Lead Integration Engineer

Salary: £90,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience in API and integration development, including the design and implementation of robust integration services.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, including event publication, consumption and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Experience in system integration design, with an understanding of scalable, resilient and loosely coupled architectures.
• Experience with API management, interface contracts, schemas and service interoperability.
• Knowledge of integration patterns, messaging and distributed systems.
• Experience in operational support, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution.
• Experience designing effective error handling, retry and replay mechanisms.
• Experience working across complex technology estates with multiple source and consuming systems.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles, including clean code, testing, version control and CI/CD.
• Ability to produce technical documentation and communicate complex integration concepts to a range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient and maintainable system integrations.
• Define and promote integration patterns, standards and best practices across our technology estate.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to other integration engineers and delivery teams.
• Design and support API-led and event-driven integration architectures.
• Develop and maintain APIs, interfaces and integration services connecting source systems, the Accounts platform and downstream consumers.
• Own and govern schemas, interface contracts and integration specifications, ensuring consistency and interoperability.
• Design and implement event publication and consumption mechanisms.
• Ensure integrations are designed with appropriate resilience, scalability, security, observability and performance in mind.
• Establish effective approaches to error handling, retry, replay, monitoring and operational recovery.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex integration issues across multiple systems and teams.
• Work closely with architects, developers, product owners and technical stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into effective integration solutions.
• Contribute to technical strategy, architectural decisions and the continuous improvement of our integration capability.
• Support knowledge sharing, technical mentoring and the development of engineering standards and practices.

Technologies:

• API
• CI/CD
• Support
• Security

More:

We are AND Digital, a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and closing the digital skills gap. Since 2014, we have helped organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams, working through close relationships with our offices, or Clubs, so our partners are prioritised by a regional team close to them. We have grown organically to more than 1,300 people across the UK and Europe, with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years. This is a Lead Integration Engineer role on a 12-month FTC, where we offer a blended working model across home, our clubhouse, client sites and other locations, plus a dedicated career scrum team, an annual training and upskilling budget with allocated study days, monthly and quarterly team socials, and a safe environment where you can be yourself and challenge yourself. We are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities.

last updated 35 week of 2026