Azure Integration & Automation Manager
hace 20 días
Watford
Azure Integration & Automation Manager • Annual Salary: Competitive (to be discussed), • Location: Leavesden Park, Watford, • Job Type: Full-time, 3 days a week onsite A new excellent permanent role for an experience Azure Integration & Automation Manager to lead Integration and API capability, designing, delivering, and scaling a modern, API-led integration service that enhances business agility, digital automation, and composable architecture across a leading enterprise construction, engineering business. This role is pivotal in bridging architecture and delivery, combining hands-on technical leadership with service ownership, vendor management, and product-style roadmap management. Day-to-day of the role: Lead Enterprise Integration & API Strategy: • Own and evolve the Integration & API Management strategy, aligned with digital and business priorities., • Define and promote a composable API architecture, ensuring APIs are designed around business capabilities., • Act as the design authority for API Management, including API lifecycle, security, versioning, governance, and reuse. Be the Organisation’s API & Integration Expert: • Serve as the go-to authority on Azure API Management, API design standards, and enterprise integration patterns., • Lead API design reviews and ensure consistent adoption of API-first and event-driven patterns., • Drive adoption of reusable APIs to reduce point-to-point integrations and accelerate delivery. Deliver Integration as a Scalable Service: • Run Integration & Automation as a product-led service, with a clear roadmap, service definition, and engagement model., • Operate and evolve a factory delivery model, supporting predictable, repeatable integration and automation delivery. Lead People and Partners: • Manage and develop a specialist Automation / Integration Engineer, setting technical direction and quality standards., • Lead service escalations and delivery risks where integration is business critical. Required Skills & Qualifications: • Proven experience delivering enterprise Azure integration and automation services, • Strong experience with Azure API Management, API lifecycle management, and secure API design., • Good understanding of Azure API-led, composable, and event-driven architecture at enterprise scale., • Comfortable operating as a hands-on technical SME while engaging credibly with architects, engineers, vendors, and senior stakeholders., • Vendor and contract management capability, focused on value, performance, and continuous improvement., • Ability to manage an API and integration roadmap as a product, informed by demand, feedback, and data., • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders., • Confident influencing delivery priorities, design decisions, and architectural standards across teams. Benefits: • Competitive salary and benefits package., • Opportunities for professional growth and leadership., • Engaging and innovative work environment., • Strategic role with impact across the organisation. To apply for the Integration & Automation Manager position, please submit your CV to be immediately considered.