Senior Integration Technical Architect

Job Description

Join our team as a Senior Integration Technical Architect - a key technical leadership role with hands-on responsibilities in the design, delivery, and governance of enterprise API, event, and microservices-based integration solutions. This role is pivotal in shaping the integration architecture vision, enabling modern, scalable integration capabilities, and supporting innovation across our digital ecosystem, including GenAI-driven use cases. You will work closely with enterprise architects, platform engineers, and domain teams to design and deliver robust, secure, and intelligent integration solutions.

What You'll Do

• Architect and Deliver Modern Integration Solutions: Design and implement scalable, cloud-native integration solutions using Apigee (API management), Confluent Kafka (event streaming), and container-based microservices on GCP and AWS.
• AI-Driven Integration: Lead the integration of GenAI capabilities into business workflows by designing APIs and streaming pipelines that securely connect AI models with enterprise systems and data.
• Integration Patterns & Reusability: Build and evolve reusable integration patterns, templates, and frameworks to accelerate delivery and promote platform adoption.
• Integration Strategy, Standards, and Governance: Define, socialize, and enforce enterprise-wide integration standards and best practices for APIs, events, and microservices, supporting secure and scalable architecture across the organization.
• Platform Enablement: Contribute to platform capabilities including API lifecycle automation, observability, developer self-service enablement, and CI/CD integration to improve developer experience and operational excellence.
• Hands-on Implementation: Drive proof-of-concepts and critical implementations to validate architecture decisions and enable delivery teams through hands-on technical leadership.
• Innovation and Research: Continuously evaluate emerging technologies - including GenAI, low-code integration tools, and event-driven platforms - to inform and advance platform strategy.
• Collaboration: Partner with enterprise and domain architects, business stakeholders, and product owners to align integration solutions with business objectives and enterprise architecture principles.
• Project and Delivery Leadership: Provide architecture leadership throughout the delivery lifecycle - collaborate with delivery managers to shape technical backlogs, assess feasibility, estimate complexity, and ensure architecture standards are applied during solution implementation.
• Quality Oversight: Ensure integration solutions are secure, resilient, and performant, and support observability, test automation, and fault tolerance through architectural best practices.

What You Bring

Technical Expertise

• Expert-level experience in designing and delivering integration solutions, including API management, microservices, event-driven architecture, and streaming platforms.
• Deep experience with Apigee, Confluent Kafka, and cloud-native integration using GCP, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Python, and scripting/automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools.
• Familiarity with modern event and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka Connect, Pub/Sub, WebSockets).

Integration Governance

• Proven experience defining and enforcing integration standards, reusable patterns, and best practices, enabling consistent and scalable architecture across teams and domains.

Agile and DevOps Proficiency

• Demonstrated success working in Agile delivery environments using Scrum or SAFe frameworks.
• Strong working knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines using tools like Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, and automated testing frameworks.

Security

• In-depth understanding of integration security protocols including OAuth2, mTLS, JWT, and API security best practices.
• Experience with identity and access management platforms such as ForgeRock or equivalent.

Analytical Skills

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills to assess solution alternatives and make sound technical recommendations.
• Ability to perform impact analysis and risk assessments across a distributed, interconnected system landscape.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders, influence technical direction, and facilitate collaboration across teams.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-aligned narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Leadership mindset with a passion for mentoring and guiding technical teams toward architectural excellence.

Role ID - 224

About Us

Interested in this role, but don't meet every requirement? We encourage you to apply! We know from experience that a candidate doesn't need 100% of the qualifications listed to bring incredible value to our team. We're actively seeking diverse backgrounds and perspectives to help us make insurance better. At Definity, inclusion, diversity, and equity aren't just "nice to have" - they're essential to our success.

What's in it for you?

• Hybrid work schedule for most roles
• Company share ownership program
• Pension and savings programs, with company-matched RRSP contributions
• Paid volunteer days and company matching on charitable donations
• Educational resources, tuition assistance, and paid time off to study for exams
• Focus on inclusion with employee groups, support for gender affirmation surgery, access to BIPOC counsellors, access to programs for working parents
• Wellness and recognition programs
• Discounts on products and services

Actual salary for the role may vary depending on work location of the successful candidate and other factors including but not limited to, skills, education, experience, working conditions and the local labour market. In addition to base pay, eligible employees may participate in various incentive plans which are paid out at the discretion of the company and subject to individual and company performance.

Go ahead and expect a lot - you deserve it.

It's better here - but don't take our word for it. Definity was named by Great Place to Work as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada for women, for youth, and for inclusion.

Our inclusive work environment welcomes diversity and supports accessibility. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know by contacting accessibility@definity.com.

Background checks

This role requires successful clearance of background checks (including criminal checks and leadership references).

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About the Team

Definity is the parent company to some of Canada's most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada's leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We can't do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that's collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It's better here.