Full job descriptionAzure 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.