Generali Central Life Insurance - Integration Solution Architect

: The Integration Architect & Specialist will be responsible for designing, governing and enabling enterprise integration architectures that seamlessly connect applications, platforms, data, APIs and external ecosystems. Key Responsibilities: - Design end-to-end integration architectures across enterprise applications, platforms, data and external systems. - Define integration strategies and architecture patterns across legacy, on-premise, cloud and SaaS environments. - Design synchronous and asynchronous integration solutions. - Define reusable integration patterns, standards and reference architectures. - Design and govern API-led integration architectures. - Design event-driven and real-time integration architectures. - Architect and evaluate enterprise integration platforms and middleware. - Design integration across Core Applications, Digital Channels, CRM, ERP, Data Platforms, AI Platforms and Partner Ecosystems. - Design integration architectures spanning on-premise, private cloud and public cloud. - Incorporate security into integration architecture by design. - Design integrations with appropriate retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, timeouts, idempotency, error handling, and failure recovery. - Define and maintain enterprise integration standards and principles. - Enable automated deployment and lifecycle management of integration components. Technical Skills: - Enterprise Integration Patterns, API-led architecture, Event-driven architecture, Microservices, Hybrid integration. - REST, SOAP, GraphQL, API gateways, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT. - Apache Kafka, Message queues, Event brokers, Pub/Sub. - Experience with MuleSoft, Boomi, IBM ACE, Azure/AWS/GCP Integration Services, SAP Integration Suite, WSO2. - Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Serverless. - Engineering: Java/Python/.NET, SQL, CI/CD, Git, DevSecOps. Experience & Qualifications : - 8 - 12+ years of experience in Integration Architecture, Solution Architecture, Middleware, or API Architecture. - Proven experience designing enterprise-scale integration solutions. - Experience integrating legacy systems with modern cloud-native platforms. - Experience in insurance, banking or financial services is preferred. - Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related discipline.