Integrations Lead - Kidlington, OX5 1HX
As Technology Integrations Lead at Essentra, responsible for critical integrations connecting internal & external business applications and digital services, you will be a passionate leader who thrives on delivering challenging projects in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
You will architect, implement, and manage enterprise-grade integration solutions using Microsoft Azure Integration Services. This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, overseeing a team of developers and engineers to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing integration solutions across the organization. You will define and continuously improve integration standards and patterns, working in close collaboration with Enterprise Architecture colleagues and technical system experts, delivering and maintaining robust and flexible integrations which enable Essentra's business. The role will entail team both hands on development as well as management of, permanent team members and scaling based on demand with partners/contractors. You will collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders and be influential in driving integrations architecture patterns across Essentra.
Responsibilities
- Leading by example on our enterprise integrations across strategy, architecture and technical delivery
- Guiding and mentoring the integrations development team members
- Architect and manage integrations and APIs using Azure Integration Services and API Management, ensuring secure, scalable, and reusable interfaces.
- Hands-on integrations development as well as leading others
- Assuring governance, guardrails, designs, delivery, security, quality and performance
- Lead the development of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates and CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
- Maintenance & operational support ownership of live integration services
- Act as the primary escalation point for integration
Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Proven track record of guiding and mentoring engineers of differing levels of maturity
- Adept at and managing the delivery of technology service providers, contractors & partners - including resource/capacity planning & reporting
- High degree of initiative, dependability, and ability to work without supervision.
- Deep experience with Microsoft Azure Integration Services
- Strong integration design and implementation experience
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure DevOps
- Service Bus, Logic Apps, Power Automate, Azure Functions
- API management - including API gateway products
- Coding experience with one or more of .Net, C#, Java
- Deep experience of a wide range of integration architecture patterns & methods, synchronous, asycnchronus/oub/sub, batch, event driven etc. and appropriateness of method for solution
- Experience using Cloud platforms, preferably Azure
- CI/CD, Pipelines and DevOps - Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions etc.
- Source code & quality, management tools - Azure DevOps, GitHub, SAST/DAST
- Governance & documentation of production integrations
- Confidently lead engagement and coordination of cross functional stakeholders
- Critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills - able to identify, prioritise, and solve complex technical issues
- Good understanding and experience of system testing and quality assurance
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with high level of English language proficiency
- Proven interpersonal/project skills, ability to listen and coach.
- Flexibility to work outside of core business hours as required - e.g. out of core hours deployments and maintenance
- High integrity, reliable with strong time management and self-organisational skills
What we offer:
- Competitive Salary
- Car Allowance
- Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover)
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Up to 5% matched pension contribution
- 4x annual salary life assurance
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Employee discounts through MyDiscounts
- Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
- Eyecare Vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
This is a hybrid role with expectation of working in our Kidlington or Jarrow office 2-3 days per week.
Essentra plc is a leading global provider of essential components and solutions, focusing on the manufacture and distribution of plastic injection moulded, vinyl dip moulded and metal items.
Headquartered in the UK, Essentra's global network extends to 28 countries worldwide and includes over 3,000 employees, 14 manufacturing facilities, 24 distribution centres and 33 sales & service centres serving c.74,000 customers with a rapid supply of low cost but essential products for a variety of applications in industries such as equipment manufacturing, automotive, fabrication, electronics, medical and renewable energy.
At Essentra we are ideally looking for individuals who enjoy working as part of a close team, are passionate about what they do and who strive to make a difference. We are always looking to better ourselves and are keen to recruit individuals who like to innovate and improve processes.
As part of our recruitment process you will be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Documentary evidence will be requested at interview.