IT Engineering Standards & Integration Lead

Your New Company Join a global organization undergoing continuous technology transformation, where engineering excellence, standardization and scalable integration practices are critical to delivering reliable and secure digital services. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping how technology solutions are designed, governed and adopted across an international environment.

Your New Role

As the IT Engineering Standards & Integration Lead, you will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, cloud, networking, identity, automation and integration domains. You will be responsible for defining engineering standards, driving consistency across technology teams, and ensuring new solutions are secure, scalable, operationally ready and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining and governing engineering standards, design principles and technical best practices.
• Establishing reusable architecture patterns, technical guardrails and integration frameworks.
• Reviewing and assuring new technology solutions, major changes and integration initiatives.
• Providing technical leadership across API, middleware, identity, networking and cloud integration design.
• Supporting operational readiness, resilience, monitoring, security and compliance requirements.
• Identifying technical risks, standards exceptions and areas of technical debt.
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Service Delivery teams, managed service providers and implementation partners.
• Driving continuous improvement in automation, documentation, engineering governance and service transition processes. 

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Proven experience in IT Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, Integration Architecture or a similar technical leadership role.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments, including cloud platforms, networking, identity and access management, automation and observability.
• Experience defining technical standards, architecture principles and governance frameworks.
• Knowledge of API integration, middleware technologies, data flows and hybrid cloud environments.
• Ability to assess technical solutions, challenge design assumptions and provide pragmatic recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within complex, multi-vendor or managed service environments.
• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Certifications such as ITIL, TOGAF, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Architecture or Integration Architecture would be advantageous. 

What You'll Get in Return

• Opportunity to influence technology strategy and engineering standards on a global scale.
• Exposure to enterprise-wide cloud, infrastructure and integration initiatives.
• Hybrid working model.
• International stakeholder exposure and collaboration.
• Involvement in large-scale transformation and modernization programs.
• A highly visible role with significant impact on technology quality, resilience and governance.

Next Step
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