Application and Integration Architect – REMOTE

Project Background
The assignment concerns the design and implementation of enterprise-level application and integration architecture, focusing on systems integration at data and API level. The role supports large-scale IT ecosystems, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical solutions, and contributing to integration platforms, enterprise architecture practices, and digital transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Set standards in scope of design, development, quality, and testing
• Design and communicate enterprise-wide database architectures
• Design database architectures, schemas, analytics platforms, BI services, and data governance solutions
• Elicit business needs and analyse requirements
• Transform business, user, and technical needs into architectural solutions
• Map business goals, project benefits, priorities, and system features
• Analyse existing systems, applications, and services
• Identify and evaluate solution options
• Maintain and track architecture across the system lifecycle
• Estimate and size infrastructure in line with business and system requirements
• Contribute to system design, testing, quality assurance, and change management
• Prepare system documentation and deliver presentations
• Lead development teams and development processes
• Select and evaluate technologies
• Collect and interpret system metrics
• Optimise systems in terms of performance, security, and quality
• Contribute to enterprise architecture repository and manage architectural artefacts

Required Profile & Qualifications

• Proven experience as key architect in at least one enterprise-wide integration platform deployment
• Minimum 2 years’ experience as an application architect, ideally in public sector or EU environments
• Expertise in systems integration at data and API level
• Expertise in enterprise integration platforms, connectors, flows, and service bus solutions
• Strong capabilities in capacity planning and security of integration platforms
• Good knowledge of integration patterns, standards, and models
• Familiarity with serverless and containerised environments across cloud and on-premises
• Strong knowledge of integration technologies such as Tibco, Mulesoft, SOA, middleware, databases, and application servers
• Knowledge of UML-based system design
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices
• Strong ability to align technical solutions with business needs
• Proficiency in modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or Aris Architect
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Strong understanding of hybrid system integration
• Excellent communication, documentation, problem-solving, and leadership skills

Education & Experience
University degree (minimum Level 7)
Minimum 8 years of relevant IT professional experience
Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role

Technical Knowledge
Mandatory:

• Enterprise application and integration architecture
• API and data integration design
• Integration platforms (e.g. Tibco, Mulesoft, SOA)
• UML modelling and architecture design tools
• Cloud and hybrid integration environments
• DevSecOps principles
• Architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman)

Desirable:

• Experience with Archimate modelling
• Experience in large-scale IT systems managing distributed operational resources

Language
Working knowledge of English (B2 or higher)

Engagement Terms
Freelance-based engagement
Full-time (40 hours/week), flexible hours negotiable
Initial 220 working days, with potential extensions up to a total of 990 days over 4.5 years

Service delivery: REMOTE