Lead Application & Integration Architect

About the Role

This role leads and manages a team of Application & Integration Architects, setting team direction and key focus areas to ensure a high-performing and growing architecture practice. In addition to people leadership responsibilities, the role is responsible for the design of application-layer components and integration solutions across the product ecosystem, working closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to translate product requirements into sound technical designs.

Responsibilities

• Guide the team on direction and key focus areas, ensuring clarity of purpose and alignment across the Application & Integration Architecture practice
• Lead, mentor, and grow team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and a high-performing architecture practice
• Lead modernization initiatives across legacy and cloud-native platforms
• Consult and align with engineering teams to establish and maintain application integration design patterns and standards
• Drive adoption of reusable integration patterns to reduce delivery lead time across squads
• Partner with engineering teams to jointly drive application layer end-to-end solution design, ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, performance, and security
• Collaborate with DevOps (platform and SRE) teams ensuring observability and operational readiness are embedded into architecture designs
• Ensure application design solutions are reviewed and approved in accordance with the architecture governance process
• Work with engineering teams to review and align on detailed integration design, offering guidance and recommendations as a subject matter expert
• Collaborate with the procurement team to source and evaluate systems and tools that support the application layer design
• Work with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure application and integration architecture designs align with product requirements and platform standards

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering or technical leadership, with demonstrated experience in application or integration architecture
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing a team of Application & Integration Architects
• Deep expertise in microservices; able to design containerized applications that run effectively on Kubernetes
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to ensure designs support automated deployment and delivery
• Strong command of API design and management, including gateway, versioning, and security patterns
• Understanding of cloud-native services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to collaborate effectively with platform teams
• Proficiency with messaging and event streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with service mesh concepts (e.g. Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of domain-driven design, particularly bounded contexts and context mapping as applied to service and integration boundaries
• Experience in fintech, banking, or highly regulated industries
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Professional proficiency in both Thai and English, written and spoken
• Ability to work onsite 4 days a week