Director, Integration Lead
Director, Integration Lead
SMBC Group- Posted 2 days ago
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Job Description
Key Responsibilities1. Integration Leadership
- Lead integration initiatives across strategic programs and technology projects.
- Provide guidance on integration approaches, patterns, standards, and best practices.
- Promote consistent, scalable, maintainable, and reusable integration solutions.
- Partner with delivery teams to identify integration requirements and considerations early in the project lifecycle.
- Drive adoption of reusable APIs, services, integration components, and common capabilities.
- Promote standardization and enterprise-wide reuse across projects and platforms.
- Develop integration playbooks, design guidelines, and implementation best practices.
- Identify opportunities to simplify integrations, improve interoperability, and enhance delivery efficiency.
- Work closely with business, application, infrastructure, security, data, and architecture teams to deliver effective integration solutions.
- Facilitate alignment on integration approaches, priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
- Coordinate dependencies across teams and support successful project execution.
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, vendors, and technology partners.
- Review integration designs and provide recommendations to improve quality, resilience, scalability, and operational supportability.
- Support implementation planning, production readiness assessments, and operational handover activities.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture and solution teams to ensure alignment with approved standards and technology direction.
- Champion modern integration approaches including API-led, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures.
- Support AI, workflow automation, cloud, and platform modernization initiatives through effective enterprise integration.
- Evaluate tools, frameworks, accelerators, and patterns that improve integration capability and delivery effectiveness.
- Drive initiatives to improve system connectivity, data exchange, and platform reuse across the technology landscape.
- Ensure integration solutions comply with security, regulatory, operational resilience, and technology risk requirements.
- Promote observability, monitoring, supportability, and resilience as core design principles.
- Support governance, audit, compliance, and control activities related to integration solutions.
- Identify and address integration-related risks, technical debt, and architecture concerns.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, system integration, middleware, architecture, or technology delivery.
- Proven experience leading complex integration initiatives across multiple applications, platforms, and business domains.
- Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise integration platform transformation programmes, including large-scale integration platforms.
- Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, and modern integration practices.
- Experience with API management platforms, integration middleware, cloud and hybrid integration environments, and enterprise application ecosystems.
- Understanding of integration considerations for AI-enabled solutions, including connectivity between AI platforms, enterprise applications, data services, and business workflows.
- Good understanding of microservices, container platforms, data integration, workflow automation, and platform modernization technologies.
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills with the ability to influence and drive outcomes across diverse teams.
- Experience working with delivery, architecture, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams in large organizations.
- Experience in Banking or Financial Services is preferred.
- Enterprise integration leadership
- API and event-driven architecture expertise
- Technology modernization mindset
- Cross-functional stakeholder management
- Governance, risk and control awareness
- Solution quality and operational resilience focus
- Strategic planning and execution
- Executive communication and influence
More Info
Key Skills
hybrid integration environments
event-driven architectures
enterprise application ecosystems
container platforms
API-led connectivity
platform modernization
enterprise integration patterns
API management platforms
workflow automation
technology delivery
AI-enabled solutions
middleware architecture
About Company
Skills:
Advanced Analytics, HV and LV distribution systems, End-to-end electrical design, Bim, Energy storage, Master planning and utility interface design, UPS and critical backup systems, Renewable energy integration, Hybrid data centre systems, Generators and emergency power infrastructure, Smart grid solutions
Skills:
Apis, Automated Testing, Kotlin, Microservices, Ios, Angular, Android, React, DevSecOps, Rest Apis, Swift, Api Management, SwiftUI, responsive web, CI CD, identity security, integration platforms, Jetpack Compose, cloud-native services, observability
Skills:
Software Development Life Cycle, Software Development, Software Engineering, Automation, Agile Methodology, Computer Science, Ai, CI CD
Skills:
Root Cause Analysis (RCA), DMP (Defectivity Monitor Program), POS (Process Objective Specification), VMP (Variability Monitoring Program), MRDA (Metro Real-time Defect Analysis), New Product Introduction (NPI), PCS, Data Analytics, Python, ocap, Process Engineering, AI-assisted tools, SPC charts, Jmp, FMEA frameworks, process integration, Advanced Packaging Technologies
Skills:
Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), BIM360, Electrical engineering principles, Energy-efficient design principles, HVAC system simulation software, Plumbing and piping design, Electrical design software, Autocad, Revit, Sustainability practices