Aflac Northern Ireland
Engineering Manager
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Team Context
At Aflac Northern Ireland, we're building a comprehensive ecosystem of Third-Party Integrations (TPI) that seamlessly connect external partners, vendors, and service providers with our core insurance platform.
Our Third Party Integration strategy centres on integration-first, API-driven engineering leadership that enables effortless connectivity across our partner ecosystem. As Engineering Manager for TPI, you will lead a team specializing in third-party system integrations, API management, and data synchronization solutions that power Aflac's expanding network of external partnerships.
The Role
We're seeking an Engineering Manager passionate about system integration, API architecture, and partner enablement who can balance technical leadership with effective stakeholder management across internal teams and external partners. You'll lead engineers while driving adoption of modern integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and scalable API ecosystems.
As the TPI Engineering Manager, you'll have accountability for all third-party integrations and will work closely with Director of Engineering, Product Managers, Architecture teams, and external partner technical teams to deliver seamless integration experiences while growing specialized integration engineering talent.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a specialized team of integration engineers and API developers
- Building expertise in API design, integration patterns, data transformation, and partner onboarding processes
- Coordinating with partner technical teams, vendor representatives, and internal stakeholders on integration requirements
- Fostering a partnership-minded, solution-oriented engineering culture focused on external collaboration and system reliability
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Technical Leadership & Integration Architecture
- Overseeing AWS API Gateway configurations, throttling, authentication, and API lifecycle management for external partner access
- Managing integrations with CRM systems, document management platforms, and industry-specific insurance software
- Leading development of data transformation services, schema mapping, and format conversion for diverse partner data formats
- Creating streamlined processes and tools for rapid integration of new partners and vendors into the Aflac ecosystem.
Skills and Experience
We're looking for a blend of integration expertise and proven leadership capabilities. Don't rule yourself out if you don't have everything listed—your integration mindset, partner collaboration approach, and passion for connecting systems matter most.
Essential Criteria
- 5+ years software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in system integration or API development leadership
- AWS integration services expertise including API Gateway, Java Spring Boot, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS
- API design and management experience with RESTful services, and API versioning strategies
- Third-party integration experience including partner onboarding, data mapping, and system connectivity
- Team leadership experience managing integration engineers and coordinating with external stakeholders
- Strong communication skills for managing both internal teams and external partner relationships
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or STEM (or comparable experience)
- Problem-solving leadership: Resolving integration challenges and technical conflicts between systems
- Vendor management: Coordinating technical requirements and delivery timelines with external partners
- Documentation leadership: Ensuring comprehensive integration documentation and partner onboarding materials
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Candidates must:
- Be permanently based in Northern Ireland with the relevant Right to Work Visa
Desirable Criteria
- Message queuing systems: SQS, SNS, MSK, Apache Kafka, and event streaming platforms
- Data transformation: ETL processes, schema mapping, JSON/XML transformation, and data validation
- Authentication & security: OAuth2, JWT, API key management, and secure integration patterns
- Monitoring & observability: API monitoring, integration health checks, and alerting systems
- Enterprise integration patterns: ESB, message routing, content-based routing, and saga patterns
- Database integration: Multi-database synchronization, CDC (Change Data Capture), and data replication
- Real-time streaming with Kinesis, Kafka, or similar event streaming technologies
Please note that this is NOT a remote role, you will be required to come into the office 2 days per week.
So that's us. Thanks for taking the time to read this far. We look forward to hearing from you if you fancy joining an innovative technology company that runs locally and is supported by a well-established, highly recognised Fortune 500 company in the US.
Aflac Northern Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.
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