Integration Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead the team tasked with the development, delivery, and maintenance of integration services.

• Provide leadership across personnel, delivery, and service reliability.

• Ensure that integration capabilities are secure, scalable, and aligned with the University’s digital priorities.

• Cultivate a sustainable in-house engineering function.

• Enhance technical expertise and preserve institutional knowledge.

• Collaborate with stakeholders throughout the University to prioritize demands.

• Monitor technical quality and manage operational risks.

• Guarantee reliable integration across student, learning, academic, customer, and AI-enabled platforms.

• Supervise governance and support for API management and event-driven services.

• Integrate Arden’s systems with cloud-based and agentic AI capabilities.

• Assist in the University’s continuous digital transformation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading a software engineering, cloud platform, middleware, or integration engineering team.

• Experience in people management, coaching, and performance development.

• Proven ability to translate organizational priorities into an integration roadmap, prioritized backlog, and achievable delivery plans.

• Strong knowledge of software engineering, API management, event-driven architecture, cloud integration, DevSecOps, and service management.

• Experience in overseeing integration solutions across AWS and GCP, including APIs, messaging, data integration, and event-driven services.

• Capability to provide technical assurance across architecture, security, resilience, supportability, and cost.

• Experience in managing production services, major incidents, problem management, change and release processes, service continuity, and continuous improvement.

• Proven track record in establishing engineering standards, quality controls, documentation practices, and measurable service outcomes.

• Experience in managing permanent staff, contractors, and suppliers while developing sustainable in-house capability.

• Strong skills in stakeholder, supplier, and financial management, including budget oversight, cloud costs, workforce planning, and resource allocation.

• Excellent communication and negotiation abilities.

• Familiarity with relevant cloud, architecture, IT service management, security, or leadership certifications is preferred.

• Formal training in Agile, product, programme, or portfolio management is advantageous.

• Experience with platform or integration centers of enablement is a plus.

• Knowledge of AI-enabled and agentic integration patterns is desirable.

• Experience with PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, or ISO 42001 is a plus.

• Familiarity with Azure integration services, including Service Bus, Logic Apps, Function Apps, and API Management, is preferred.

• Background in higher education, cross-cloud environments, or AI-enabled services is advantageous.

• Understanding of resilient messaging, API governance, observability, and service continuity principles is desirable.

• No skilled worker visa sponsorship is available.

🏝️ Benefits

• 30 days of holiday in addition to bank holidays.

• Christmas closure.

• Aviva pension plan with company contributions starting at 7%.

• BUPA Cash Plan.

• Private Medical Insurance coverage for specific job roles.

• Perkbox benefits.

• Free study on any Arden course.

• Discount for family and friends on Arden courses.

• Golden Ticket allowing you to gift someone in your life a free Arden education.