Lead Integration Engineer

Quick Facts

Lead Integration Engineer focused on integration architectures, API governance, and end-to-end integration delivery for distributed systems and microservice environments.

Description

You will design integration architectures, define interfaces and data flows, and build integration solutions using REST/SOAP and event/messaging systems. The role includes driving integration concepts and technical standards, developing supporting scripts or tools, and ensuring stable integrations through testing, monitoring, and 3rd-level support.

Responsibilities

• Design integration architectures; define interfaces and data flows in distributed system landscapes and microservice environments
• Advance integration concepts, API governance, and technical standards; evaluate new technologies
• Implement integration solutions, configure interfaces, and optimize communication via REST, SOAP, and event/messaging systems
• Develop technical solutions and create scripts, mock services, or tools to support integration and testing
• Create data mappings and transformation logic; optimize integration platforms
• Structure complex requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and document them clearly
• Visualize technical flows and system interactions using UML or sequence diagrams; facilitate workshops with stakeholders
• Plan and manage integration and system tests, including targeted test automation and data-flow monitoring
• Analyze data-exchange incidents, take ownership in 3rd-level support, and ensure stable integrations
• Communicate with customers, business teams, and project leadership; coordinate transparently and provide project reporting

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Industrial Engineering, or comparable OR solid IT vocational training (e.g., system integration)
• Several years of experience (ideally 6+ years) in system integration, integration architecture, interface development, or similar roles
• Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP, and event/messaging systems (e.g., Kafka or RabbitMQ), including integration patterns and API design
• Secure hands-on skills with JSON, XML, data mappings, SQL, and Java; experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
• Routine with tools like Jira, Confluence, Git, Docker, Postman, Bruno, SoapUI, and Grafana
• Experience in the insurance environment
• German at C1/C2 and English at least B2
• Flexibility for customer project assignments
• Advantage: JavaScript for test automation; experience with Spring Boot, Apache Camel, or Guidewire

Benefits

• Flexible work model: remote, hybrid, or on-site
• Monthly extras
• 30 days of vacation
• Company pension plan
• Company health insurance