Exciting opportunity for an experienced Integration Lead to join our client based in Melbourne. This is a permanent position with a highly regarded organisation, offering the chance to play a key leadership role in driving enterprise integration initiatives.

The role is both technical and strategic , requiring a hands-on leader who can define integration roadmaps, design scalable solutions, and provide technical leadership across complex business and technology projects. You will work closely with stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to ensure integration platforms and services align with organisational goals and best practices

Position Purpose The Integration Lead will develop, configure and support integrations between Projects and Client enterprise systems. Experienced integration engineers ready to step into a formal lead role - someone passionate about API and event-driven architecture, skilled in MuleSoft and Confluent Cloud, and motivated by building integrations that power critical services for millions of Victorians every day.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end technical delivery of API, event, and file-transfer solutions.

- Contribute hands-on to complex MuleSoft flows, Data Weave
- transformations, and Confluent event-driven components when required.
- Make autonomous technical and architectural decisions for integration
- workstreams and hold accountability for outcomes. Serve as the primary technical escalation point.
- Provide expert input into platform investment decisions and architectural direction.
- Represent the integration practice in Architecture, Security, .NET, and Product engagements.
- Drive adoption of the integration pattern library and API standards framework.





Essential Experience

- Hands-on development experience with Confluent Cloud / Apache Kafka - building producers and consumers, designing event schemas, managing schema registry, and implementing event-driven patterns in code; able to write and review Kafka application code.
- Hands-on development expertise in MuleSoft - building integration flows, DataWeave transformations, error handling strategies, and deploying to CloudHub; able to write and review production-quality MuleSoft code
- •Solid working knowledge of AWS API Gateway - API deployment, usage plans, authorisers, andintegration with backend services; experience managing APIs through AWS API Gateway in productionenvironments.
- AWS Transfer Family for managed file transfer - configuration, endpoint management, and file-basedintegration patterns.
- RESTful API design - standards, versioning, OAuth2/mTLS/API key authentication, and gatewayintegration across both MuleSoft Anypoint and AWS API Gateway.
- Establishing and enforcing coding standards, code review processes, static analysis tooling, andunit/integration testing practices across the team.
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automated deployment practices.
- Working knowledge of secure development practices including OWASP principles, data-in-transit/atrest encryption, and access control patterns relevant to customer-facing digital services.

Desirable

- Azure Integration Services.
- Microsoft Power Platform.
- Boomi or MuleSoft exposure.
- Java or C# development experience.
- Financial Services experience.

If you're interested in this role, click “Apply” or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to [email protected]

📌 Integration Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Hays
📍 Melbourne