Integration Architect

Penske•Reading, PA

About The Position

Drive end-to-end integration solutions across Big Data platforms, data-driven web applications, and enterprise API management. Partner with architects, developers, and platform teams to design and implement reliable, scalable, and secure integrations that connect IoT/data sources, analytics platforms, and front-end experiences.

Requirements

REST APIs
Messaging
Event Streams
Kafka
gRPC
GraphQL
API Gateways
Apigee
OAuth2
JWT
mTLS

Responsibilities

Design and implement integration solutions using REST APIs, messaging, and event streams to connect disparate IoT/data sources with analytics and Big Data platforms.
Apply standard patterns (request/response, pub/sub, async messaging, orchestration, choreography) to ensure resilient and scalable integrations.
Build and maintain reusable integration modules, connectors, and utilities using technologies such as Kafka, gRPC, GraphQL, and API gateways.
Architect backend integration layers that power data-driven web interfaces, ensuring seamless, governed data flow between UI components and Big Data systems.
Design streaming and batch data pipelines; optimize schemas, topics, and event contracts in partnership with product and data architecture teams.
Support and scale enterprise Apigee adoption—configure proxies, policies, caching, quotas, security, and monitoring for high-throughput workloads.
Establish and champion API design guidelines and governance; drive API performance, observability, and lifecycle management across teams.
Develop producers/consumers and stream-processing apps using Kafka (or similar), including schema registry usage, topic design, and consumer group strategies.
Promote event-driven architecture (EDA) practices and integrate EDA with microservices and analytical use cases.
Embed security by design (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS), secrets management, and zero-trust principles into integration components.
Implement observability (structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics); contribute to CI/CD pipelines for automated tests, security checks, and deployments.
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, integration testing, and performance tuning; provide Tier-3 troubleshooting support.
Translate target architecture and reference models into detailed technical designs and roadmaps.
Collaborate across cloud and on-prem environments; align with enterprise standards and data governance.
Mentor developers and help uplift integration practices across product teams.
Other projects and tasks as assigned.