Senior Integration Technical Architect

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.

Join our team as a Senior Integration Technical Architect. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Integration Technical Architect with hands on experience in development and governance of our enterprise API, Event, and Microservices integration platforms. This role is crucial for driving technical excellence, innovation, and the seamless integration of our digital ecosystem. Reporting to the AVP of API & Integration, you will work closely with Enterprise Architects, Cloud Engineers, and business domain experts to deliver robust, secure, and scalable integration solutions.

What you’ll be doing:

• Architect and Develop Integration Solutions: Expertly design, develop, and maintain advanced integration solutions using Apigee for API management and Kafka for event streaming, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Establish Patterns: Help in building new integration patterns and maintain the existing pattern inventory with industry trend.
• Hands-on Implementation: Evaluate new product feature in the integration and cloud platforms by implementing them and assessing the technical feasibility. Lead hands-on design, development, configuration, and deployment of integration platforms and solutions, focusing on APIs, microservices, service mesh, and multi-cloud environments (GCP and AWS) with an expert level of proficiency. 
• Platform Strategy and Standards: Define and enforce best practices, standards, and patterns for integration platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business goals.
• Platform Capabilities: Proficiently enable and mature platform capabilities, ensuring that integration platforms are robust, scalable, and aligned with business needs.
• Self-Serve Capabilities: Develop and enhance platform self-serve capabilities, empowering development teams to efficiently utilize integration services and tools.
• Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance and mentorship to the integration team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Enterprise Architects, Cloud Engineers, Info Security, and business stakeholders, to design and implement integration solutions that meet business requirements.
• Innovation and Research: Stay abreast of the latest technologies and trends in integration platforms, continuously exploring ways to enhance our integration capabilities.
• Project Management: Lead complex IT projects, managing assumptions, risks, issues, improvements, and dependencies, while adhering to both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all integration solutions are thoroughly tested and meet high standards of quality, security, and performance.

What you bring:

• 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing integration solutions, with a strong focus on API management and event streaming platforms.
• Proven expert-level experience with Apigee API management and Kafka streaming platforms.
• 5+ years of experience in designing integration architecture handling both synchronous and asynchronous use cases.
• 5+ years of experience in developing and deploying microservices and RESTful APIs, preferably with Java and Springboot.
• Significant experience with service mesh technologies and multi-cloud environments (GCP and AWS).
• Proven experience working on large transformational project involving cloud and microservice transformation.

 Technical Expertise:

• Deep, expert-level understanding of integration protocols and principles, including SOAP, REST APIs, RPC/RFC, Websocket, GRPC.
• Expert proficiency in the building the Apigee and Kafka platforms along with knowledge on the consumption of the different features
• Strong understanding of Cloud Architecture, and IaC tooling like Terrafrom
• Hands-on, expert-level experience with Java, Springboot, Python, and other relevant programming languages.
• Mastery in various architectural styles such as Layered Architectures, Transactional applications, Client-Server, Sync/Async messaging, PaaS, and SaaS-based architectures.
• Advanced expertise with containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Strong background and expert-level knowledge in API REST and integration platforms, with a deep understanding of integration patterns and best practices.
• Proven experience in enabling and maturing platform capabilities.
• Experience in developing platform self-serve capabilities.
• Experience in implementing observability solutions for microservice architecture using tooling like DataDog, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Prometheus/Grafana.

Agile and DevOps Proficiency:

• Ability to work in an Agile environment with a strong practice in BDD, TDD, CI, CD, and related tools (e.g., Git, BitBucket, Jenkins, Confluence, JIRA, Swagger).
• Ability to analyze the current CI/CD landscape and propose enhancements to optimize the time and process.
• Expertise in managing and automating the integration lifecycle.

  Security:

• Deep understanding of security paradigms, including OAuth2, Auth0, and ForgeRock.

 Analytical Skills:

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

  Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Self-motivated with a high degree of tenacity, capable of driving projects to completion.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects effectively.

salary range - $87,600 - $181,000

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 [email protected].

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

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