Integration Architect – Digital Platforms Engineer & Delivery

Corebridge Financial • Houston, TX

2d • $122,000 - $145,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

An Integration Architect is a senior role that acts as the blueprint designer and technical leader for how the organization's various software systems, applications, and data sources connect, communicate, and exchange data efficiently and securely. This role is essential for streamlining business processes, ensuring data integrity, and enabling digital transformation initiatives. They define the strategy, patterns, and governance for data exchange to ensure system compatibility, scalability, and efficiency across the organization. The primary objective of an Integration Architect is to eliminate silos and create a unified, seamless flow of information across the enterprise's diverse and often disparate technology landscape, which may range from modern cloud services to legacy systems. They ensure the entire system is reliable, scalable, and aligned with long-term business goals.

Requirements

• Technical Acumen: Integration Patterns & Methods: Expertise in event-driven, publish-subscribe, hub-and-spoke, microservices, and data integration.
• Platforms & Tools: Proficient with iPaaS, message brokers, event routers, queues, ETL, API gateways, and cloud services (AWS).
• APIs: Strong skills in API design, management, and development (REST, SOAP).
• Data & Databases: Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, data warehousing, and data transformation.
• Programming: Knowledge of languages like Java, JavaScript for custom solutions.
• DevOps/Agile: CI/CD, automation, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Security: Data security, privacy, and compliance in integrations.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Proficiency: Competency in leveraging cloud-native platforms, managing API gateways, service meshes and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation.
• Performance Engineering: Skill in defining non-functional requirements (NFRs) and implementing strategies for optimization, caching, throughput, ordering rate limiting, and overall system reliability and scalability.
• Integration Expertise: The ability to design solutions that seamlessly integrate diverse software systems, applications, databases, and platforms.
• Strategic Positioning: The capability to define a clear vision, establish enterprise-wide standards, and ensure governance throughout the Integration journey.
• Proficiency in managing the entire Integration process, from planning and design reviews through testing and deployment.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with product owners, developers, and stakeholders, providing technical leadership and mentorship while clearly articulating complex architectural decisions to non-technical audiences.
• The ability to define strategies for telemetry, monitoring and usage, and ensuring comprehensive, high-quality documentation for internal and external developers.
• Partnership: Effectively partners with business functions and the enterprise to leverage economies of scale meeting a complex set of needs and objectives through Integration.
• Cultural Adaptability: Values and consider the perspectives of diverse parties in a global context. A role model and organizational leader.
• Talent Cultivation: Is a talent magnet and has proven skills in nurturing and developing talent.
• Critical Thinking: Able to identify, anticipate and prevent businesses problems and match an appropriate solution; Demonstrates intellectual curiosity identifying or anticipating issues within the client base and the ability to match an optimal API solution.
• Decision Quality / Risk Mindset: Demonstrates good judgement and knows when to involve others; Uses data, logic, analysis, and experience to make evidence-based decisions.
• Learning Agility: Demonstrates a progressive growth mindset through an ability and willingness to learn from experiences and new situations; Applies past experience to proactively identify opportunities.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or proven record of experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Integration design, architecture, and development.
• Strong expertise with REST, GraphQL, event-driven APIs, and microservices architectures.
• An understanding of the financial services industry.
• Hands-on experience with designing secure Integrations using authentication/authorization frameworks.
• Proven ability to integrate APIs across diverse applications, software systems, and data sources.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong understanding of session management, token strategies, and secure communication protocols.
• JavaScript, Java knowledge.
• Experience with API gateways (Amazon API Gateway), service meshes (Istio, VPC Lattice), Queues (SQS, Amazon MQ – Rabbit MQ/Apache Active MQ), Event Buses, Routers and Pipes (Amazon EventBridge), Workflows (AWS Step Functions), Serverless Functions (AWS Lambda) and Streaming Platforms (Kafka, Kinesis).
• Experience with MCP.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and cloud-native deployment models.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (AWS CloudWatch / CloudTrail, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Deep knowledge of Amazon API Gateway, Istio, VPC Lattice, SQS, Amazon MQ – Rabbit MQ/Apache Active MQ, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Kafka, Kinesis.
• Knowledge of MCP.
• Certification in Cloud (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Integration Strategy & Planning: Define the enterprise-wide integration strategy, roadmap, principles to alignment with business objectives and technology standards.
• Requirements Analysis: Work closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, and product owners to gather, analyze, and translate complex business requirements into robust technical integration specifications.
• Design and Architecture: Architect high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant integration solutions using appropriate patterns (e.g., API-first, event-driven, batch, point-to-point) and technologies such as APIs, microservices, Enterprise Service Buses (ESB), message queues, and cloud integration platforms (iPaaS).
• Governance and Standards: Establish and enforce integration standards, best practices, and governance processes to ensure consistency, quality, security, and compliance across projects.
• Technology Selection & Implementation: Select and implement appropriate integration technologies, including middleware, API gateways, and cloud-based platforms, providing guidance on configuration and deployment.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership to development teams, conduct code and design reviews, and mentor junior developers on best practices and standards.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive architecture documentation, including high-level and detailed diagrams, data flow models, technical specifications, and operating guidelines.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Oversee integration testing (unit, system, UAT) and coordinate with QA teams to ensure solutions meet quality, compliance, and security standards.
• Monitoring & Optimization: Monitor the health, performance, and capacity of existing integrations, troubleshoot issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement performance tuning strategies.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Work closely with product owners, developers, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, communicate the Integration value proposition.
• Integration: Oversee the design of solutions that integrate diverse software systems, applications, databases, and cloud-native platforms.
• Performance & Scalability: Define non-functional requirements and implement strategies for performance optimization, caching, rate limiting, throughput, ordering and ensuring system reliability.
• Tools & Infrastructure: Select and leverage API gateways (Amazon API Gateway), service meshes (Istio, VPC Lattice), Queues (SQS, Amazon MQ – Rabbit MQ/Apache Active MQ), Event Buses, Routers and Pipes (Amazon EventBridge), Workflows (AWS Step Functions), Serverless Functions (AWS Lambda) and Streaming Platforms (Kafka, Kinesis).

Benefits

• Health and Wellness: We offer a range of medical, dental and vision insurance plans, as well as mental health support and wellness initiatives to promote overall well-being.
• Retirement Savings: We offer retirement benefits options, which vary by location. In the U.S., our competitive 401(k) Plan offers a generous dollar-for-dollar Company matching contribution of up to 6% of eligible pay and a Company contribution equal to 3% of eligible pay (subject to annual IRS limits and Plan terms). These Company contributions vest immediately.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counseling services and resources are available to all employees.
• Matching charitable donations: Corebridge matches donations to tax-exempt organizations 1:1, up to $5,000.
• Volunteer Time Off: Employees may use up to 16 volunteer hours annually to support activities that enhance and serve communities where employees live and work.
• Paid Time Off: Eligible employees start off with at least 24 Paid Time Off (PTO) days so they can take time off for themselves and their families when they need it.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level