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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Azure Integration & Automation Manager - **Company:** Reed - **Location:** Watford, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Integration Architecture, Management of Software Versions, Event Driven Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Cloud Integration, Api Design, Api Management - **Published:** May 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/azure-integration-amp-automation-manager-watford-hertfordshire/2782953886-2/ ## About the Role * Proven experience delivering enterprise Azure integration and automation services * Strong experience with Azure API Management, API lifecycle management, and secure API design. * Good understanding of Azure API-led, composable, and event-driven architecture at enterprise scale. * Comfortable operating as a hands-on technical SME while engaging credibly with architects, engineers, vendors, and senior stakeholders. * Vendor and contract management capability, focused on value, performance, and continuous improvement. * Ability to manage an API and integration roadmap as a product, informed by demand, feedback, and data. * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders. * Confident influencing delivery priorities, design decisions, and architectural standards across teams. ## Description A new excellent permanent role for an experience Azure Integration & Automation Manager to lead Integration and API capability, designing, delivering, and scaling a modern, API-led integration service that enhances business agility, digital automation, and composable architecture across a leading enterprise construction, engineering business. This role is pivotal in bridging architecture and delivery, combining hands-on technical leadership with service ownership, vendor management, and product-style roadmap management. Day-to-day of the role: * Lead Enterprise Integration & API Strategy: + Own and evolve the Integration & API Management strategy, aligned with digital and business priorities. + Define and promote a composable API architecture, ensuring APIs are designed around business capabilities. + Act as the design authority for API Management, including API lifecycle, security, versioning, governance, and reuse. * Be the Organisation's API & Integration Expert: + Serve as the go-to authority on Azure API Management, API design standards, and enterprise integration patterns. + Lead API design reviews and ensure consistent adoption of API-first and event-driven patterns. + Drive adoption of reusable APIs to reduce point-to-point integrations and accelerate delivery. * Deliver Integration as a Scalable Service: + Run Integration & Automation as a product-led service, with a clear roadmap, service definition, and engagement model. + Operate and evolve a factory delivery model, supporting predictable, repeatable integration and automation delivery. * Lead People and Partners: + Manage and develop a specialist Automation / Integration Engineer, setting technical direction and quality standards. + Lead service escalations and delivery risks where integration is business critical. ## Related Videos - [From APIs to MCP: Enterprise Governance, Registry, and Controls](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100336-from-apis-to-mcp-enterprise-governance-registry-and-controls) - [Why make use of an integration platform in today's software developments and infrastructure?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/758-why-make-use-of-an-integration-platform-in-today-s-software-developments-and-infrastructure) - [API Design - Getting Started](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/33-api-design-getting-started) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Improving Developer Happiness with GitOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/54-improving-developer-happiness-with-gitops) - [Say goodbye to building boring APIs with Azure Data API Builder](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1194-say-goodbye-to-building-boring-apis-with-azure-data-api-builder) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 164: AI Agents, AI Blindspots and MCP security problems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/578-dev-digest-164-ai-agents-ai-blindspots-and-mcp-security-problems) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)