We want to be upfront about what this role is — and what it is not.
This is not a solution architect role with integration as one of many responsibilities. This is a pure integration architecture seat inside a large, complex organisation that needs someone whose entire professional identity is enterprise integration. If that is you, read on.
The Opportunity
We are working exclusively with a well-established, large-scale retail and distribution business to appoint a Senior Integration Architect into their growing architecture function. This business runs a significant technology ecosystem — ERP, CRM, eCommerce, supply chain, data platforms — and needs someone who can own, govern, and evolve the integration layer that connects it all. On Azure. At scale. Across cloud and hybrid environments.
This is a hands‐on technical leadership role. You will define integration standards, produce HLD/LLD specifications, shape event-driven architecture, govern API design across the organisation, and guide engineering teams through real delivery — not sit at a governance desk removed from execution.
What Pure Integration Architecture Looks Like in This Role
This role is not for someone who has touched integration as part of a broader solution architecture career. The hiring manager is specifically looking for someone for whom integration is the primary specialism — someone who has spent the majority of their career owning the integration layer of complex enterprise environments.
In practice that means:
- You have defined and owned enterprise integration strategy, not contributed to it
- You write the integration specs and HLD/LLD artefacts — you do not review what others have written
- You have governed API standards across an organisation, not just designed APIs within a project
- You have set integration patterns and ensured engineering teams follow them
- Azure Integration Services is your primary delivery platform, not one of several tools you have used
What We Are Looking For
Deep, hands‐on experience with Microsoft Azure Integration Services — Logic Apps, APIM, Service Bus, Event Grid, Azure Functions, ADF — as your core delivery platform
A career history in enterprise integration architecture, not solution architecture with integration experience
Strong API design and governance ownership — REST, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, API lifecycle management
Event-driven and microservices architecture you have defined and governed end-to-end
IaC experience — Terraform or Bicep — in real delivery contexts
The ability to produce detailed technical specifications that engineering teams can build from
Highly Regarded
- Experience in retail, distribution, or supply chain environments
- Azure certifications — Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Integration Services
- Experience migrating legacy integration platforms to cloud-native Azure patterns
- Exposure to AKS and containerised integration workloads
Culture and Fit
This team values people who get things done. They are building a genuine integration capability for the long term and need an architect who wants to own that journey — not pass through it. Collaboration, pragmatism, and technical craft matter here.
Senior Integration Architect in Melbourne employer: Brennan Sourcing
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