# Senior Integration Engineer

> InnovationTeam · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · — · Posted 2026-08-04

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** IT

## Description

This role is responsible for transitioning legacy synchronous/batch integration patterns into scalable, real-time event streams, enforcing governance, and automating deployment pipelines across hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

The **Enterprise Integration Specialist** will lead the design, implementation, and governance of an enterprise-grade Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) utilizing the **Confluent Kafka Event Streaming Platform** within an **IBM environment** (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, IBM Event Streams, Red Hat OpenShift, IBM App Connect / webMethods, and IBM MQ).

## Requirements

**Professional Experience**

-   **Total Experience:** 5+ years in Enterprise Integration, Middleware, or API Architecture.
-   **IBM Integration Platforms:** 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and running integration flows on **IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE / IIB)** OR **IBM webMethods Integration** (webMethods Integration Server, Enterprise Gateway, or webMethods.io).
-   **Event Streaming:** 3+ years of hands-on experience building streaming pipelines with **Confluent Kafka** or Apache Kafka.
-   **Modernization Track Record:** Proven background in refactoring legacy synchronous patterns (SOAP, RPC, File Batch, IBM MQ) into asynchronous event-driven flows using IBM integration tools connected to Kafka.

**2\. Core Technical Requirements**

**A. IBM Integration Capabilities (App Connect or webMethods)**

-   Deep experience authoring, deploying, and maintaining integrations using **IBM App Connect** (ESQL, Java, Compute nodes, REST/SOAP API flows) **OR** **IBM webMethods** (IS Flow Services, Java Services, Designer, webMethods.io).
-   Ability to map complex data formats (JSON, XML, Copybooks, Flat Files) into enterprise canonical models.
-   Experience leveraging native IBM nodes/adapters to produce and consume directly to/from Apache Kafka / Confluent topics.

**B. Confluent Kafka & Streaming Capabilities**

-   Strong grasp of Kafka architecture: Topic partitioning, Producer/Consumer tuning, Consumer Groups, and Offset Management.
-   Hands-on implementation of **Confluent Schema Registry** (Avro/Protobuf) for enterprise data governance and backward/forward schema compatibility.
-   Experience with **Kafka Connect** framework for streaming data between databases, IBM MQ, and Kafka topics.
-   Knowledge of stream transformation using **Kafka Streams** or **ksqlDB**.

**C. Infrastructure, DevOps & Security**

-   Deployment experience on **Red Hat OpenShift**, Kubernetes, or **IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I)**.
-   Experience automating integration deployments using **CI/CD pipelines** (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) and **Terraform/Ansible**.
-   Solid understanding of security protocols across hybrid clouds: mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, OAuth2, API Key Management, and RBAC/ACLs.

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