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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Integration Architect - **Company:** Harvey Nash - **Location:** Edinburgh, UK - **Salary:** £33,000.0 - £65,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Applications Architecture, Application Integration Architecture, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Data Integration, Identity and Access Management, Management of Software Versions, Web Services, Enterprise Software Applications, Boomi, HybridCloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Event Driven Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Data Management, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Api Management, Serverless Computing, Microservices - **Published:** September 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5886016031 ## About the Role * Proven experience operating as an Integration Architect or in an equivalent specialist architecture role within a large and complex organisation. * Extensive experience designing, implementing, governing, and supporting enterprise integration solutions using Boomi, including API Management, Integration, Master Data Management, and Event Streams capabilities. * Strong knowledge of application architecture and enterprise application landscapes, including SaaS, COTS, and bespoke applications. * Demonstrable experience defining integration standards, reference architectures, design principles, and technical roadmaps. * Experience leading architectural governance activities and providing technical assurance through Architecture Review Boards or equivalent governance forums. * Proven ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders, suppliers, delivery teams, and executive audiences, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes. * Experience working within Agile and multidisciplinary delivery environments. * Experience working in large public sector organisations with an understanding of government digital service standards and governance processes. * Expert knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture, with practical experience of integration and API services including API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Step Functions, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC networking, and security controls. * Demonstrable experience defining and governing API strategies, including REST APIs, event-driven APIs, API lifecycle management, security standards, versioning, and governance models. * Strong understanding of integration architecture patterns and their appropriate application, including point-to-point integration, hub-and-spoke, event-driven architecture, publish-subscribe, microservices integration, data integration and synchronisation patterns, and hybrid cloud integration. * Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. ## Description * Lead the design and assurance of system-to-system integrations, ensuring consistent, reusable, and secure connectivity across the technology estate. * Define, document, and maintain integration architecture standards, patterns, and reference models, with a focus on API-led and event-driven integration. * Design and assure integrations deployed within AWS and Boomi, ensuring effective use of cloud-native services and delivering robust API management, messaging, orchestration, and security requirements for resilience. * Define and govern API connectivity models, including internal, external, and 3rd-party integrations, while ensuring appropriate versioning, documentation, and lifecycle management. * Ensure integrations meet non-functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency in line with public sector standards. * Provide architectural assurance and challenge for integration designs presented through formal governance and review processes. * Work collaboratively with Technical Architects, delivery teams, platform teams, security specialists, and external suppliers to deliver agreed integration architectures. * Support delivery teams during build and implementation phases by providing hands-on architectural guidance and resolving complex integration issues. Technologies: * API * AWS * Lambda * Architect * Cloud * CloudWatch * IAM * Support * REST * Security * microservices, We are offering an 11-month contract for an Integration Architect role based in Edinburgh on a hybrid working basis, starting ASAP, with a day rate of £679. The role sits inside IR35 and requires a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland, or willingness to apply for one. 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