About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced
Principal Lead – Middleware & Integration Architecture
to provide technical leadership and shape the enterprise middleware and integration strategy for a large-scale, complex technology environment.
This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for driving
API-first architecture, cloud adoption, integration modernisation and middleware platform engineering
.
The successful candidate will combine deep architecture expertise with hands-on technical leadership, driving the modernisation of legacy platforms towards
cloud-native, microservices and container-based architectures
.
Key Responsibilities
Define and drive the enterprise
middleware and integration strategy
, aligned with business objectives, cloud adoption and API-first architecture.
Establish architecture standards, design patterns and engineering best practices across
APIs, integration, messaging and event-driven platforms
.
Lead the design, review and approval of middleware solutions, ensuring scalability, security, resilience and compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
Drive
legacy-to-cloud, monolith-to-microservices and on-premise-to-Kubernetes
modernisation initiatives.
Partner with delivery teams to plan and execute API, integration and messaging initiatives, providing technical guidance for complex or high-risk implementations.
Ensure middleware platforms meet requirements for
high availability, observability, performance, disaster recovery and operational readiness
.
Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex middleware platform incidents and production issues.
Evaluate middleware products, cloud services and open-source technologies, recommending solutions based on scalability, cost and risk.
Establish engineering best practices across
DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, documentation and knowledge sharing
.
Provide technical leadership and coaching to middleware engineers, senior engineers and solution architects.
Work closely with
Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Cloud & Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, Security and Network teams
.
Manage technology vendors and partners to ensure successful delivery and platform performance.
Requirements
8–12+ years of experience
in enterprise middleware, integration or platform engineering.
At least
5 years in a senior technical leadership, architecture or Principal-level role
.
Proven experience designing and operating
large-scale enterprise middleware platforms
.
Strong architecture expertise across
API Management, ESB/integration, messaging and event-driven architectures
.
Demonstrated experience leading
cloud migration and middleware modernisation
programmes.
Strong understanding of
microservices, Kubernetes/container platforms and cloud-native architecture
.
Good knowledge of production resilience, high availability, observability, capacity planning and disaster recovery.
Experience with
DevSecOps, CI/CD and engineering automation practices
.
Strong architecture governance and ability to establish technical standards and design principles.
Able to provide hands-on technical guidance while influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional engineering teams.
Excellent communication, stakeholder and vendor-management skills.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Shirley Tan (EA Licence Number: 25S2710 /Registration ID: R21103665)