Integration Architect

Integration Architect at PagoNxt (a Santander company) Location: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain. Employment type: Full-time. Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level. PagoNxt Payments is Santander Group’s global payments platform, focused on providing tailored financial infrastructure for companies, banks, and fintechs—both inside and outside the Santander ecosystem. With operations in over 10 countries, our mission is to simplify payments and empower businesses through secure, flexible, data‑driven technology. We operate on a cloud‑native architecture designed to scale and adapt to the needs of global organizations. Our platform supports international transactions, FX, multi‑currency accounts, regulatory compliance and fraud prevention—all under a unified approach. What You’ll Do Define integration architectures for microservices and event‑driven systems. Ensure proper use of Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) across services and components. Support squads in resiliency, observability and performance topics. Contribute to integration blueprints, ADRs and guardrails. Collaborate with the API/Contract Architect (governance, publication, and security of contracts). Participate in architectural reviews and documentation. Act as a bridge between business architecture, application teams and integration squads. What We’re Looking For We are looking for an Integration Architect with a holistic, end‑to‑end understanding of enterprise systems and integration flows. You will design and govern integration solutions and patterns for a strategic payments platform, spanning synchronous, asynchronous and bulk integration scenarios, while ensuring adherence to Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and best practices in cloud‑native microservices architecture. 8 years in integration architecture or technical design. Solid understanding of microservices, EIP, and both synchronous (HTTP) and asynchronous (messaging) flows. Messaging systems: IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka. REST APIs, Apigee or Apigee Hybrid. Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic (or similar). Cloud and containers: Kubernetes (preferably EKS, any flavor valid). Authentication: OAuth2, SAML/SSO (Azure AD or equivalent). English: B2 level or higher. Technology Stack – Reference Framework (applies to this role) Public Cloud: AWS preferred; Azure/GCP acceptable. Kubernetes: EKS preferred; OpenShift/AKS/other flavors acceptable. Microservices: Java 17, Spring Boot; Apache Camel desirable. Frontend: React. (For frontend roles, Microfrontends with Module Federation.) Other languages (desirable): Python, Shell scripting, Node.js. APIs & Security: Apigee Hybrid, OAuth 2.0, SSO/SAML, REST APIs; GraphQL desirable. Asynchrony & Messaging: Events and message‑driven architectures; RabbitMQ, Kafka/Confluent, IBM MQ; AsyncAPI desirable. Datastores: PostgreSQL (or any SQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Elastic). Caching/State: Redis. Object Storage: S3 (or compatible). CI/CD & SCM: Concourse, GitHub (or equivalents). Collaboration: Confluence, Jira. AI tools (desirable): GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT. What Can Earn You Extra Points Experience in contract testing. Knowledge of Jsonata and Apache Camel. What We Offer Medical insurance Dental insurance Wellhub Life insurance Annual healthcare Transportation allowance Meal voucher/food voucher Annual bonus Access to self‑development programmes Hybrid Collaborative environment: Successful candidate must be prepared to work 60% on site Next Step Apply and if you know someone who might be looking for this opportunity, share it. J-18808-Ljbffr