Senior API & Integration Architect
Pubblicato il 22-09-2026 - catWorkX in Provincia di Varese
Welcome to Herzum | now part of Catworkx!
We are much more than an IT consulting company: we are innovators, pioneers, and partners in excellence. Today, we begin a new chapter as part of the catworkx group — one of the world’s leading Atlassian Platinum Partners, with a strong presence across Europe.
Founded in Chicago in 2000, Herzum has grown into an international organization with offices in Italy, the United States, India, Switzerland, Ecuador, and the United Kingdom. Together with catworkx, we combine expertise, culture, and vision to deliver solutions that bring innovation, efficiency, and collaboration to companies around the world. We specialize in Agile, DevOps, and team collaboration technologies, helping organizations work better, faster, and more seamlessly.
Senior API & Integration Architect:
We are looking for a Senior Integration Architect to join the Knowledge Management & Data team of our Customer.
You will be responsible for designing and implementing integration solutions, ensuring alignment with business needs, technical requirements and organisational standards.
What you will do
Design, plan and implement integration strategies within an HTTP/S ecosystem
Apply distributed-architecture best practices to solve complex integration problems between information systems
Design, implement and document APIs, exposed securely on a public-facing API Gateway
Design, implement and deploy workflows
Develop, deploy and manage integration solutions on containerised infrastructure
Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions meet organisational standards for security, scalability and maintainability
Mandatory requirements
University degree (EQF Level 7 — master’s degree or 5 years of higher education)
Minimum 20 years of IT professional experience
English B2 or higher (spoken and written)
10+ years of experience in each of the following:
HTTP and API design
RESTful and SOAP web services (design and consumption)
Asynchronous communication and publish/subscribe techniques and technologies
5+ years of experience in each of the following:
Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud-native architectures
Distributed/Microservice architectures and complex event processing
Web security, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
API management platforms (e.g. WSO2, CAPI) for securing, publishing and analysing APIs
CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI)
Soft skills
Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to produce IT architecture documentation for complex integration patterns, plus clear operational and design reports
Experience contributing to and leveraging open-source technologies and communities
Comfortable in an international, multicultural environment and multilingual meetings
Able to work both autonomously and in a team, with a results-oriented, delivery-focused mindset
Work mode: Hybrid – Ispra (VA).
We are looking for VAT-registered professionals (Partita IVA) available to collaborate, with a daily rate between € 300 and € 320.
Join us! Become part of a team driven by innovation, belief in talent, and a commitment to excellence. Your next career step starts here.
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