Summary
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Lead the evolution of enterprise middleware and integration architecture for a large-scale digital environment. You will define reference architectures and standards for APIs, microservices, middleware, and distributed systems, while balancing scalability, resilience, security, compliance, and business requirements. Strong Go backend expertise is relevant to the role.
Highlights
Provide technical leadership over enterprise integration architecture while shaping scalable, resilient, secure, cloud-native services. The role offers broad architectural ownership and cross-team influence across APIs, middleware, and distributed systems.
Description
Job Description
This role exists to define, standardize, and evolve the enterprise middleware and integration architecture to support growing digital, partner, and internal platform demands.
As systems scale in volume and complexity, the organization requires a cohesive architecture that ensures reliability, security, and reuse across services and integrations.
The role provides technical leadership to align business requirements with cloud-native, API-driven solutions while reducing operational risk and complexity.
Accountabilities: Areas this person needs to own
Enterprise middleware and integration architecture strategy.
API and microservices architecture governance.
Platform scalability, resilience, and non-functional standards.
Security, compliance, and architectural best practices.
Technical leadership and cross-team alignment.
Responsibilities:
Define and maintain reference architectures, design standards, and patterns for middleware, APIs, and distributed systems.
Architect cloud-native, containerized services and integration solutions that are scalable, secure, and highly available.
Govern API lifecycle management, including design guidelines, versioning strategies, traffic management, and consumption models.
Collaborate with DevOps, security, and operations teams to ensure observability, automation, and platform readiness for production workloads.
Provide architectural guidance, conduct design reviews, and mentor engineering teams while engaging stakeholders and vendors as required.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar, with minimally 4 years of relevant work experienceStrong proficiency in Go (Golang) or Kubernetes with at least 1 year of hands‑on experience building backend servicesSolid understanding of RESTful API design and implementationExperience with microservices architecture and service‑to‑service communicationStrong knowledge of concurrency, goroutines, and channels in GoProficiency in SQL and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)Experience with containerization (Docker) and basic Kubernetes conceptsFamiliarity with Git and modern CI/CD pipelinesUnderstanding of authentication, authorization, and security best practicesAbility to write clean, testable, and maintainable code (unit and integration testing)
Preferred / Nice‑to‑Have Qualifications
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)Knowledge of event‑driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, etc.)Experience with API gateways, service meshes, or reverse proxiesFamiliarity with observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing – Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)Prior experience supporting high‑availability or high‑throughput systemsExposure to DevOps practices and production troubleshooting
Soft Skills
Strong problem‑solving and analytical skillsAbility to work independently and collaborate in cross‑functional teamsClear communication and documentation skills Ownership mindset and attention to production quality
