Integration Architect – Integration & Architecture Governance Lead

✅ Essential Requirements

• More than 8 years of experience in Integration Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Systems Integration.

• Experience designing API-First architectures.

• Experience in Event-Driven (EDA) architectures.

• Experience in Cloud environments, especially AWS.

• Knowledge of Azure (highly valued).

• Experience in API Management platforms.

• Experience working with architecture governance models.

• Experience in defining technical integration standards.

• Ability to lead architectural reviews.

• Experience collaborating with development, architecture, and security teams.

⭐ Highly Valuable

• Experience in the financial or banking sector.

• Experience in automotive.

• Knowledge of BFF platforms.

• Experience in integration between legacy systems and modern architectures.

• Knowledge of Kafka or messaging platforms.

• Experience in digital transformation and architecture modernization.

We are looking for an Integration Architect with solid experience in enterprise architecture, application integration, and technology governance to lead the definition of the integration strategy between the dealership systems and the financial systems of Volkswagen Financial Services.

The selected person will be responsible for defining the corporate integration architecture, establishing technical standards, communication models, and best practices to ensure that all integrations are scalable, reusable, secure, and aligned with the company's technology strategy.

We are not looking for a development profile, but rather an architect profile, with the ability to define solutions, establish standards, review designs, and support technical teams in the adoption of a modern architecture based on APIs, events, and automation.

The architect will work defining the way in which the dealership (Front Office) systems communicate with the internal systems of Volkswagen Financial Services (Back Office).

They will be responsible for designing and standardizing:

• Corporate APIs.

• Interfaces between applications.

• Integration services.

• Messages between systems.

• Communication rules.

• Reuse of integrations.

• Elimination of duplications.

• Performance optimization.

• Integration architecture governance.

Once the architecture and standards are defined, the development teams will be responsible for implementing the solutions following said guidelines.

Keywords: Enterprise Architecture, Integration Architect, API First, Event Driven Architecture, EDA, REST API, OpenAPI, API Management, AWS, Azure, BFF, Microservices, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Security by Design, API Governance, Architecture Governance, Enterprise Integration, Backend for Frontend, Financial Services, Volkswagen Financial Services.

🎯 Duties

• Define the corporate integration strategy between Front and Backend systems.

• Design the integration architecture based on APIs, events, and services.

• Define technical standards for integration development.

• Review functional and technical integration designs.

• Detect and eliminate duplications between interfaces and services.

• Promote the reuse of corporate APIs.

• Define communication models between applications.

• Supervise compliance with Enterprise Architecture principles.

• Lead architecture reviews and identify deviations and antipatterns.

• Drive the adoption of API-First and Event-Driven architectures.

• Collaborate with Platform, Security, and Development teams.

• Define integration models aligned with AWS and BFF platforms.

• Ensure the incorporation of Security by Design and Compliance practices from the design stage.

• Promote the automation of architectural controls within CI/CD pipelines.

• Prepare technical guides, standards, and documentation for development teams.

• Act as a technical reference for integration teams.

• Propose continuous improvements to the integration strategy and technology governance.

📍 Location: Madrid (Hybrid)
🏢 Client: Volkswagen Financial Services
📅 Initial duration: 5-6 months (with possibility of extension)
💰 Salary: Based on experience

🎯 What we are looking for

✔ Enterprise Integration Architecture

✔ API First

✔ Event Driven Architecture (EDA)

✔ REST APIs

✔ OpenAPI

✔ Contract First

✔ API Lifecycle Management

✔ API Governance

✔ API Versioning

✔ API Reuse

✔ Integration Patterns

✔ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

✔ Microsoft Azure (Valued)

✔ API Gateway

✔ Integration Platform

✔ Backend for Frontend (BFF)

✔ Microservices

✔ Distributed Architectures

✔ DevSecOps

✔ Infrastructure as Code

✔ Pipeline automation

✔ OpenAPI Linting

✔ Guardrails

✔ Automatic validations

✔ Security by Design

✔ Identity Federation

✔ OAuth2

✔ OpenID Connect

✔ Compliance

✔ Shared Responsibility Model

✔ API Security

✔ Enterprise Architecture

✔ Architecture Governance

✔ Architecture Review

✔ Technical Standards

✔ Best Practices

✔ Design Reviews

✔ Technology Roadmap

• Technical leadership.

• Ability to influence without hierarchical authority.

• Strategic thinking.

• Enterprise architecture vision.

• Orientation toward standards and quality.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to work with technical and business profiles.

• Pragmatic and results-oriented mindset.

• Ability to drive technological change.