Lead Integration Architect

Job Description

Agilent Technologies is connecting a diverse portfolio of instruments, applications, and platform services into a unified software ecosystem. The Lead Integration Architect is a senior individual contributor role responsible for defining and operationalizing the integration architecture standards and reference patterns that enable interoperability across Agilent's software platform and partner divisions.
This role owns integration architecture at the standards and governance level, establishing API design patterns, event-driven architecture standards, schema governance, and versioning frameworks that product teams adopt across the portfolio. You are a hands-on technical leader who bridges strategy and execution: defining the patterns, reviewing critical designs, and actively influencing teams to adopt consistent, scalable integration approaches.
 

Responsibilities:

• Design and own integration architecture solutions across the software platform, instruments, applications, and enterprise systems
• Define integration standards and reference architectures: API design, event-driven patterns, schema governance, and versioning, and validate their implementation in practice
• Architect and hands-on guide containerized integration solutions using Kubernetes, ensuring platform-grade reliability, scalability, and operability
• Review and approve critical integration designs across product teams, making binding architecture decisions where standards are at stake
• Build and maintain a library of reusable integration patterns and reference implementations, working code and blueprints, not just documentation
• Partner across divisions as the go-to integration authority, solving complex cross-system and cross-organizational architecture problems directly
• Define integration contracts between platform services, instruments, and enterprise systems, owning technical quality of those interfaces
• Identify and actively remediate integration patterns that introduce technical debt, bypass governance, or create cross-team coupling risks

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years of software engineering or architecture experience, with 5+ years in hands-on integration architecture roles
• Deep practical expertise across the full integration stack: REST/GraphQL API design, event-driven architecture (Kafka, MQTT, or equivalent), asynchronous messaging, and schema governance
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, deploying, operating, and architecting containerized workloads at platform scale
• Experience with Docker and cloud-native deployment patterns across edge and cloud environments
• Demonstrated track record of delivering integration solutions, not just defining patterns but owning their design and technical quality through implementation
• Experience setting and enforcing API versioning, schema management, and contract-based integration standards
• Ability to make and defend binding architecture decisions across teams with competing priorities

Preferred:

• Experience in scientific instrumentation, laboratory software, or regulated industries (life sciences, diagnostics)
• Familiarity with service mesh, API gateway, and platform-level integration infrastructure
• Experience integrating AI/ML inference services and data pipelines through governed integration patterns
• Background working across organizational boundaries, integrating systems owned by separate divisions or external partners
• Exposure to GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and DevSecOps practices in a platform engineering context

Additional Details

This job has a full time weekly schedule. Applications for this job will be accepted until at least June 30, 2026 or until the job is no longer posted.

The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $183,648.00 - $286,950.00/yr plus eligibility for bonus, stock and benefits. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. During the hiring process, a recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for a preferred location. Pay and benefit information by country are available at: https://careers.agilent.com/locations

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and merit-based employer that values individuals of all backgrounds at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases. Agilent Technologies, Inc., is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive in the workplace where everyone is welcome, and strives to support candidates with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance with any part of the application or interview process or have questions about workplace accessibility, please email [email protected] or contact +1-262-754-5030. For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please visit www.agilent.com/en/accessibility.Travel Required: 25% of the TimeShift: DayDuration: No End DateJob Function: R&D