The **Integration Architect** shapes the strategy, standards, target-state architecture, and governance that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and reusable integration across the US Segment.

This role provides architectural leadership across APIs, services, events, messaging, streaming, batch, and hybrid integration, helping teams connect systems and exchange data consistently while reducing duplication and technical debt.

Working within the Domain Architecture team, you will establish reusable architecture patterns, guide critical design decisions, improve visibility across the integration landscape, and help delivery teams adopt interoperable, cloud-aligned integration solutions.

This is an opportunity to influence integration strategy and modernization across a complex technology environment while remaining closely connected to practical solution design and delivery outcomes. **Position Responsibilities:** Define and evolve the **Integration Domain strategy, principles, standards, guardrails, reference architectures, and target-state patterns** , aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture direction.

Develop multi-year integration roadmaps that connect business strategy, modernization priorities, technology investments, and architecture direction.

Design and guide enterprise integration solutions spanning **APIs and services, event-driven and batch integration, messaging and streaming, cloud and SaaS platforms, legacy modernization, data integration, and external partner connectivity** .

Establish and maintain a catalogue of reusable integration patterns, including synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven, streaming, and batch patterns, with clear guidance on their appropriate use.

Promote modern integration approaches, including **API-first, event-driven, and cloud-native patterns** , with security, automation, operational resilience, and observability built into solution design.

Maintain architecture visibility across critical integration interfaces, dependencies, technology lifecycles, and technical debt, using **LeanIX or other approved enterprise repositories** where appropriate.

Provide architecture governance by reviewing solution designs, documenting Architecture Decision Records, assessing exceptions, and guiding solution architects and delivery teams toward consistent architecture outcomes.

Evaluate emerging integration technologies, platforms, vendor solutions, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities, providing recommendations and identifying opportunities for modernization.

Partner across application, data, security, cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, solution architecture, technology delivery, and business teams to resolve cross-domain dependencies and translate strategic priorities into executable integration capabilities.

Conduct architecture quality reviews, provide reusable guidance and mentoring, and clearly communicate complex integration decisions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. **Required Qualifications:** Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade integration solutions, typically gained through **8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent demonstrated expertise** .

Progressive experience in **integration, solution, or domain architecture** , including responsibility for architecture strategies, roadmaps, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.

Experience with one or more enterprise integration platforms or services, such as **Mule

Soft, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Informatica IICS,



enterprise service bus technologies, Azure Data Factory, or comparable technologies** .

Demonstrated experience designing enterprise integration solutions using a combination of **APIs and services, event-driven architecture, messaging, streaming, batch, middleware, and cloud integration patterns** .

Strong knowledge of **API architecture, management, and governance; REST and SOAP services; API contracts; asynchronous messaging and publish-subscribe patterns; microservices; and common interoperability standards** .

Working knowledge of common integration security patterns and standards, including technologies such as **OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML** .

Experience assessing integration platforms and capabilities, identifying gaps and technical debt, and translating findings into target-state architectures and practical, sequenced modernization roadmaps.

Experience reviewing solution designs, documenting architecture decisions, and guiding teams through architecture standards, exceptions, and remediation.

Knowledge of cloud and hybrid integration architecture and related delivery considerations, including **CI/CD, security, resilience, monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability** .

Solid written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear architecture artifacts and explain complex technical decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. **Preferred Qualifications:** Familiarity with **Dev

SecOps, Infrastructure as Code, containers, Kubernetes, scripting, automation, and platform engineering practices** .

Experience modernizing legacy integration environments and introducing **API-first, event-driven, cloud-native, automation-enabled, or operationally resilient integration patterns** .

Experience in one or more additional integration areas, such as **mainframe, COTS or SaaS integration, external partner or B2B connectivity, data integration, or AI-enabled integration patterns** .

Experience working in a large, complex, or highly regulated organization, such as **financial services, insurance, banking, wealth management, retirement, or another regulated industry** .

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, **or equivalent practical experience** . **When You Join Our Team:** We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see. _If you are applying to this role in US, please note the salary range is $107,450 to $199,550 USD.

Additionally, employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance_ .

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📌 Integration Architect (Toronto)
🏢 Manulife
📍 Toronto