Azure Integration & Automation Manager (API Expert)

Azure Integration & Automation Manager (API Expert)
Watford (2-3 days per week)
£90000 + Package.

This role cannot offer visa sponsorship

Your new company
I am working exclusively with a major UK construction business delivering complex programmes that have a real impact on the UK's infrastructure and wider economy. They are investing heavily in technology as a core enabler of future growth, with a clear focus on cloud, automation and modern architecture.

As part of this transformation, they are building a truly enterprise level integration capability and need an experienced Azure Integration & Automation Manager. This is not about maintaining legacy interfaces. It is about defining how the organisation connects systems, enables data flow and automates business processes for the future. There is strong senior backing, real funding and the opportunity to shape something meaningful from an early stage.

Your new role
This is a high impact leadership role sitting at the centre of architecture, engineering and business change. You will take ownership of the integration and API capability across the organisation, shaping both the strategy and how it is delivered in practice.

You will define what good looks like when it comes to API design, lifecycle management and governance, while establishing a clear and scalable approach to integration that supports long term agility. Working closely with architects and senior stakeholders, you will translate strategic direction into an operating model that delivers real outcomes, whether that is enabling automation, improving reuse or reducing complexity.

The role combines strategic ownership with hands on technical credibility. You will act as the organisation's subject matter expert in Azure API Management, guiding design decisions, influencing engineering teams and ensuring consistency in how integration is approached. Alongside this, you will oversee delivery through a mix of internal capability and specialist partners, shaping a service that operates with a product mindset and clear roadmap.

It is a role where you can genuinely leave a mark, both in terms of technical direction and how integration is positioned as a critical enabler across the wider business.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be an expert with Microsoft Azure with experience across enterprise integration, APIs and automation. You are comfortable operating at both a technical and strategic level, able to engage architects and engineers in detail while also influencing senior stakeholders and communicating clearly to non technical audiences.

A strong grounding in Azure API Management and API lifecycle design is important, alongside a good understanding of modern architectural approaches such as API led and event driven design. You will have experience simplifying integration landscapes, promoting reuse and establishing standards that scale across complex environments.

You will also be comfortable working within a multi supplier model, managing partners and ensuring delivery meets expectations, while maintaining a clear view of the longer term direction.

Above all, you will combine technical credibility with the ability to lead, influence and shape how integration is done properly within a large organisation.

What you'll get in return
You'll receive a competitive corporate benefits package including bonus scheme, great pension scheme, life assurance and financial wellbeing tools. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a genuinely strategic capability within a well-respected organisation that is investing heavily in its technology function. You will have the backing to define the direction, the scope to implement change and the visibility to make an impact at a senior level.

What you need to do now
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