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# Software Engineering Manager - Integration

- **Company:** Jobtailor
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Middleware, IBM WebSphere MQ, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Azure Service Bus, Microsoft Power Automate, Technical Debt, Serverless Computing, Mulesoft
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815178004-software-engineering-manager--integration

## About the Role

* Experienced engineering leader with a background in integration or platform engineering.
 * Hands-on experience with enterprise messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus or similar.
 * Strong knowledge of integration middleware including ACE, MuleSoft, Azure Functions or Logic Apps.
 * Proven track record leading teams through platform modernisation or legacy-to-cloud transformation.
 * Strong understanding of reliability engineering, including SLOs, observability, incident management and operational excellence.
 * Ability to balance operational stability with transformation in a complex, high-volume environment.
 * Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
 * A servant-leadership mindset, focused on enabling teams and owning outcomes.
 * Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, from architecture discussions to incident support.

## Description

Responsibilities

 * Being accountable for engineering excellence across integration teams, from technical direction to operational performance and service reliability.
 * Leading and developing engineers, cultivating ownership, accountability and a strong engineering culture.
 * Defining the future integration platform architecture and roadmap in partnership with Principal Engineers and Architects.
 * Building platform capabilities, including self-service integration patterns and reusable components to enable product teams.
 * Maintaining operational excellence across the messaging backbone, ensuring stability, resilience and fast incident resolution.
 * Driving improvements in reliability, reducing incident rates, mean time to resolution and operational burden.
 * Partnering with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency in patterns, standards and ways of working.
 * Owning vendor relationships and third-party delivery, focusing on outcomes and platform performance.
 * Balancing priorities across operational stability, platform modernisation and technical debt reduction.

Requirements

 * Experienced engineering leader with a background in integration or platform engineering.
 * Hands-on experience with enterprise messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus or similar.
 * Strong knowledge of integration middleware including ACE, MuleSoft, Azure Functions or Logic Apps.
 * Proven track record leading teams through platform modernisation or legacy-to-cloud transformation.
 * Strong understanding of reliability engineering, including SLOs, observability, incident management and operational excellence.
 * Ability to balance operational stability with transformation in a complex, high-volume environment.
 * Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
 * A servant-leadership mindset, focused on enabling teams and owning outcomes.
 * Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, from architecture discussions to incident support.


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