Lead Integration Developer

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise integration solutions.
• Define integration architecture, standards, and governance practices.
• Ensure integration solutions are resilient, maintainable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure integration solutions aligned to business and technical requirements.
• Develop integration roadmaps that support future business growth.
• Integrate business-critical systems using APIs, REST services, ETL processes, event-driven architectures, and middleware technologies.
• Work with application owners and business stakeholders to ensure seamless data exchange across platforms.
• Establish and maintain integration governance, documentation, and development standards.
• Define approaches for data mapping, transformation, monitoring, error handling, and exception management.
• Monitor and optimise integration performance, throughput, and scalability.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across integration processes and data flows.
• Evaluate integration technologies and third-party solutions.
• Manage relationships with integration vendors and platform providers where required.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Azure
• C#
• Cloud
• ETL
• GCP
• Support
• JSON
• Python
• REST
• SOAP
• SQL
• Security
• DevOps
• LESS

• Strong understanding of integration architecture principles and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience designing API-led, service-oriented integrations.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP and associated integration services.
• Understanding of data modelling, data governance, and data quality principles.
• Experience implementing integration solutions using authentication, authorisation, and encryption techniques.
• Familiarity with agile delivery.
• Experience with integration platform as a service (iPaaS), such as Workato or similar.
• Experience with API design, development, and management.
• Knowledge of REST, JSON, SOAP, and related integration standards.
• Experience with SQL and database design, development, and administration.
• Experience with ETL and ETL pipeline development.
• Experience with Python and C# development.
• Understanding of security, authentication, and authorisation mechanisms for system integrations.
• Experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimising integration platform performance.
• Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship.

We are Vital Energi, a leading provider of renewable energy infrastructure and systems to the public and private sectors. Based at our Head Office in Blackburn with support to sites, we support hospitals, universities, new build developments, towns and cities, as well as industrial and commercial clients, to decarbonise their buildings. We are delivering ground-breaking projects across the UK that support the UKs Net Zero targets, including a recently announced £1 billion low-carbon infrastructure project for Westminster. With plans to double our headcount over the coming years, new offices opening across the country, a strong investment pipeline, and expansion into markets such as industrial power generation through our Energy-from-Waste facility, this is an exciting time to join our growing team.