AWS Integration

The AWS Integration Consultant / Architect is responsible for designing, delivering, and governing enterprise-grade integration solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The role enables organisations to connect cloud-native, hybrid, and SaaS systems using secure, scalable, and resilient integration patterns.

Key Responsibilities

Integration Design & Delivery

• Design and implement integrations using AWS services such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SNS/SQS, and AWS Step Functions.
• Implement API-based, event-driven, and message-based integration patterns.
• Translate business and technical requirements into integration designs and implementations.
• Support integrations across enterprise systems including ERP, CRM, HR, data platforms, and SaaS applications.

Architecture & Standards (Architect Focus)

• Define AWS integration architecture, patterns, and best practices.
• Establish reusable integration components and reference architectures.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security, networking, IAM, and governance standards.
• Review solution designs and provide architectural guidance across delivery teams.

Operations, Monitoring & Support

• Design error handling, retries, dead-letter queues, and monitoring strategies.
• Implement logging, tracing, and alerting using AWS monitoring tools.
• Support testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live stabilisation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration and performance issues.
• Contribute to operational documentation and support runbooks.

Collaboration & Advisory

• Collaborate with business, application, data, and cloud platform teams.
• Advise stakeholders on AWS integration approaches and trade-offs.
• Mentor junior consultants and engineers (Senior / Architect level).

Skills, Experience and Competencies

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in AWS integration services and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, and workflow orchestration.
• Understanding of data transformation and integration design patterns.
• Knowledge of AWS IAM, security, networking, and cloud governance.
• Experience integrating AWS with enterprise and SaaS platforms.

Experience (Role Level Determination)

AWS Integration Architect

• 10–14+ years of overall IT experience.
• 7–10+ years of AWS integration and solution architecture experience.
• Proven experience defining enterprise integration strategies and cloud standards.

AWS Integration Consultant

• 6–8 years of overall IT experience.
• 4–6 years of hands-on AWS integration experience.
• Strong focus on solution delivery and implementation.

Competencies

• Systems thinking in complex SI working effectively across ‘complicated’ to ‘complex’ integrations, adapts delivery approach (agile/waterfall/hybrid), and making sound decisions with potentially incomplete information.
• Delivery governance and assurance applying fit for purpose governance, decision records and quality controls to protect outcomes and minimise rework.
• Stakeholder and vendor management aligning multiple parties (client, vendors and delivery streams) to scope, milestones and technical standards.
• Commercial and requirements discipline clarifying assumptions, dependencies, risks and Customer Furnished Items (CFIs), and maintains requirements traceability and clear ‘definition of done’.
• Architecture-to-execution alignment translating solution intent into build ready artefacts (interfaces, data flows, controls, environments and sequencing) that engineering teams can execute with confidence.
• Secure-by-design delivery embedding security, privacy, identity and access controls into integration designs from day one (designed in, not bolted on).
• Reuse and acceleration leveraging reference architectures, patterns, standards and accelerators to increase delivery velocity and consistency.
• Operational readiness designing for run (monitoring, support model, runbooks and auditability) to ensure stable operations post go live.

Qualifications and Certifications

• AWS Certified Developer – Associate (Consultant).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional (Architect).
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (desirable).