Middleware Architect

Role Mission

This position is dedicated to defining, standardizing, and advancing the enterprise middleware and integration architecture to accommodate increasing digital, partner, and internal platform demands. As systems expand in scale and complexity, a unified architecture is essential to ensure service reliability, security, and reusability across multiple integrations. The role offers technical leadership to align the business needs with cloud-native, API-driven architectures while minimizing operational risks and reducing complexity.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and uphold reference architectures, design standards, and patterns tailored for middleware, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Design cloud-native, containerized services coupled with integration solutions that prioritize scalability, security, and high availability.
• Oversee API lifecycle governance including guidelines for design, versioning strategies, traffic management, and consumption frameworks.
• Partner with DevOps, security, and operations teams to guarantee system observability, automation, and readiness for production use cases.
• Provide architectural expertise through design assessments, mentoring of engineering teams, and stakeholder engagement including external vendors.

Collaborations and Stakeholders

• Work closely with middleware, integration, and application development units to set architectural standards, review technical designs, and direct implementation of cloud-native and API-focused solutions.
• Engage with DevOps, SRE, and operational teams to fulfill essential non-functional specifications such as uptime, performance, scalability, observability, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Cooperate with security, risk, and compliance groups to embed security-by-design principles and guarantee secure, governed integrations meeting audit requirements.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, and delivery managers to translate business visions into robust technical architectures aligned to strategic objectives.
• Synchronize with enterprise architecture, governance bodies, and technical review boards for consistency with overarching standards and technology roadmaps.
• Coordinate with external partners, vendors, and system integrators to ensure solution coherence, perform technical assessments, and ready integrations.

Required Experience and Profile

• Possess 8 to 12+ years overall experience in IT with strong exposure in middleware, integration, or platform engineering roles.
• Proven expertise designing and delivering cloud-native, enterprise-grade architectures for mission-critical, high-throughput systems.
• Skilled in defining and managing API-driven and microservices architectures encompassing lifecycle administration, security policies, and non-functional benchmarks.
• Hands-on experience in backend development using at least one mainstream programming language, complemented by leadership in guiding multiple technical teams.
• Experienced in steering architectural decisions, conducting rigorous design reviews, and influencing the technical strategy across multidisciplinary teams.
• Acquainted with complex, regulated, and large-scale enterprise environments where balancing delivery timelines with robustness, security, and governance is crucial.