About this role
Salary: £67,000 - 107,000 per year
Requirements
- Were looking for significant experience in integration architecture or senior integration engineering, with a track record of shaping integration strategy, standards, and platform direction through delivery.
- We require deep, hands-on expertise across REST and GraphQL APIs, event-driven messaging and streaming, API gateways, and iPaaS platforms.
- We require strong AWS integration experience, including native AWS integration services and their place in a broader open-stack architecture.
- Were looking for proven SAP integration experience, including SAP Integration Suite (formerly CPI), IDocs, BAPIs, and connecting SAP with modern digital and data platforms.
- We require a strong background in data pipeline integration, including CDC, event-to-data flows, real-time feeds, and the relationship between integration architecture and data platform design.
- We require experience making and owning technology selection decisions, evaluating platforms, building business cases, and seeing choices through to implementation.
- Were looking for strong integration security knowledge, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mutual TLS, secrets management, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS KMS.
- We require senior-level experience in complex organisations, with credibility among engineering teams and senior business and technology stakeholders, and the ability to lead without direct authority.
- We value experience in organisations with outsourced or vendor-dependent delivery models, and the ability to set standards and govern quality without directly owning implementation.
Responsibilities
- We lead the development of our integration strategy and target-state direction with Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, and programme teams.
- We evaluate integration platforms and tooling, including API management, event streaming, iPaaS, and middleware, and provide recommendations, reference architectures, and evidence for investment decisions.
- We assess our integration estate, identify fragility, duplication, and risk, and develop a phased modernisation roadmap.
- We define and maintain integration methodologies, patterns, standards, and decision frameworks, keeping our strategy aligned with emerging technologies and industry direction.
- We produce detailed integration architectures across SAP and ERP connectivity, e-commerce and digital channels, mobile platforms, data pipelines and analytics, and third-party SaaS and partner systems.
- We lead technical spikes and proof-of-concept work to validate approaches, evaluate tools, and reduce delivery risk, getting hands-on where needed.
- We define and curate integration patterns for APIs, event-driven and pub/sub systems, webhooks, messaging and streaming, batch and near-real-time data exchange, and EDI.
- We architect API gateway strategy, including lifecycle management, versioning, consumer experience, and throttling, treating APIs as products.
- We ensure integration designs address resilience, observability, scalability, fault tolerance, and operational manageability, and define patterns for real-time and near-real-time data flows, event-to-data pipelines, and data replication.
- We embed security in integration design, covering authentication, authorisation, encryption, consumer access control, secrets management, API key lifecycle, certificate rotation, and endpoint security in partnership with Information Security.
- We identify and mitigate integration-level security risks, including data leakage, misconfigured access, and injection vulnerabilities.
- We provide architecture governance and assurance so in-house and vendor-delivered designs meet agreed standards, patterns, and non-functional expectations.
- We represent integration expertise in architecture forums, design reviews, and programme assurance, offering clear technical guidance and recommendations.
- We work with Enterprise and Solution Architects, engineering teams, and delivery teams to apply and continually improve integration strategy through delivery feedback.
- We build integration capability across the engineering community through documentation, design reviews, and direct technical engagement.
Technologies
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Architect
- ERP
- GraphQL
- Support
- Mobile
- OAuth
- PLC
- REST
- SAP
- Security
- Cloud
- Kafka
- MuleSoft
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Were Compass Group UK & Ireland, part of FTSE 100 Compass Group PLC, a global food services leader whose colleagues serve customers across schools, hospitals, stadiums, offices, and visitor attractions. Our Digital & Technology team has around 260 people and is driving our AI First strategy. Were hiring a permanent, full-time Integration Architect to join this team, working at the intersection of architecture and engineering across programmes in commerce, data, and SAP.
The role is based in London or Birmingham with flexible hybrid working. We offer a competitive salary, bonus, and company benefits including 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, your birthday off and holiday purchase options, healthcare and wellbeing support, family benefits, shopping and travel discounts, fitness discounts, a pension scheme, life assurance, financial wellbeing options, professional subscriptions, ongoing training, and structured career pathways.
last updated 46 week of 2026