Enterprise Systems – Lead Integration Engineer

KKR's Gurugram office provides best-in-class business operations services and solutions to our internal stakeholders and clients, drives organization-wide process efficiency and transformation, and reflects KKR's global culture and values of teamwork and innovation. The office contains multifunctional business capabilities and is integral in furthering the growth and transformation of KKR. The office was established with an initial concentration of finance, operations, and technology personnel, followed by the expansion of additional functions and capabilities. KKR’s creation of a Gurugram office builds upon the firm's momentum in India and bolsters its existing presence in Mumbai.

TEAM OVERVIEW

KKR’s Technology team is responsible for building and supporting the firm’s technological foundation including a globally distributed infrastructure, information security, and application and data platforms. The team drives a culture of technology excellence across the firm through efficient workflow automation, democratization of data through modern data and collaboration platforms, and more recently through research and development of Generative AI based tools and services.

Technology is regarded as a key business enabler at KKR and is an important accelerator to drive towards global scale creation and business process transformation. A dedicated Program Management function along with the Product Managers drive execution discipline across multiple technology teams with a goal to consistently deliver excellence serving our business needs. The Technology team consists of highly technical and business centric technologists with the ability to form strong partnerships across all of our businesses.

POSITION SUMMARY

We are seeking a dynamic and technically proficient Integration Lead to join our engineering team supporting the firm’s Control Functions including Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Audit. This role is critical in bridging in-house engineering efforts and third-party SaaS platforms, enabling the delivery of cohesive, secure, and scalable technology solutions for stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in systems integration, enterprise architecture, data pipelines, and API management, with the ability to work cross-functionally across global product, data, infrastructure, and legal and compliance engineering teams.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Solution Architecture & Technical Vision
  •  Define and contribute towards the end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise integration across Control Function domains (Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Audit), ensuring alignment with the firm’s broader technology strategy and long-term roadmap.
  •  Evaluate and select integration patterns—event-driven, API-first, batch, and hybrid—based on business criticality, latency requirements, data sensitivity, and total cost of ownership.
  •  Establish and enforce architectural standards, design principles, and reference architectures that guide teams across the enterprise toward consistent, secure, and scalable integration practices.
  •  Lead technology radar and proof-of-concept initiatives to assess emerging platforms, middleware capabilities, and cloud-native integration services (e.g., AWS EventBridge, Azure Service Bus, MuleSoft, Workato) for strategic fit.
  •  Produce and maintain living architecture artifacts—context diagrams, integration landscape maps, data flow models, and decision records—to enable rapid onboarding and informed decision-making across engineering teams.
  
  
• Systems Integration Engineering
  •  Architect and oversee the implementation of complex integrations between in-house applications and enterprise SaaS platforms (e.g., Compliance Regulatory, Surveillance, AML/KYC, Conflict tools, Legal Matter/Expense Management, CLM, Entity Lifecycle Management).
  • Design resilient data pipelines, orchestration workflows, and API contracts that support real-time and near-real-time data exchange across heterogeneous systems with robust error handling, retry logic, and dead-letter queue strategies.
  • Drive the adoption of API governance frameworks—including versioning, deprecation policies, rate limiting, schema validation, and contract testing—to ensure interface reliability at scale.
  • Engineer secure data transformation, canonicalization, and enrichment layers to maintain data consistency and integrity as information traverses system boundaries.
  • Own integration performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and optimization—proactively identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to meet evolving throughput and latency SLAs.
  
  
• Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
  • Serve as the principal technical authority on systems integration, providing architectural guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to integration engineers and cross-functional development teams.
  • Champion engineering best practices including infrastructure-as-code, automated testing (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end), and observability-first design.
  • Contributes to build-vs-buy-vs-compose analysis for middleware, iPaaS, and integration tooling—presenting well-reasoned recommendations with quantified trade-offs to engineering leadership and business stakeholders.
  • Stay abreast of industry trends in enterprise integration, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture—translating insights into actionable improvements to KKR’s integration capabilities.
  
  
• Delivery Ownership & Operational Rigor
  • Own the full lifecycle of integration initiatives end-to-end: discovery, requirements elaboration, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-production stabilization.
  • Define and execute comprehensive integration testing strategies encompassing functional validation, performance/load testing, failover simulation, and data reconciliation to ensure production readiness.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident management frameworks for all integration touchpoints—ensuring rapid detection, triage, and resolution of data flow issues with minimal business impact.
  • Partner in vendor technical evaluations, onboarding, and ongoing API/integration governance with third-party SaaS providers—ensuring contractual SLAs and technical standards are met.
  • Supports cross-team delivery across product engineering, data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity—managing dependencies, resolving blockers, and ensuring timely, high-quality releases.
  
  
• Strategic Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement
  •  Act as the integration domain expert in strategic planning sessions, translating complex architectural concepts into business-relevant terms for senior stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, Risk, Audit, and Technology leadership.
  •  Partner with product owners and business analysts to shape integration requirements that balance functional needs, security/compliance mandates, and technical feasibility within realistic delivery timelines.
  •  Collaborate with enterprise data governance, cloud infrastructure, and information security teams to ensure all integrations adhere to the firm’s data classification policies, access controls, encryption standards, and regulatory obligations.
  •  Drive cross-functional alignment on integration priorities, capacity allocation, and sequencing through clear communication, well-structured proposals, and transparent trade-off analysis.
  •  Cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing by conducting architecture reviews, brown-bag sessions, and documentation sprints that raise the integration engineering maturity across the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise systems integration, with a focus on solutions for legal, compliance, or risk domains.
•  Strong hands-on experience in integrating platforms for Compliance and Legal workflows and solutions like – Compliance Regulatory, Surveillance AML/KYC, Conflict tools and Legal Matter/Expense, CLM, Entity lifecycle tools and platforms.
•  Proven success in integrating SaaS solutions into complex enterprise ecosystems.
•  Deep expertise in enterprise systems architecture (e.g., ERP, GRC, financial systems, SaaS platforms).
•  Strong background in system integration patterns, APIs, data pipelines, and service-oriented architecture (SOA or microservices).
•  Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
•  Experience working in regulated industries such as financial services or alternative asset management.
•  Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
•  Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery models.
•  Experience with event-driven architecture or low-code/no-code integration platforms.
•  Promotes the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and encourages innovative problem-solving.
•  Ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders