Expert Integration Engineer

Role Overview

Expert Integration Engineer at TAWANTECH. The role leads enterprise integration architecture, design, and governance across the technology estate, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity between applications, platforms, partners, and external services.

Role Purpose

To design and govern complex enterprise integration solutions, establishing technical authority for integration standards, patterns, and practices while leading the technical implementation of critical system integrations and mentoring the integration engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Design complex integration architectures, APIs, interfaces, and messaging solutions.
• Design synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, and API-based integration solutions.
• Define integration standards, patterns, protocols, and engineering practices.
• Review integration designs and implementations for architectural compliance.

Enterprise Integration Stack

• Build and govern integrations on the enterprise integration stack (IBM ACE/API Connect, MQ, Kafka).
• Act as senior technical authority for enterprise integration across the technology estate.

API Lifecycle Management

• Own API lifecycle management, including versioning, gateway policies, and consumer onboarding.

Security & Compliance

• Apply security controls for partner connectivity, including mTLS, certificate management, encryption, and secure key handling.
• Ensure integrations meet security, performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
• Ensure integrations satisfy regulatory, audit, and change-governance requirements.

Operations & Optimization

• Troubleshoot complex integration and production issues across system boundaries.
• Optimize integration performance, reliability, monitoring, error handling, and reconciliation.

Strategic Oversight

• Lead technical implementation of critical system integrations with partners, schemes, and internal platforms.
• Identify integration risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and recommend improvements.
• Mentor integration engineers and contribute to enterprise integration architecture initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master's preferred.
• 5+ years in enterprise integration, including senior technical ownership.
• Deep expertise in IBM integration tooling (ACE, API Connect, MQ, DataPower) and event streaming (Kafka).
• Payments experience with ISO 8583, ISO 20022, or scheme integrations (good to have).
• Professional Certificates.

Skills & Competencies

• API design.
• Security protocols (OAuth2, mTLS).
• Message-level security.