Principal Integration Architect
Applaudo Studios6 hours ago
Remote, Mexico or Mexico City, MexicoStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and lead implementation of a unified enterprise integration layer supporting canonical business domains, source-system extensions, and cross-vertical connectivity.
- Define architecture standards, principles, and best practices for integration and API engineering.
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available API ecosystems and integration solutions.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide hands-on technical guidance across engineering teams.
- Define standards for API design, security, observability, documentation, and lifecycle management.
- Lead integration strategies across internal applications, ERP and SaaS platforms, enterprise systems, and external partners.
- Facilitate domain discovery and event-storming workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Design and implement event-driven and message-based architectures using enterprise messaging platforms.
- Drive AI-assisted engineering practices, TDD, Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, and automated quality practices.
- Lead modernization and technical debt reduction initiatives and partner with platform teams on deployment automation and developer experience.
- Mentor architects, technical leads, and engineering teams while advising on strategic technology investments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in architecture, principal engineering, staff engineering, or technical leadership roles with active hands-on coding.
- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale integration platforms, unified integration layers, and distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, API architecture, enterprise integrations, and API governance.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise messaging and event platforms such as Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, RabbitMQ, Solace, Apache Kafka, or AWS SQS.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, OpenAPI Specifications, OAuth2, OIDC, API security, identity management, and observability.
- Modern .NET and C# experience is highly desired; comparable depth in an equivalent stack such as Java is acceptable.
- Experience with CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga Patterns, distributed transaction management, OpenTelemetry, and enterprise observability platforms.
- Daily hands-on use of AI tools such as Copilot, RAG-based tools, or agentic coding assistants.
- Strong English fluency for direct collaboration with a US-based team and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, proactive risk identification, autonomy, and ability to communicate architecture decisions clearly.
Benefits
- The position is offered under a contractor model.
- The role involves direct collaboration with a US-based team and stakeholders.
- The organization describes an AI-native, collaborative, high-performance culture focused on ownership, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
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About Applaudo Studios
Applaudo Studios provides nearshore software engineering and AI consulting to enterprises, delivering product design, custom development, cloud, and data services from Latin America. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Salvador, the privately held firm builds and operates web, mobile, and enterprise systems and supports digital transformation initiatives. Clients engage Applaudo for AI assessments and implementation, scalable delivery teams, and ongoing DevOps and QA support.