecture teams.

 

Enterprise API Management (Apigee) & API Enablement

• Support and scale enterprise Apigee adoption—configure proxies, policies, caching, quotas, security, and monitoring for high-throughput workloads.
• Establish and champion API design guidelines and governance; drive API performance, observability, and lifecycle management across teams.

 

Event-Driven & Asynchronous Systems

• Develop producers/consumers and stream-processing apps using Kafka (or similar), including schema registry usage, topic design, and consumer group strategies.
• Promote event-driven architecture (EDA) practices and integrate EDA with microservices and analytical use cases.

 

Quality, Security & Operational Excellence

• Embed security by design (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS), secrets management, and zero-trust principles into integration components.
• Implement observability (structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics); contribute to CI/CD pipelines for automated tests, security checks, and deployments.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, integration testing, and performance tuning; provide Tier-3 troubleshooting support.

 

Collaboration & Leadership

• Translate target architecture and reference models into detailed technical designs and roadmaps.
• Collaborate across cloud and on-prem environments; align with enterprise standards and data governance.
• Mentor developers and help uplift integration practices across product teams.

 

Other projects and tasks as assigned.