Lead Integration Engineer – 12 Month FTC

AND Digital

Lead Integration Engineer designing APIs and event-driven integrations for AND Digital, a technology company accelerating digital delivery and closing the digital skills gap. Providing technical leadership across resilient systems and platforms.

Posted 8/17/2026full-timeBristol • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing scalable and resilient integration architectures, with a strong focus on API development, event-driven systems, and operational support. Capable of providing technical leadership and fostering collaboration across diverse teams to enhance integration capabilities.

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API DevelopmentEvent-Driven ArchitectureIntegration Services DesignOperational SupportTechnical Leadership

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Hard Skills

Integration DevelopmentAPI ManagementError Handling MechanismsAsynchronous CommunicationMessaging SystemsDistributed SystemsTechnical DocumentationClean Code PrinciplesCI/CD PracticesVersion Control

Soft Skills

Technical MentoringCollaborationCommunication

Industry Keywords

Integration PatternsInterface ContractsSchemasService InteroperabilityResilienceScalabilityObservabilityPerformance Requirements

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient and maintainable system integrations
Define and promote integration patterns, standards and best practices across the technology estate
Provide technical leadership and guidance to integration engineers and delivery teams
Design and support API-led and event-driven integration architectures
Develop and maintain APIs, interfaces and integration services connecting source systems, the Accounts platform and downstream consumers
Own and govern schemas, interface contracts and integration specifications
Design and implement event publication and consumption mechanisms
Ensure integrations meet resilience, scalability, security, observability and performance requirements
Establish approaches to error handling, retry, replay, monitoring and operational recovery
Lead investigation and resolution of complex integration issues across systems and teams
Collaborate with architects, developers, product owners and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into integration solutions
Contribute to technical strategy, architectural decisions and continuous improvement of integration capability
Support knowledge sharing, technical mentoring and engineering standards

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience in API and integration development
Experience designing and implementing robust integration services
Experience with event-driven architectures, event publication, consumption and asynchronous communication
Understanding of scalable, resilient and loosely coupled system integration architectures
Knowledge of API management, interface contracts, schemas and service interoperability
Experience with integration patterns, messaging and distributed systems
Experience in operational support, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution
Ability to design error handling, retry and replay mechanisms
Experience working across complex technology estates with multiple source and consuming systems
Knowledge of software engineering principles including clean code, testing, version control and CI/CD
Technical documentation skills and ability to communicate complex integration concepts to stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Blended Working model with work from home, in the clubhouse, on a client, or another location
Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and produce meaningful work
Dedicated career scrum team to support career goals and skills development
Annual budget for training and upskilling
Allocated training days off
Monthly and quarterly team socials funded by the company
Safe and inclusive environment to be yourself and challenge yourself
Application and interview adjustments available