Automotive Integration Engineer
Engineer reliable integration between connected-product, enterprise and operational systems in automotive and mobility environments.
Job description
The Automotive Integration Engineer will support integration across vehicle-related data flows, digital products and enterprise platforms for automotive and mobility programmes.
The role focuses on interface reliability, event flows, data contracts, security boundaries and operational visibility.
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement APIs, messaging and event-driven integration patterns.
- Define data contracts, error handling, retry behaviour and interface monitoring.
- Work with product, enterprise and cloud teams to resolve cross-system dependencies.
- Support automated integration testing and production observability.
- Document interface ownership, operational procedures and known failure modes.
Qualifications
- 4–8 years of integration, backend or platform-engineering experience.
- Strong REST/API and messaging experience with Java, .NET or comparable backend technologies.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed-system reliability.
- Experience with cloud platforms, SQL and production troubleshooting.
Preferred qualifications
- Automotive, mobility, telematics or connected-product experience.
- Kafka, MQTT, container or observability-platform experience.
- Knowledge of secure integration and high-volume event-processing patterns.
Benefits & employment terms
- Compensation, leave, pension and any role-specific benefits are confirmed during the recruitment process and stated in the written offer.
- Any client-site, travel, security-screening or right-to-work requirements are confirmed before appointment.
Nature of working style
- This role is strongly client- and integration-team aligned and may involve workshops with multiple system owners.
- The engineer is expected to make dependencies, interface assumptions and operational risks explicit throughout delivery.
Location
UK client-aligned role. Exact location depends on the automotive programme and is confirmed before assignment.
