Enterprise Integration Architect
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Senior, Expert
Kyiv, Ukraine
Hybrid
IT Operations
About the job
Requirements
- The candidate should have 7–10+ years of IT experience, including at least 3 years in enterprise, integration, or solution architecture, preferably in banking or financial services.
- The candidate should have a strong practical background in enterprise integration architecture, including designing large-scale integration landscapes and defining integration strategies and standards.
- The candidate should have strong expertise in API architecture and API Management, REST and asynchronous API patterns, event-driven architecture, Kafka and event streaming, messaging technologies, ESB and iPaaS platforms, service integration, external and partner integrations, and legacy and core banking integration.
- The candidate should have practical experience designing or governing enterprise integration platforms or layers and defining their target architecture and evolution roadmap.
- The candidate should have experience implementing API and event governance, including catalogs, ownership models, versioning, lifecycle management, documentation, security standards, and reuse policies.
- The candidate should understand integration patterns and anti-patterns, including point-to-point integration, orchestration versus choreography, transactional integration, eventual consistency, idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, and distributed-system resilience.
- The candidate should have a strong understanding of API security, including OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, token management, authorization, rate limiting, and API gateway security controls.
- The candidate should have experience with enterprise API Management or integration technologies such as Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Kafka, or Confluent, or equivalent platforms.
- The candidate should have strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman, and modeling notations such as ArchiMate, UML, and BPMN.
- The candidate should have hands-on experience with enterprise architecture tools such as LeanIX, Ardoq, or MEGA, or similar tools, for portfolio management, dependency mapping, capability modeling, and architecture repository management.
- The candidate should have a deep understanding of banking domains, including core banking, payments, lending, customer onboarding, KYC/AML, cards, accounting, and regulatory compliance.
- The candidate should have experience with the BIAN Service Landscape and its practical application to domain decomposition, service boundaries, and integration architecture.
- The candidate should have a solid understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure and hybrid infrastructure strategies, including Kubernetes, Docker, service connectivity, and Infrastructure as Code.
- The candidate should have experience with data architecture concepts including data products, data mesh or data fabric, master data management, data governance, and analytics platforms.
- The candidate should know modern software engineering and architecture practices, including DDD, CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, and observability.
- The candidate should have proven experience in technology portfolio governance, technology radar management, lifecycle policies, build-versus-buy analysis, and vendor assessment.
- The candidate should have stakeholder management and communication skills and be able to explain complex integration and architecture topics in clear business terms for executive audiences.
- The candidate should have experience facilitating Architecture Review Boards, architecture workshops, and cross-functional alignment sessions.
- The candidate should be able to define long-term target architecture while supporting incremental modernization of a complex legacy banking landscape.
- The candidate should communicate fluently in English, both in writing and speaking.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and roadmaps aligned with the bank’s business strategy.
- Own and evolve the bank’s enterprise integration architecture and integration strategy across APIs, events, messaging, batch and file integration, and legacy integration patterns.
- Define the target architecture and roadmap for the enterprise integration layer, including API Management, event streaming, Integration/iPaaS capabilities, service connectivity, and integration with legacy and core banking platforms.
- Drive development of the enterprise API and integration ecosystem, ensuring reusable, secure, observable, and well-governed integration capabilities across business domains and tribes.
- Establish and govern enterprise integration standards and patterns, including synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, request/reply, data synchronization, batch integration, and integration with external partners.
- Own and evolve the enterprise API, Event, and Integration Catalog, providing visibility of APIs, events, interfaces, dependencies, ownership, lifecycle status, and reuse opportunities across the bank.
- Define governance and lifecycle management for APIs and events, including naming conventions, versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation, ownership, SLAs/SLOs, security requirements, and documentation standards.
- Establish API-first and event-driven architecture principles, reducing point-to-point integrations and increasing reuse and interoperability between domains.
- Define boundaries and responsibilities between domain services, integration platforms, data platforms, and shared enterprise capabilities.
- Facilitate integration architecture decisions for cross-domain initiatives and resolve dependencies and conflicts between tribes and systems.
