Azure Integration & Automation Manager

Azure Integration & Automation Manager

• Annual Salary: Competitive (to be discussed)
• Location: Leavesden Park, Watford
• Job Type: Full-time, 3 days a week onsite 

A new excellent permanent role for an experience Azure Integration & Automation Manager to lead Integration and API capability, designing, delivering, and scaling a modern, API-led integration service that enhances business agility, digital automation, and composable architecture across a leading enterprise construction, engineering business. 

This role is pivotal in bridging architecture and delivery, combining hands-on technical leadership with service ownership, vendor management, and product-style roadmap management.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Lead Enterprise Integration & API Strategy:

  • Own and evolve the Integration & API Management strategy, aligned with digital and business priorities.
  • Define and promote a composable API architecture, ensuring APIs are designed around business capabilities.
  • Act as the design authority for API Management, including API lifecycle, security, versioning, governance, and reuse.

• Be the Organisation’s API & Integration Expert:

  • Serve as the go-to authority on Azure API Management, API design standards, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Lead API design reviews and ensure consistent adoption of API-first and event-driven patterns.
  • Drive adoption of reusable APIs to reduce point-to-point integrations and accelerate delivery.

• Deliver Integration as a Scalable Service:

  • Run Integration & Automation as a product-led service, with a clear roadmap, service definition, and engagement model.
  • Operate and evolve a factory delivery model, supporting predictable, repeatable integration and automation delivery.

• Lead People and Partners:

  • Manage and develop a specialist Automation / Integration Engineer, setting technical direction and quality standards.
  • Lead service escalations and delivery risks where integration is business critical.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience delivering enterprise Azure integration and automation services 
• Strong experience with Azure API Management, API lifecycle management, and secure API design.
• Good understanding of Azure API-led, composable, and event-driven architecture at enterprise scale.
• Comfortable operating as a hands-on technical SME while engaging credibly with architects, engineers, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Vendor and contract management capability, focused on value, performance, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to manage an API and integration roadmap as a product, informed by demand, feedback, and data.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Confident influencing delivery priorities, design decisions, and architectural standards across teams.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and leadership.
• Engaging and innovative work environment.
• Strategic role with impact across the organisation.

To apply for the Integration & Automation Manager position, please submit your CV to be immediately considered.