AND Digital
Lead Integration Engineer (12 Month FTC)
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Lead Integration Engineer - 12 Month FTC
Who We Are:
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.
We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.
This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.
Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead Integration Engineer to take a leading role in designing, delivering and supporting robust integration solutions across our technology estate.
The role will be responsible for enabling seamless and reliable interaction between source systems, the Accounts platform and downstream consumers. You will provide technical leadership across integration design and delivery, establish resilient integration patterns, and help ensure that information is exchanged securely, consistently and reliably across multiple platforms and teams.
The successful candidate will combine strong technical integration expertise with the ability to influence and collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams and other stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 other 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, ensuring consistency and interoperability.
- Design and implement event publication and consumption mechanisms.
- Ensure integrations are designed with appropriate resilience, scalability, security, observability and performance in mind.
- Establish effective approaches to error handling, retry, replay, monitoring and operational recovery.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of complex integration issues across multiple systems and teams.
- Work closely with architects, developers, product owners and technical stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into effective integration solutions.
- Contribute to technical strategy, architectural decisions and the continuous improvement of the organisation's integration capability.
- Support knowledge sharing, technical mentoring and the development of engineering standards and practices.
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Experience & Technical Skills
We are particularly interested in candidates with strong experience in:
- API and integration development, including the design and implementation of robust integration services.
- Event-driven architectures, including event publication, consumption and asynchronous communication patterns.
- System integration design, with an understanding of scalable, resilient and loosely coupled architectures.
- API management, interface contracts, schemas and service interoperability.
- Integration patterns, messaging and distributed systems.
- Operational support, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident resolution.
- Designing effective error handling, retry and replay mechanisms.
- Working across complex technology estates with multiple source and consuming systems.
- Software engineering principles, including clean code, testing, version control and CI/CD.
- Technical documentation and communicating complex integration concepts to a range of stakeholders.
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Why join AND Digital?
We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.
By joining AND, we’ll provide:
- Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
- A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
- A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
- An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
- Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
- A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.
Equal Opportunities Statement
At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.
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