Description and requirements
Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.
Known for working on major projects such as HS2 – the UK’s new high-speed railway, we are building, upgrading, and maintaining the country’s infrastructure for future generations.
Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative, and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.
We are looking for Integration Architect to join our HS2 project in London
The SCS IT Team is responsible for managing cloud-based services and on-site facilities for about 2000 users.
Our services are SaaS by Construction related solution providers, and our effort is towards insuring business requirements and service levels are met.
The Integration Architect is responsible for taking lead role in establishing integration architecture discipline, integration architecture, policies & design for the systems and providing hands-on integration technical capability leading to establish support function within IT department. The role design, implement and help to maintain IT system integration solutions to meet the needs of IT Requirements.
Flexible working:
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, remote working, or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.
You’ll be Responsible for :
- Lead and manage integration architecture activities together with other IT architects, support teams and 3rd party vendors.
- Be “the go-to person” for all the integration related topics, information and knowledge of the integration technologies, platforms and architecture.
- Analyse and deliver solution to integration requirements for projects/BAU works which involves IT systems. Hands on skill to help deliver Design, Build, Test and also to lead/review the works delivered by third parties.
- Own and manage integration architecture related artefacts (integration inventory, integration architecture/design, guidelines, integration patterns)
- Closely work with support/service team, 3rd parties to monitor integration related issues and lead resolution in timely manner (specially production incidents) and take proactive actions.
- Ensure compliance with IT Security policies, and participates in security, audit and regulatory initiatives. Reinforce security rules and escalate where risky activity is detected.
- Manage the schedule & timeline of the activities across multiple systems/regions, assess and avoid conflicts and streamline the work efforts and communicate with relevant parties.
- Document processes, procedures, and plans, including changes, upgrades, and new integrations.
The Ideal Candidate
Proven experience as integration architect in developing integration strategy through to execution and delivery in established IT department, covering:
- Integration strategy and architecture
- Integration design (service catalogue, High Level Design, Low Level Design)
- Agile/iterative delivery
- API and ecosystem management
- Operational management of integration including performance, security and monitoring
Experienced in the design and implementation of integration products from vendors like IBM, Oracle, Dell, etc., delivering integrations between Cloud and On-Premises, Cloud and Cloud, On-premises and Off -premises systems, addressing business, technology, and people aspects.
Proven architectural design skills and ability to discuss the merits and trade-offs of using any particular design approach and technology.
- Expertise in integration architecture and design patterns:
- Protocols and formats SOA, Rest, JSON, XML, etc
- Microservices
- Error handling
- Automation
- Event driven architecture
- API and ecosystem
- Identity and Access management
- Cloud to Cloud integration & Cloud to On Premise integration
- Front End and Back End integrations, network and infrastructure management.
- Experience of using EAM tool – LeanIX(desirable)
Experience of similar position/role or working within established architecture practice. Developed enterprise level integration design and delivered it accordingly using suitable technologies, adopting appropriate standards and governance.
Equal opportunities
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.
Flexible working
We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.
Reasonable adjustments
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.
More information about the role
Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:
Closing date
The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.
