Integration Tech Lead

Integration Tech Lead

About Glue Reply:

Glue Reply is the outcome-focused Architecture specialist within the Reply Group. Through services encompassing Business Change/Transformation, Strategy & Architecture, Data exploitation and Integration, Glue Reply is able to help its clients succeed by turning strategy into tangible solutions and vision into practical outcomes. Glue Reply diagnoses the challenges and advises on the way to make real impact – enabling its clients to deliver. www.glue.reply.com  

Role Overview:

As an Integration Tech Lead, you will join Glue Reply, the UK’s leading IT Architecture & Integration consultancy renowned for excellence and market leadership. You will play a pivotal role in supporting and guiding blue-chip clients, ensuring the implementation of integration best practices. With a passion for delivering beyond client expectations, you will help maintain Glue Reply’s reputation for quality and innovation. Articulate and enthusiastic, you will drive integration success and contribute to the consultancy’s ongoing growth and leadership in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Define and design integration solutions based on high-level business and technical requirements.


• Lead and manage teams of developers working with integration technologies such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Camel, and Workato.


• Translate business and integration needs into solution designs, RAML specifications, and Mule flows, selecting appropriate connectors and ensuring robust error-handling and security.


• Support architects by developing blueprints and detailed technical specifications for integration solutions.


• Ensure all integration solutions adhere to established standards and principles for consistency and compliance.


• Champion automated testing practices, including unit and integration tests, and ensure performance and security best practices are applied.


• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to Integration Developers and testers.


• Contribute to the development and enhancement of Glue Reply’s intellectual property within the Integration Practice.


• Collaborate with business analysts and clients to clarify requirements, breaking down work into actionable stories and tasks for the team.


• Drive team progress, maintaining development velocity and ensuring project goals are met.

About the Candidate:

• Extensive experience in enterprise integration development, including 3+ years as a senior integration developer or team lead.


• Demonstrable integration design and development expertise.


• Strong understanding of SOA and REST principles and their application and in-depth knowledge of API management, MFT, ETL, and messaging concepts.


• Hands-on experience with integration technologies such as MuleSoft and others (WebSphere, Oracle, WebMethods, Talend, Tibco, Apache Camel, Boomi).


• Proficiency with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP.


• Familiarity with XSD, XML, XSLT, web services, APIs, JSON, and messaging queues (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, MQSeries, MSMQ).


• Experience with Java frameworks (such as Hibernate and Camel), as well as architecture frameworks like TOGAF, Zachman, or MODAF, is advantageous.


• Understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and prior client-side consulting experience is beneficial.


• Ability to work autonomously to deliver outcomes that exceed client expectations, and experience in a Solution Architect role, are both advantageous.


• Must be eligible for UK government security clearance (SC level) and able to work on-site at client offices when required.