Senior Integration Architect

We are opening a Senior Integration Architect position to strengthen a team based in Geneva. In this role, you will help define and evolve the integration architecture of complex information systems. You will work across cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring reliable, secure, scalable, and high-performing communication between applications, platforms, and services.

Job Responsabilities

• Lead architectural activities related to system integration across large-scale IT initiatives.
• Contribute to defining, evolving, and implementing an enterprise-wide integration strategy.
• Design integration architectures and formulate technical proposals addressing the requirements of new projects.
• Establish architectural models, integration patterns, technical standards, and best practices to support project teams.
• Develop roadmaps to help existing or non-compliant solutions progressively align with established integration principles and standards.
• Advise technical teams on the design and deployment of secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available integration solutions.
• Produce architecture deliverables such as blueprints, data-flow diagrams, API specifications, and other technical design documentation.
• Collaborate closely with development, IT operations, security, business analysis, and architecture teams to ensure consistency across solutions.

Job requirements

• University degree in a relevant field combined with substantial professional experience in integration architecture and complex enterprise IT environments.
• Strong track record in designing and implementing large-scale integration solutions spanning both cloud and on-premises infrastructures.
• In-depth knowledge of API architecture and lifecycle management, including API design, API gateways, management platforms, and API security.
• Strong understanding of integration platforms, middleware technologies, ETL/data integration processes, and data exchanges between heterogeneous systems.
• Sound knowledge of secure data-transfer practices, including encryption and related information-security principles.
• Ability to design robust integration architectures incorporating high availability, scalability, resilience, load balancing, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Professional certification in cloud architecture or integration technologies, such as AWS, Azure, Oracle, or equivalent, would be an advantage.
• Excellent command of English and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical, business, and senior stakeholders.

Joining Sword means…

💼 Continuous training: A training budget that grows every month to be used in a large training catalog

🏝 25 days of paid vacation: All our employees are entitled to 25 days of paid vacation per year

🤹 ♂️ Respect for privacy: No meetings after 5 p.m. with us

🚑 International accident insurance coverage

🎉 Regular events: Monthly events to get together in small or large group

🌍 International environments: Assignments in groups of international scope

🛠 Innovation: Contribute to impactful and innovative projects in many sectors of activity

🎁 Small pleasures: Our employees benefit from a very interesting benefits and discounts program