Application Integration Architect

Job Description

Assoc. Director, Application Integration Architect - Technical Architecture

Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
  
  

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech CenteThe Lab Integration Platform is a critical enabler of digital transformation strategy, supporting secure, compliant, and efficient data exchange across laboratory systems.

Application Integration Architect

We are seeking a highly experienced Application Integration Architect to join our company. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of enterprise integration solutions across real-time, batch, and streaming platforms. You will be responsible for defining scalable, secure, and resilient integration architectures leveraging MuleSoft, Kong API Gateway, Informatica IDMC, and Kafka. If you have strong architectural leadership, hands-on expertise in modern integration patterns, and the ability to align integration strategy with enterprise data and application ecosystems, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement enterprise integration architecture across API, batch, and streaming paradigms
• Design API-led connectivity architectures using MuleSoft and REST/GraphQL standards
• Establish integration patterns including event-driven, message-based, and batch processing architectures
• Architect secure and scalable API ecosystems using Kong (API Gateway/Management)
• Lead development and governance of integrations across MuleSoft (Anypoint Platform), Kafka, and Informatica IDMC
• Drive alignment with enterprise integration standards, frameworks, and reusable assets
• Oversee end-to-end integration solution delivery across multiple teams and platforms

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• Ensure implementation of best practices in CI/CD for integration services, monitoring, logging, and observability, and error handling and resiliency patterns
• Collaborate with product teams, data engineers, and application architects to translate requirements into scalable solutions
• Establish API governance covering security, versioning, lifecycle, and documentation
• Enforce standards for authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT, etc.)
• Maintain integration catalogs, runbooks, and architecture artifacts
• Drive adoption of reusable integration frameworks and patterns
• Evaluate emerging integration technologies and recommend adoption strategies
• Lead architecture reviews, POCs, and modernization initiatives
• Contribute to enterprise-wide transformation toward event-driven and API-first architecture
  
  

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Minimum 6+ years of experience in architecture roles focused on application and data integration
• Strong experience in both real-time integration (APIs, events, streaming) and batch integration (ETL/ELT, data pipelines)
• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (API design, RAML/OpenAPI, API-led connectivity)
• Kong API Gateway / API Management
• Apache Kafka / Confluent (event streaming, pub-sub patterns)
• Informatica IDMC (Data Integration, batch pipelines, ETL/ELT)

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• API protocols REST, SOAP, GraphQL (preferred)
• Messaging & integration patterns MQ, event-driven, CDC, ESB-style flows
• Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and microservices architecture (preferred)
  
  

Preferred

• Experience in pharma/life sciences or regulated industries (nice-to-have)
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, and enterprise data platforms
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration skills
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
  
  

Join our company and be part of a team that uses the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.

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Who We Are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What We Look For

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills

Emerging Technologies, Methods and Tools, Requirements Management, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Technical Advice

Preferred Skills

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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation

VISA Sponsorship

Travel Requirements

Flexible Work Arrangements

Not Applicable

Shift

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Hazardous Material(s)

Job Posting End Date

06/29/2026

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Requisition ID R401738