Integration Solution Architect

Role: Integration Solution Architect
Contract: Permanent
Location: Nottingham, Beeston
Recruitment Partner: Kershia Broughton

Are you ready to make a difference? Join Boots as an Integration Solution Architect in our Technology team based in Nottingham, Beeston. Here at Boots, we work every day to build a brilliant environment for our people, empowering them to deliver care, confidence, and connection to our customers and colleagues.

What you’ll be doing:
As an Integration Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape. You'll lead the design and governance of integration solutions across a diverse enterprise landscape. Including both hands-on engagement in delivery, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and modern integration patterns within a Centre for Enablement (C4E) model.

You will work closely with key stakeholders across product, engineering, and architecture to drive API-led, cloud-native, and event-driven solutions, supporting both transformation initiatives and ongoing platform evolution.

Integration Architecture Scope:
The solution architect will design and govern solutions across a multi-platform integration ecosystem, including:

• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (CloudHub & hybrid/Kubernetes runtimes)
• Enterprise Service Bus Platforms (IBM WebMethods & IBM App Connect Enterprise)
• API Management (Google Apigee)
• Event streaming and messaging (Confluent Kafka, IBM Universal Messaging and WMQ)
• Other data integration tooling (ADF, Talend)

Key responsibilities:

• Design and implement solutions using API-led connectivity (System, Process, Experience APIs) and event-driven patterns, promoting API reuse.
• Act as the primary architecture contact for Product Managers, Project Managers, and business stakeholders.
• Produce high-quality architecture artefacts (HLDs, decision logs) and review LLD’s aligned to enterprise standards.
• Define and document integration patterns, reusable components, and reference architecture.
• Guide adoption of cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Support coexistence and rationalisation of legacy and modern integration platforms.
• Provide hands-on architectural guidance to engineering teams throughout delivery.
• Support design discussions for MuleSoft deployments, including CloudHub and Kubernetes runtime models.
• Provide governance/assurance for projects following C4E practice for Mulesoft.
• Support teams in resolving design challenges and delivery blockers and ensure adherence to architecture governance processes, standards, and design quality gates.
• Support implementation within design of API, integration, and security standards (e.g., OAuth, mTLS, data protection).
• Review and approve solution designs from internal teams, partners, and third parties.
• Promote observability, monitoring, and resilience patterns (e.g., logging, tracing, alerting) and collaborate with platform teams to ensure operational readiness and scalability.

What you’ll need to have (our must-haves):

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within integration-heavy environments working within MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Azure, cloud integration services or hybrid integration architectures.
• Strong track record delivering end-to-end solution designs in complex enterprise landscapes
• Deep understanding of integration patterns, distributed systems, and API architecture
• Strong knowledge of API-led connectivity, RESTful API design and governance and Event-driven architecture and messaging.
• Proven ability to influence and guide decision-making at both technical and business levels.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements such as GDPR and PCI.
• Ability to design secure integration solutions across APIs and platforms.

It would be great if you also have:

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience in a retail or Pharmacy environment.
• Experience supporting or defining a Centre for Enablement (C4E) model.

Where your brilliance can take you:
At Boots, we believe in your potential. You’ll have opportunities for career development and growth, supported by a culture that values learning and progress.

Rewards designed for you:

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 6% company contribution)
• Generous employee discounts for you and a family member
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Flexible benefits scheme including options for additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, and much more.

There’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at http://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only.

A bit about us:
At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported, and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

What’s next?
If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you be at your best.

We hope to hear from you soon.
Be brilliant with Boots.