Integration Architect

- Define enterprise integration architecture using event-driven, microservices, and real-time streaming patterns - Architect solutions using Kafka, AWS EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Kinesis Streams/Firehose, and Kafka Connect - Establish integration standards, best practices, reusable frameworks, and governance models - Design solutions that ensure high availability, scalability, observability, and security - Evaluate system integration options and recommend optimal patterns (Pub/Sub, CQRS, event sourcing, streaming analytics, request-response APIs, batch) - Lead the end-to-end delivery of integration platforms and streaming pipelines - Define event schemas, streaming topologies, routing logic, partitions, consumer groups, and throughput targets - Guide development teams in building producers, consumers, connectors, and stream processing applications - Review designs/code to ensure alignment with architecture guidelines - Work closely with cloud engineering teams on infrastructure design, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), performance tuning, and cost optimization - Implement monitoring using CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry - Enforce integration security practices: Authentication/Authorization IAM policies, Encryption at rest/in transit, Data governance & lineage - Ensure solutions meet RPO, RTO, resiliency, disaster recovery, and failover requirements - Establish observability using tracing, logging, alerting, and dashboards - Collaborate with product owners, domain architects, delivery managers, and business stakeholders - Translate business requirements into scalable integration architectures - Provide technical leadership across teams and mentor integration engineers