Hybrid Integration Architect

at Aleph Group, Inc

• Job title: Integration Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, ETL, Google Cloud Platform, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Python, SOAP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Riga, Latvia

About the role

• Integration Architect at Aleph responsible for key integration strategies and architecture in digital advertising. Join a dynamic team shaping the future of advertising solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define Integration Strategy & Architecture: Own and define the organization's enterprise integration strategy, including the selection of patterns (e.g., API-led, event-driven, batch), middleware, and tools.
• Lead Technical Design and Implementation: Design and architect end-to-end integration solutions for mission-critical systems, such as synchronizing data between multiple Salesforce instances, external vendor APIs, and internal platforms.
• API Management and Governance: Implement, configure, and manage API Gateways to enforce security, rate limiting, and centralized monitoring for all internal and external APIs. Define and enforce API standards and best practices.
• Platform Expertise and Deployment: Design, build, and maintain automation workflows using Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tools (e.g., n8n, MuleSoft, or similar), ensuring high availability, performance, and monitoring.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure all integration solutions adhere to strict security protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, encryption, zero-trust principles) and data compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Performance and Optimization: Proactively monitor, tune, and optimize integration processes, data flows, and infrastructure to ensure low latency and high throughput.
• Facilitate & Mentor: Lead technical design reviews and workshops. Mentor junior and mid-level integration and software engineers on integration best practices, solution design, and security.
• Stakeholder Management: Confidently present and defend architectural decisions, trade-offs, and roadmaps to engineering teams, product owners, and senior business leadership.

Requirements

• Deep Integration Expertise: Expert-level command of Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs), including synchronous, asynchronous, and event-driven architectures.
• API Mastery: Extensive experience designing, developing, and securing RESTful and SOAP APIs. Proven experience implementing and managing API Gateways (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway).
• iPaaS Proficiency: Hands-on, production-level experience with a modern iPaaS platform like n8n, MuleSoft, Boomi, or Zapier (advanced level) for building complex system-to-system workflows, especially integrating CRM systems like Salesforce.
• Data and Systems: Deep knowledge of data transformation (ETL/ELT), data modeling, and schema management within integration contexts. Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) principles.
• Security: Proficient in implementing security standards for integrations, including OAuth, JWT, SSL/TLS, and token management.
• Software Engineering: Strong software engineering fundamentals, comfortable with scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript) for custom logic within integration platforms.
• Strategic thinking, leadership and mentoring, exceptional communication and presentation skills, ability to influence and persuade.

Benefits

• Flexible and adaptable work environment
• Growth opportunities for internal talent