
Integration Architect, VP
- Burlington, ON
- $140,000-222,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Architect and design integration patterns and flows across Alpha Platform, external vendors and customer solutions
- Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and reusable design patterns, with a focus on enterprise integration patterns.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, security teams, customers and external vendors
- Ensure the platform meets enterprise-grade SLAs for performance, security, availability, and compliance (e.g., SOC2, PCI-DSS)
- Provide architectural direction across development teams and lead technical design reviews.
- Participate in strategic planning, technical roadmap development, and system architecture reviews.
- Drive proof-of-concepts and prototyping of innovative integration solutions and tools
- Lead the modernization of legacy trading systems, migrating from monolithic architectures to modular, cloud-native services that improve scalability, latency, and fault tolerance. Ensure continuity of business logic while modernizing core infrastructure.
- Lead transition from batch driven processes to real-time data streaming
- Leverage AI and machine learning tools to drive platform innovation, automate operations, and enhance developer productivity.
- Identify opportunities to improve product integration flows
- Stay current with industry best practices and integration frameworks; evaluate emerging tools for strategic benefit.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in an integration architecture role.
- Proven track record designing and architecting cloud native enterprise integration solutions
- Strong object-oriented programming skills in Java or C#
- Hands-on experience with integration frameworks and platforms (Apache Camel, Spring Integration / Cloud Stream, MuleSoft Anypoint, Boomi, WSO2)
- Deep understanding of cloud-native and system integration design patterns, with the ability to apply patterns to build scalable, maintainable, and secure cloud applications
- In-depth knowledge of event-driven architecture and real-time data streaming such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Azure Event Hubs
- Strong experience with modern ETL/ELT tools and data integration platforms, including: Talend, Apache NiFi and Airflow, Informatica, SSIS, Azure Data Factory
- Solid understanding of data security principles including encryption, key management, and secure design principles
- Extensive experience with SQL and No-SQL Databases
- Knowledge of data partitioning, clustering, and performance optimization techniques
- Hands-on expertise with modern cloud-based data warehouses, including Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse Analytics
- Strong understanding of application monitoring, observability, and alerting practices to ensure system reliability, performance, and rapid incident response
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
- Experience working on regulated financial systems, with knowledge of compliance and audit requirements (e.g., SOX, SOC, ISO, GDPR)