- Develop and govern the Enterprise Architecture framework across application, data, integration, and technology domains.
- Maintain and evolve the enterprise application portfolio of more than 1,000 applications, driving rationalization, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
- Lead Architecture Review Board processes by evaluating solution designs, ensuring compliance with Enterprise Architecture principles, and providing architectural decisions on cross-domain initiatives.
- Review major solution architectures, focusing on integration design, service boundaries, coupling, resilience, scalability, security, and reuse of existing enterprise capabilities.
- Own and manage the Technology Radar by assessing emerging technologies, defining technology standards and lifecycle policies, and guiding adoption and sunset decisions.
- Collaborate with tribe leads, product owners, solution architects, platform teams, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities across 10 domains.
- Drive adoption of industry frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, BIAN, and ArchiMate to ensure architectural consistency and banking-domain alignment.
- Apply BIAN concepts to improve service boundaries, domain ownership, API design, and interoperability between banking capabilities.
- Conduct architecture maturity assessments, identify capability gaps, and define improvement roadmaps, including integration architecture maturity and platform adoption.
- Provide strategic guidance on data architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise data governance and regulatory requirements.
- Facilitate cross-tribe architectural alignment, resolve architectural conflicts, and ensure coherent end-to-end solution design.
- Work with platform and engineering teams to improve integration observability, reliability, security, and operational governance, including monitoring APIs, events, message flows, dependencies, and service-level objectives.
- Identify redundant interfaces, duplicate APIs, point-to-point integrations, and obsolete integration technologies, and define modernization and decommissioning roadmaps.
- Mentor and coach solution architects and engineering leads, fostering architecture thinking and integration design excellence across teams.
- Communicate architecture strategy, decisions, roadmaps, and trade-offs to C-level stakeholders and technical audiences.
Desired Qualifications
- TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification.
- BIAN certification or strong practical BIAN implementation experience.
- Experience establishing or transforming an enterprise integration platform or integration layer in a large financial institution.
- Experience building enterprise API and Event Catalogs and introducing API-first or event-driven governance at scale.
- Experience with Agile at scale and architecture practices within tribe/squad organizational structures.
- Background in core banking migration, modernization, or large-scale transformation programs.
- Experience modernizing ESB or legacy integration landscapes toward APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration patterns, agent/API integration, and data-driven architecture approaches.
- Experience with business capability modeling and IT strategy development.
About the company
Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine is a retail and commercial bank that offers a wide range of banking services across Ukraine. It operates through a nationwide network of outlets and combines front-office customer interactions with back-office support to deliver high-quality service and manage risks. The bank leverages a long history and the expertise of the Raiffeisen international network to provide standard products (like deposits, loans, payments) and innovative services through its branches, digital channels, and back-office operations. Compared with peers, its strength comes from being part of the Raiffeisen International group, which supports risk management, technology modernization, and trusted customer relationships, plus a structured organization with clear lines of business. The goal is to improve customer service quality, ensure effective risk control, and grow trust and recognition among clients and partners while expanding access to banking services across Ukraine.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Kyiv, Ukraine
Founded
1992
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- H1 2026 deposits rose to UAH 216.5 billion, up 8% since January.
- Loans to customers reached UAH 93.5 billion, with 35% of assets in lending.
- EBRD signed a third 2026 guarantee tranche covering EUR 200 million in business loans.
What critics are saying
- NBU fined Raiffeisen UAH 16.1 million on August 7, 2026 for monitoring failures.
- Russia litigation still threatens RBI liquidity after the July 2026 Vienna lawsuit.
- A forced RBI exit from Russia would intensify ownership pressure on Ukraine operations.
What makes Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine unique
- Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine is Ukraine's largest private bank with foreign capital, per June 2026.
- MyRaif reached 1.66 million active users after 250,000 first-half 2026 additions.
- It processed every twelfth euro or dollar of Ukraine's foreign trade in early 2026.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Paid Vacation
- Parental Leave
- Hybrid Work Options
- Wellness Program
- Mental Health Support
- Professional Development Budget
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Legal Services
- Employee Discounts