Lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise integration solutions across digital channels, core banking platforms, internal applications, and third-party systems. Provide strong technical expertise in Azure API Management (APIM) , including API onboarding, configuration, lifecycle management, security policies, authentication, authorization, throttling, monitoring, versioning, and API exposure management. Design and implement API-led integration architectures using REST and SOAP APIs, API gateways, messaging frameworks, and industry-standard integration patterns. Define and drive the enterprise integration strategy , integration standards, architecture principles, and governance frameworks in alignment with enterprise architecture and information security requirements. Establish and enforce API governance and lifecycle management practices , ensuring consistency, security, scalability, and maintainability across integration services. Lead complex integration deliveries involving multiple technology teams, vendors, architects, and business stakeholders , ensuring successful delivery within agreed timelines and quality standards. Collaborate with solution architects, developers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust and scalable integration solutions . Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting and resolving complex integration and API issues , ensuring high availability, reliability, performance, and security of integration services. Ensure APIs and integration services comply with security standards, authentication mechanisms, data protection requirements, and enterprise technology policies . Develop and maintain integration architecture documentation, API standards, technical specifications, and governance guidelines. Evaluate emerging cloud integration technologies and API management capabilities and recommend improvements to the enterprise integration landscape. Good understanding of cloud-based integration patterns, API security standards, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern enterprise integration frameworks . Experience working within financial services or banking environments is highly desirable, particularly with core banking, digital banking, and third-party ecosystem integrations.

Desired Candidate Profile

Good understanding of cloud-based integration patterns, API security standards, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern enterprise integration frameworks . Experience working within financial services or banking environments is highly desirable, particularly with core banking, digital banking, and third-party ecosystem integrations.