Lead API Integration Engineer - Outside IR35

Lead API Integration Engineer - Outside IR35

Job Type: Contract/Temporary

Location: London

Negotiable

Job Ref: BBBH62

Date Added: February 13th, 2025

Consultant: Lead API Integration Engineer - Outside IR35

Exciting opportunity for a Lead API Integration Engineer to join a leading insurance company.

Length: 6 months

Location: Hybrid 2 days on-site in London

Project Details:
The business is going through a fundamental change and constantly adapting and enhancing their services.

Requirement:
A Senior Engineering Integration Lead to work within the Motor business across multiple teams on the implementation of the future road-maps to meet strategic business goals. Provide Engineering Leadership to a high performing, collaborative team comprising internal and external technical specialists and managers towards a common goal. Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities:

• Set direction and ensure the Software Engineering practice adheres to the agreed policies, standards and governance.
• Deliver Technical Examples, Proof of Concepts and Templates for Teams to adopt, streamlining project bootstrapping and enabling existing projects to adopt appropriate practices.
• Perform Technical Spikes required in applications and Processes for assessment.
• Propose new tools and adoption road-map.
• Work with suppliers and teams to ensure practices are adopted and feedback included in the practice change.
• Work closely with the business area and leadership team to drive progress against the plan and identify any areas where mitigations or interventions are required.
• Effectively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and change requests.
• Input into and maintain proactive stakeholder management and stakeholder communications.

Technical Skills:

• Experience in a number of APIs: Mulesoft 3.9 and 4.x (self-hosted), Boomi, Jitterbit, Snaplogic, etc.
• REST / SOAP / RPC in-depth knowledge.
• AWS services and patterns.
• Full Stack Engineering Thinking.
• Implementation of Engineering Best Practices.
• Implementation of Observability standards.
• Adherence to Security standards.
• Experience of 24x7 operational systems as well as high volume trading activity.
• Useful knowledge of Oracle and Kafka.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.