Integration Services Lead

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12 August 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

JOB TITLE: Integration Services Lead

TYPE OF CONTRACT: CST Level 2

UNIT/DIVISION: Technology Digital Services

DUTY STATION (City, Country): Remote

DURATION: 11 Months

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The Technology Division (TEC) is advancing a strategic digital transformation initiative to modernize, integrate, and evolve its corporate digital solutions ecosystem. Central to this transformation is the Integration Services Team, a cross-cutting capability within TECD responsible for ensuring that WFP’s growing portfolio of digital solutions integrates as a coherent, interoperable, and enterprise-grade landscape.

The Integration Services Team enables and governs the Enterprise Integration Hub, a practice that spans across three strategic pillars: API Integrations, Custom Integrations, and AI Integrations. These key capabilities compose the full spectrum of WFP system interconnection needs.

The Integration Services Lead will serve as the strategic and operational point of reference for the entire Integration Services (and the EIH). The incumbent will be responsible for shaping the vision, standards, and methodologies that govern how WFP’s digital solutions interconnect, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and the broader digital transformation roadmap. This is a senior advisory and coordination role that requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence and guide multidisciplinary teams across the organization.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the general supervision of the Chief of TECD and the functional guidance of the Director of Information Technology, the Integration Services Lead will be responsible for the following:

Strategic Leadership and Practice Governance

• Define and drive the strategic vision, roadmap, and maturity model for the Integration Services practice across the organization;
• Coordinate and supervise the Integration Services team members (internal staff and vendor resources), ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and quality standards;
• Establish and enforce integration design principles, patterns, and standards (synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven) to ensure a loosely coupled, well-encapsulated, and interoperable IT ecosystem;
• Liaise with divisions, units, and teams within and outside TEC to shape a trustworthy, professional, and well-governed integration landscape;
• Define the strategic roadmap for AI integration, including the enterprise MCP Gateway, the A2A approach and the AI Gateway.
• Provide authoritative guidance on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices, and interoperability approaches within the WFP ecosystem;
• Serve as the organizational custodian for integration principles, ensuring their adoption and consistent implementation across all corporate services;
• Foster a healthy community of developers, architects, and solution designers where knowledge about integrations best practices is exchanged transparently and collaboratively.

Architecture, Cloud, and Operational Excellence

• Collaborate in the design and architecture of the corporate WFP API ecosystem and the other types of integrations;
• Embrace and promote a full cloud-native, pipeline-based approach ensuring high technical quality and compliance with WFP standards (architecture, security, technology stack);
• Constantly identify opportunities to optimize Integration Services components in terms of costs, resiliency, scalability, and response times;
• Oversee the cloud hosting / IPaaS landscape to ensure proper, robust, secure, and resilient service delivery;
• Guide WFP development teams on how to design and implement their integration interfaces to deliver maximum value for the organization.

Security and Observability

• Work with IT Security to review, monitor, and control integration points through a professionally designed and operated observability layer;
• Ensure adherence to the “rugged software” manifesto principles across all integration development activities;
• Support the Vulnerability Management framework led by TECI across the Integration Services infrastructure;
• Regularly review, audit, and test the security compliance of the Integration Services components and integration touchpoints.

Developer Experience and Knowledge Management

• Write and maintain enterprise-grade technical documentation for the Integration Services portfolio, ensuring quality, accuracy, and comprehensive coverage;
• Champion the API-first principle and promote mastery of the OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specifications across developer communities;
• Provide support to developers and product owners in the consumption of corporate APIs, and enhance the accessibility and adherence to industry standards of the API Gateway;
• Deliver training, developer guides, and onboarding materials on integration capabilities, reducing time-to-market and enabling autonomous consumption of the Digital Core.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education: A bachelor university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Experience: Minimum 10 years of international professional experience in enterprise IT, with a strong focus on integration architecture, API management, and digital platform governance. At least 5 years in coordination or leadership capacity over multidisciplinary technical teams.

Proven track record combining strategic and hands-on experience including:

• Enterprise integration strategy: definition, governance, and evolution of integration patterns and standards across complex IT landscapes.
• Stakeholder engagement and advisory: ability to translate technical complexity into actionable guidance for diverse audiences (developers, architects, product owners, senior management).

Knowledge & Skills:

Demonstrated expertise in integration methodologies and enterprise architecture practices

• Deep expertise in API lifecycle management, REST API design, mediation, monitoring, and governance
• Strong knowledge of integration platforms (including IPaaS), API gateways, and enterprise integration technologies
• Solid experience in designing and implementing SOA, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Experience with OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specification standards
• Proven experience managing complex cloud environments and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in data integration and pipeline implementation methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD principles, DevOps practices, and Git-based version control workflows.
• Experience working in Agile environments and managing cross-functional delivery teams.

A high degree of autonomy, strategic thinking, and self-management is required. The incumbent is expected to independently identify challenges, propose solutions, and drive initiatives, escalating to senior management for endorsement on matters of organizational scope.

Languages:

English

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