Integration Architect

Starting salary for this role is £48,266 (pro rata for part-time colleagues)

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Role Purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking Integration Architect to play a pivotal role in driving enterprise-wide digital and system modernisation across the Council.

This is a strategic and hands-on role focused on designing and delivering robust, scalable integrations between critical line-of-business systems, enabling seamless data flow, process automation and improved service delivery for residents and internal teams.

You will work at the heart of our digital ecosystem connecting systems spanning Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), line of business applications, web platforms and third-party SaaS solutions. This role goes beyond point-to-point integrations, shaping how data is structured, governed and exchanged across the organisation.

You will join a central Development & Integration Team, responsible for a complex and evolving technology landscape supporting a wide and complex range of Council services.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Integration Architecture

• Design and own end-to-end integration architectures across corporate and operational systems
• Develop and promote modern integration approaches such as:
• API-first design
• Event-driven architectures
• Decoupled and microservices based integration patterns
• Define common data standards and clear data exchange agreements between systems
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, data governance and security frameworks

Technical Leadership & Standards

• Act as the technical authority for integration design and delivery
• Establish reusable integration patterns, frameworks and best practices
• Lead design assurance and provide oversight on complex integration solutions
• Support development teams in solving highly complex data and system integration challenges
• Drive consistency, scalability and resilience across the integration landscape

Delivery & Implementation Oversight

• Oversee the delivery of enterprise integrations across CRM/ERP systems, web platforms and third-party solutions
• Guide implementation across technologies such as APIs, middleware, messaging and data pipelines
• Ensure solutions are built with robust error handling, monitoring, logging and supportability
• Collaborate closely with development, data and platform teams to ensure quality delivery

Data & System Integration

• Lead the design of data integration strategies, including batch, real-time and hybrid approaches
• Enable trusted, timely and governed data flows between systems
• Support integration of finance systems and transactional platforms, ensuring accuracy, auditability and performance
• Address challenges around data quality, duplication, transformation and synchronisation

Governance & Assurance

• Define and enforce integration governance, standards and design authority processes
• Ensure compliance with security, data protection and regulatory requirements
• Manage technical risks, dependencies and integration-related technical debt
• Maintain clear documentation, including architecture artefacts and decision records

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand integration requirements
• Translate complex business processes into practical, scalable technical solutions
• Collaborate with external suppliers and partners on integration design and delivery
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Key Skills & Experience

Core Technical Expertise

• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise integrations across multiple systems and technologies.
• Deep understandingof:
• API design and management (REST, OpenAPI, SOAP where required)
• Messaging and event-driven architectures
• Data integration patterns (ETL/ELT, streaming, synchronisation)
• Experience with integration platforms such as:
• Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, Functions, Data Factory) or equivalent
• Proven experience integrating:
• CRM platforms (e.g. Dynamics 365 / Dataverse)
• Finance and transactional systems (e.g. Dynamics 365)
• Web platforms and third-party SaaS applications

Architecture & Design

• Proven ability to design scalable, resilient, distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, anti-patterns and trade-offs
• Ability to produce clear, structured architecture documentation and artefacts

Microsoft & Data Ecosystem (Desirable)

• Experience working within enterprise cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure and integration tooling (e.g. API Management, messaging, middleware, and data services) or equivalent
• Strong understanding of identity, security, and access control, including authentication, authorisation, and secure integration patterns (e.g. OAuth2, token-based security, role-based access)
• Exposure to modern data platforms and data engineering approaches, including data pipelines, warehousing, and analytics platforms (e.g. Microsoft Fabric or similar)

Professional Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to influence and lead across technical teams and suppliers
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving capability
• Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on technical involvement

Please note, this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship and we can only consider applicants with existing right to work in the UK.

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About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, world-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

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