{"id":3842761,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mark43-senior-integration-architect","title":"Senior Integration Architect","company":{"id":179529,"name":"Mark43","domain":"mark43.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/mark43","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":28,"ghost_share":0.25,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":87,"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Manchester, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US","GB"],"hiring_countries_total":2,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"SOAP","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":true},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":true},{"name":"GDPR","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T22:20:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T22:57:20Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":1},"description":"Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the country in which the role is being hired. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.\nMark43’s mission is to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. We build powerful, scalable, and elegant software that sets a new standard for the tools upon which our first responders rely. Our users are diverse, and we are therefore committed to embracing diversity of thought and experience within our team.\nWe are seeking a Senior Integration Architect to design and deliver integrations for our UK customers. Mark43 works with a growing number of UK police forces, and this role is responsible for the integrations that connect Mark43 to their systems and to national policing and criminal justice services. You will manage UK interface projects from scoping through go-live and ongoing support, provide technical oversight of the partner and contractor teams who build integrations on our behalf, and ensure that their work meets Mark43’s standards. You will work closely with police forces, their suppliers and national system owners, as well as with Mark43’s UK delivery, engineering and customer success teams. This role reports to the Director of Integrations Architecture.\nWhat You’ll Do\nIn this role, you will:\nConduct scoping sessions with police forces to confirm which systems will connect to Mark43, how data will flow between them, and the effort required to deliver each integration.\nPrepare interface specifications and review them with forces and their suppliers through to formal sign-off before development begins.\nReview delivery partners’ integration designs, data mappings and test results, and approve their work before it is released to the customer.\nCoordinate onboarding, licensing and testing with the owners of national policing and criminal justice systems.\nTest integrations using force data within the UK, and work with forces to resolve mapping issues before user acceptance testing.\nInvestigate integration issues in test and production environments using logs, monitoring tools and data queries, and work with engineering and support teams to resolve them.\nWork with force IT and network teams and Mark43’s cloud engineers to establish secure connectivity for integrations, both on-premise and in the cloud.\nTrack the status of UK interface projects and report progress, risks and required actions to internal and customer stakeholders.\nSupport contract and tender reviews by assessing integration requirements and confirming that they can be delivered.\nWhat You’ll Need\nWe are seeking a candidate with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering system integrations, preferably for UK policing, criminal justice or other public sector organisations. You should be able to manage multiple integration projects concurrently, work directly with customers and their suppliers, and oversee the work of partner and contractor teams. The role also requires strong technical skills, including the ability to interpret API specifications, build and validate data mappings, analyse logs, and query data to diagnose issues. This is not a software development role, but you should be comfortable using Kubernetes and CI/CD tools to deploy integrations, check their status and investigate failures.\nThis role involves access to police data that must remain in the UK. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and be able to obtain and maintain Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3). Candidates who already hold NPPV3 will be preferred.\nThe ideal candidate will also demonstrate the following qualities:\nDriven. You take the initiative to keep projects moving and resolve blockers without waiting for direction.\nHighly organised. You manage multiple concurrent projects and prioritise work effectively as deadlines and customer needs change.\nAccountable. You take ownership of project outcomes, including work delivered by partners and contractors.\nComposed under pressure. You respond to critical interface issues methodically and keep customers informed throughout.\nStrong communicator. You explain technical trade-offs clearly to both force project boards and engineering teams.\nSound judgement. You make well-reasoned decisions when requirements are incomplete or still evolving.\nRelevant Skills\nIntegration Design & Delivery:\nREST and SOAP APIs; XML and JSON\nData mapping, transformation and validation\nMessage-based and file-based integrations, including secure file transfer\nIntegration platforms (iPaaS)\nTroubleshooting & Diagnostics:\nUsing logging and monitoring tools to investigate integration errors and failures\nTracing messages end to end to identify where data is rejected, incorrectly mapped or lost\nDiagnosing connectivity, authentication and certificate issues\nSQL for querying and validating data\nCloud, Deployment & Networking:\nWorking knowledge of AWS and Linux\nFamiliarity with containers and Kubernetes, including reviewing workload status and logs\nFamiliarity with CI/CD and GitOps deployment tools such as Argo CD\nNetworking fundamentals, including firewalls, private connectivity and certificates\nUK Policing & Criminal Justice (desirable):\nNational systems such as PNC/LEDS, PND, IDENT1 and the Common Platform\nCommand and control, custody, case management, intelligence and property systems used by UK forces\nData protection requirements for police data, including UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018\nDelivery & Stakeholder Management:\nOverseeing third-party and contractor delivery teams\nReporting status and risk to customer project boards\nReviewing contracts, statements of work and tender requirements for integration scope\nWhat We Offer \n28 days holiday plus UK bank holidays \nPrivate medical, dental, and vision insurance through AXA Health and BUPA, fully paid for you and your dependents \n18 weeks paid parental leavefor primary caregivers plus a ramp-back programme \n Income protection (75% of salary) and death in service cover (4x salary), fully paid \nPension through Nest with 3% employer contribution \nGym reimbursement for you and your partner \nEquipment allowance to set up your home office \nAI tooling including Claude Code Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise licences provided \nSpring Health membership with therapy sessions and mental wellness tools, fully covered \nCompany performance-based bonus \nPaid sabbatical of one month at your five-year anniversary \nBiannual hackathons, learning budget, and a team that genuinely invests in your growth \nWhat We Value \nHumility. You know the best ideas win, no matter where they come from. You ask questions before making assumptions and you're as happy being wrong as being right, because either way, the team gets to a better answer. \nInclusivity. You respect expertise in all its forms and actively seek out perspectives different from your own. You make space for others and assume good intent. \nExcellence. You care about quality in your code, your reviews, and how you communicate. You're not satisfied with \"it works\" when it could be better, and you encourage the same standard in those around you. \nDiligence. You take ownership, mind the details, and understand that the software we build is used in moments that genuinely matter. You don't cut corners when people are depending on the outcome. \nLocation\nThis role has travel to police forces and partner sites across the UK as required. As most of the Integrations Architecture team is based in the US, some meetings will take place in the UK afternoon or early evening.\nMark43 is approved to hire in Canada, the UK, and 36 U.S. states, including Alabama, Arizona, California (excluding San Francisco), Colorado, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia. Before applying to a remote role, please ensure that you are able to perform the position in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. \nOur Privacy Notice describes how Mark43 uses and protects the personal information of prospective employees during the recruitment process. It informs you about our handling of the personal information you provide to us when you apply for a position in our organization and in general when you express your interest in joining our team.\nAs a part of Mark43's security measures all employees must: Engage in appropriate use of the company's electronic information resources; Become knowledgeable about and follow relevant security policies and guidelines; Protect the resources under their control, such as passwords, computers, and data that they create, receive, or download; and Promptly report security-related incidents and violations, and responding to official reports of security incidents involving their systems or accounts.\nMark43 is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. 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