Integration Architect _1915

Integration Architecture Lead Insurance (1315+ years) The Integration Architecture Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and leading the endtoend enterprise integration architecture across multiple insurance Lines of Business, ensuring seamless interoperability between core platforms, finance systems, customerfacing applications, data ecosystems, and external partner services under the guidance of Enterprise Architecture. The role provides architectural leadership across agile delivery teams, vendor partners, and enterprise stakeholders, ensuring that all integration solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. Key objectives include: Leading strategic integrations with core systems including GL/Finance, CRM, Payment Gateway/Payment Factory, Fraud systems, Master Data Management, Input/Output Management Systems, Document Management, and Data Lakehouse platforms. Collaborating with business, operations, security, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure endtoend alignment of technology decisions with business goals. Designing and driving APIfirst and eventdriven integration patterns across internal platforms and external ecosystems with the supports from respective platform owners and providers. Maintaining enterprisegrade architectural artefacts such as integration blueprints, canonical models, interface specifications, event models, sequence diagrams, and architectural decision records.Ensuring integration alignment with business processes across all Lines of Business, including new business, underwriting, policy lifecycle, collections, renewals, claims, and financial posting. Embedding harmonization, maintainability, reliability, performance, observability, auditability, and regulatory compliance into all integration designs and implementations. oGuiding engineering leads, development teams, and vendors to ensure consistent implementation of integration patterns, coding standards, nonfunctional requirements, and architectural governance. Qualification & Experience Qualification: Bachelor in Engineering/MCA/M.sc/ M.S./ MBA in Systems, IT or Insurance or Finance Technical: A senior technology leader (13-15+ years) with a proven track record of conceptualizing, designing, and delivering enterprisescale integration architectures in large, complex insurance or financialservices organizations. Deep experience defining and governing enterprise-wide integration architectures, ensuring secure, scalable, highperforming connectivity across policy, underwriting, claims, billing, customer, partner, and finance systems. Demonstrated success in leading integration modernization programs using APIfirst, microservicesbased, and eventdriven patterns, establishing reusable services, canonical models, and shared integration assets across multiple Lines of Business. Extensive handson expertise designing and implementing integrations using: o REST APIs, JSON, XML. Agentic and MCP knowledge are bonus. o Event streaming platforms (Kafka or equivalent) o Messaging protocols and standards (AMQP, JMS) o API gateways and cloudnative integration services (AWS, Azure) Strong delivery experience integrating with core insurance platforms across multiple domains (policy administration, claims, underwriting, billing, collections, renewals, customer servicing). Successful track record designing and delivering highvolume, missioncritical integrations that support realtime transactions, straightthrough processing, and batchbased enterprise workflows. Proven ability to design and govern integrations with: GL / Finance Systems (SAP, Oracle Financials, or equivalent) CRM platforms (customer onboarding, sales, retention journeys) Payment Gateway / Payment Factory solutionsFraud management, screening, risk scoring systemsMaster Data Management (MDM) platforms Input/Output Management Systems Document Management & Customer Communication platforms Data Lakehouse or modern analytics ecosystems Strong foundation in Javabased technology stacks or equivalent enterprise application platforms, with the ability to guide engineering teams in selecting appropriate frameworks and technologies for integration workloads. Solid understanding of non-functional architecture and the ability to design for: o security, identity, encryption, API protection o resilience, high availability, disaster recovery o performance, throughput, low-latency processing o observability, monitoring, logging, alerting Demonstrated experience operationalizing architectural governance in a global enterprise environment, ensuring compliance with standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements while enabling agility via federated delivery teams. Proven leadership capability guiding engineering leads, solution designers, platform teams, and vendor partners to deliver consistent, highquality, bestpractice integration implementations. .