EMERON.IO / GLOBAL GOV-TECH / EST. 2013
ACADEMY TRUST

Integration Architect.

For the staff connecting GovStack to identity, payment, treasury, statutory authorities, legacy mainframes, and inter-agency exchange (X-Road style).

TRACK CODET-05
LEVELS4 (L1–L4)
RE-CERT24 months
REGISTRYPublicly verifiable
§ 01 / WHO IT IS FOR

The role behind the track.

Every government platform lives inside an ecosystem. The integration architect is responsible for the seams between the new platform and everything around it — identity providers, payment switches, treasury systems, statutory registers, legacy mainframes, peer agencies, international exchanges. The track is technical in a way the other tracks are not, but the technical depth is always in service of architectural clarity. A successful integration architect leaves a documented topology behind, not a tangle of connectors.

§ 02 / THE FOUR LEVELS

Curriculum, level by level.

L1
Foundations · 5 days
Integration patterns. The platform's outbound and inbound contracts. Identity protocols (SAML, OIDC). Payment integration patterns. Webhook and event flows. Lab: connect a sample mock identity provider and a sample mock payment switch.
L2
Practitioner · 10 days + 30 days supervised
Production integration design. Throttling, retries, idempotency. Audit chain across integrations. Failure modes. Legacy adapter patterns. Case study: design and implement one production integration on the customer's environment.
L3
Expert · Self-directed, 4–6 months
Whole-of-government topology. Inter-agency exchange. National identity scheme integration. Two complex integration projects, paper, oral.
L4
Architect · Peer-nominated, capped intake
Authority to sign off integration design at agency or national level. Owns the integration register. Architecture board.
§ 03 / EXAMINATION & CERTIFICATION

How the level is actually awarded.

L1 examination
Multiple-choice plus integration-build lab using mock providers.
L2 examination
One real production integration designed, implemented, observed under load, and documented to platform standards.
L3 examination
Two integrations plus a paper on an integration pattern, anti-pattern, or topology problem. Oral includes architecture-review interrogation.
L4 examination
Architecture board. Strong preference for candidates who have led at least one cross-agency integration.
Re-certification
Every 24 months. Focus on new platform integration capabilities and on changes to upstream provider protocols.
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