Integration Architect - Kafka

Integration Architect - Kafka Rate: £600 per day (Outside IR35)Duration: 6-month contractLocation: London - 4 days per week onsiteOverview:I''m currently supporting a client on a major transformation programme who are looking to appoint a highly experienced Integration Architect to define and lead their enterprise integration strategy.This is a hands-on technical architecture position where you''ll be responsible for shaping the future integration landscape, establishing architectural standards and building a modern event-driven ecosystem. You''ll work closely with engineering leadership to create an integration capability centred around Kafka, microservices, cloud native technologies and API-first principles, whilst helping to build and mentor a high performing integration engineering team.ResponsibilitiesDefine and own the enterprise integration strategy across multiple business domains.Design a scalable, event-driven architecture using Kafka as the core messaging platform.Establish best practice integration patterns, architectural standards and governance.Build and help scale a modern integration engineering capability, providing technical leadership and mentoring.Design resilient, loosely coupled microservices architectures following domain driven design principles.Lead architecture across APIs, messaging, streaming and asynchronous communication.Drive the adoption of API-first and event-first development practices.Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including ..... full job details .....