Integration Architect

Responsibilities

• Define the integration architecture, API contracts, data models, authentication patterns, and event flows connecting Backstage to enterprise observability, ITSM, and monitoring platforms
• Architect the Monitoring Integration capability, embed existing dashboards (e.g., Grafana/LGTM) per catalog entity, and establish entity-to-dashboard mapping and authentication passthrough
• Design the ITSM/CMDB integration, including the Configuration Item (CI) schema mapping layer, catalog-to-CMDB and ownership/tag synchronization jobs, ticket-creation flows, and reconciliation/error handling
• Architect the GitOps integration with ArgoCD, covering plugin integration, API authentication, entity-annotation mapping, and RBAC projection to provide deployment-status visibility within the developer portal
• Own the Announcements and Notifications integration, including upstream plugin configuration, notification channels such as email/Teams webhooks, and publisher RBAC
• Define the Databases Visibility integration for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, and the Search integration with Elasticsearch/pgsearch backend and catalog/TechDocs indexers
• Architect the SDD Document Generation capability, defining how architecture documentation is generated from repository/catalog metadata and infrastructure-as-code module outputs, triggered via Backstage actions/templates
• Design dashboards, reporting, and enterprise-integration views spanning Backstage, Infrastructure, and Integration workstreams
• Collaborate with the Backstage Architect on plugin/data-model alignment and with the Azure and VMware Architects to ensure infrastructure telemetry and metadata are correctly surfaced in the portal
• Provide integration-architecture governance during Implementation, validate end-to-end service visibility, and support monitoring, reconciliation, and documentation-generation processes during Adoption

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