Integration Architect – Digital Platforms Engineer & Delivery

Company: Corebridge Financial
Location: Houston
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

Who We Are At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That’s why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow. We align to a set of Values that are the core pillars that define our culture and help bring our brand purpose to life: We are stronger as one: We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act decisively for our customers and partners. We deliver on commitments: We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders. We learn, improve and innovate: We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future. We are inclusive: We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work. Who You’ll Work With The Information Technology organization is the technological foundation of our business and works in collaboration with our partners from across the company. The team drives technology and digital transformation, partners with business leaders to design and execute new strategies through IT and operations services and ensures the necessary IT risk management and security measures are in place and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and principles. About The Role An Integration Architect is a senior role that acts as the blueprint designer and technical leader for how the organization's various software systems, applications, and data sources connect, communicate, and exchange data efficiently and securely. This role is essential for streamlining business processes, ensuring data integrity, and enabling digital transformation initiatives. They define the strategy, patterns, and governance for data exchange to ensure system compatibility, scalability, and efficiency across the organization. The primary objective of an Integration Architect is to eliminate silos and create a unified, seamless flow of information across the enterprise's diverse and often disparate technology landscape, which may range from modern cloud services to legacy systems. They ensure the entire system is reliable, scalable, and aligned with long-term business goals. Responsibilities Integration Strategy & Planning: Define the enterprise-wide integration strategy, roadmap, principles to alignment with business objectives and technology standards. Requirements Analysis: Work closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, and product owners to gather, analyze, and translate complex business requirements into robust technical integration specifications. Design and Architecture: Architect high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant integration solutions using appropriate patterns (e.g., API-first, event-driven, batch, point-to-point) and technologies such as APIs, microservices, Enterprise Service Buses (ESB), message queues, and cloud integration platforms (iPaaS). Governance and Standards: Establish and enforce integration standards, best practices, and governance processes to ensure consistency, quality, security, and compliance across projects. Technology Selection & Implementation: Select and implement appropriate integration technologies, including middleware, API gateways, and cloud-based platforms, providing guidance on configuration and deployment. Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership to development teams, conduct code and design reviews, and mentor junior developers on best practices and standards. Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive architecture documentation, including high-level and detailed diagrams, data flow models, technical specifications, and operating guidelines. Testing & Quality Assurance: Oversee integration testing (unit, system, UAT) and coordinate with QA teams to ensure solutions meet quality, compliance, and security standards. Monitoring & Optimization: Monitor the health, performance, and capacity of existing integrations, troubleshoot issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement performance tuning strategies. Collaboration & Leadership: Work closely with product owners, developers, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, communicate the Integration value proposition. Integration: Oversee the design of solutions that integrate diverse software systems, applications, databases, and cloud-native platforms. Performance & Scalability: Define non-functional requirements and implement strategies for performance optimization, caching, rate limiting, throughput, ordering and ensuring system reliability. Tools & Infrastructure: Select and leverage API gateways (Amazon API Gateway), service meshes (Istio, VPC Lattice), Queues (SQS, Amazon MQ – Rabbit MQ/Apache Active MQ), Event Buses, Routers and Pipes (Amazon EventBridge), Workflows (AWS Step Functions), Serverless Functions (AWS Lambda) and Streaming Platforms (Kafka, Kinesis). Skills and Qualifications Technical Acumen: Integration Patterns & Methods: Expertise in event-driven, publish-subscribe, hub-and-spoke, microservices, and data integration. Platforms & Tools: Proficient with iPaaS, message brokers, event routers, queues, ETL, API gateways, and cloud services (AWS). APIs: Strong skills in API design, management, and development (REST, SOAP). Data & Databases: Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, data warehousing, and data transformation. Programming: Knowledge of languages like Java, JavaScript for custom solutions. DevOps/Agile: CI/CD, automation, and Agile/Scrum methodologies. Security: Data security, privacy, and compliance in integrations. Cloud & Infrastructure Proficiency: Competency in leveraging cloud-native platforms, managing API gateways, service meshes and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation. Performance Engineering: Skill in defining non-functional requirements (NFRs) and implementing strategies for optimization, caching, throughput, ordering rate limiting, and overall system reliability and scalability. Integration Expertise: The ability to design solutions that seamlessly integrate diverse software systems, applications, databases, and platforms. Strategic Positioning : The capability to define a clear vision, establish enterprise-wide standards, and ensure governance throughout the Integration journey. Proficiency in managing the entire Integration process, from planning and design reviews through testing and deployment. Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with product owners, developers, and stakeholders, providing technical leadership and mentorship while clearly articulating complex architectural decisions to non-technical audiences. The ability to define strategies for telemetry, monitoring and usage, and ensuring comprehensive, high-quality documentation for internal and external developers. Partnership: Effectively partners with business functions and the enterprise to leverage economies of scale meeting a complex set of needs and objectives through Integration. Cultural Adaptability: Values and consider the perspectives of diverse parties in a global context. A role model and organizational leader. Talent Cultivation: Is a talent magnet and has proven skills in nurturing and developing talent. Critical Thinking: Able to identify, anticipate and prevent businesses problems and match an appropriate solution; Demonstrates intellectual curiosity identifying or anticipating issues within the client base and the ability to match an optimal API solution. Decision Quality / Risk Mindset: Demonstrates good judgement and knows when to involve others; Uses data, logic, analysis, and experience to make evidence-based decisions. Learning Agility: Demonstrates a progressive growth mindset through an ability and willingness to learn from experiences and new situations; Applies past experience to proactively identify opportunities. Required Experience : Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or proven record of experience. 7 years of experience in Integration design, architecture, and development. Strong expertise with REST, GraphQL, event-driven APIs, and microservices architectures. An understanding of the financial services industry. Hands-on experience with designing secure Integrations using authentication/authorization frameworks. Proven ability to integrate APIs across diverse applications, software systems, and data sources. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation). Strong understanding of session management, token strategies, and secure communication protocols. JavaScript, Java knowledge. Experience with API gateways (Amazon API Gateway), service meshes (Istio, VPC Lattice), Queues (SQS, Amazon MQ – Rabbit MQ/Apache Active MQ), Event Buses, Routers and Pipes (Amazon EventBridge), Workflows (AWS Step Functions), Serverless Functions (AWS Lambda) and Streaming Platforms (Kafka, Kinesis). Experience with MCP. Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and cloud-native deployment models. Experience with monitoring and observability tools (AWS CloudWatch / CloudTrail, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry). Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Preferred Qualifications : Deep knowledge of Amazon API Gateway, Istio, VPC Lattice, SQS, Amazon MQ – Rabbit MQ/Apache Active MQ, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Kafka, Kinesis. Knowledge of MCP. Certification in Cloud (AWS). Compensation The anticipated salary range for this position is $122,000 to $145,000 at the commencement of employment for the Jersey City, NJ area. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered will ultimately be dependent on multiple factors, which may include the candidate’s geographic location, skills, experience and other qualifications. In addition, the position is eligible for a discretionary bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan. Corebridge also offers a range of competitive benefits as part of the total compensation package, as detailed below. Work Location This position is based in Corebridge Financial’s Houston, TX, or Jersey City, NJ office and is subject to our hybrid working policy, which gives colleagues the benefits of working both in an office and remotely. Estimated Travel May include up to 25%. LI-SAFG LI-CW1 LI-Hybrid Why Corebridge? At Corebridge Financial, we prioritize the health, well-being, and work-life balance of our employees. Our comprehensive benefits and wellness program is designed to support employees both personally and professionally, ensuring that they have the resources and flexibility needed to thrive. Benefit Offerings Include: Health and Wellness: We offer a range of medical, dental and vision insurance plans, as well as mental health support and wellness initiatives to promote overall well-being. Retirement Savings: We offer retirement benefits options, which vary by location. In the U.S., our competitive 401(k) Plan offers a generous dollar-for-dollar Company matching contribution of up to 6% of eligible pay and a Company contribution equal to 3% of eligible pay (subject to annual IRS limits and Plan terms). These Company contributions vest immediately. Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counseling services and resources are available to all employees. Matching charitable donations: Corebridge matches donations to tax-exempt organizations 1:1, up to $5,000. Volunteer Time Off: Employees may use up to 16 volunteer hours annually to support activities that enhance and serve communities where employees live and work. Paid Time Off: Eligible employees start off with at least 24 Paid Time Off (PTO) days so they can take time off for themselves and their families when they need it. Eligibility for and participation in employer-sponsored benefit plans and Company programs will be subject to applicable law, governing Plan document(s) and Company policy. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer Corebridge Financial, is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and we comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment laws. All applicants will be considered for employment based on job-related qualifications and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. The Company is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. At Corebridge Financial, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to building a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability. Through a wide variety of programs and initiatives, we invest in each employee, seeking to ensure that our colleagues are respected as individuals and valued for their unique perspectives. Corebridge Financial is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees, including any accommodations needed on the basis of physical or mental disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to complete any part of the application or hiring process, please send an email to TalentandInclusion@corebridgefinancial.com . Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law. To learn more please visit: www.corebridgefinancial.com Functional Area: IT - Information Technology Estimated Travel Percentage (%): No Travel Relocation Provided: No American General Life Insurance Company

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