Principal Integration Architect
Applaudo Studios17 days ago
Remote, Mexico or Mexico City, MexicoStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and lead implementation of a unified enterprise integration layer supporting canonical domains, source-system extensions, and cross-vertical connectivity.
- Define architecture standards, principles, API governance, security practices, observability requirements, documentation, and lifecycle management.
- Design scalable, secure, highly available API ecosystems and integration solutions across internal applications, ERP, SaaS platforms, enterprise systems, and external partners.
- Lead architecture reviews, provide hands-on technical guidance, and mentor architects, technical leads, and engineering teams.
- Design and implement event-driven and message-based architectures using Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, and related technologies.
- Facilitate domain discovery and event storming workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Drive AI-assisted engineering adoption, modernization, technical-debt reduction, TDD, Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, and automated quality practices.
- Partner with platform teams on CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer experience.
- Advise on strategic technology investments and modernization initiatives while driving outcomes autonomously.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years in architecture, principal engineer, staff engineer, or technical leadership roles with active, current hands-on coding.
- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale integration platforms and distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, API governance, modern .NET patterns, async pipelines, cloud-native architecture, and microservices.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise messaging 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 practices.
- Experience with CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga Patterns, distributed transaction management, and OpenTelemetry.
- Daily hands-on use of AI tools such as Copilot, RAG-based tools, or agentic coding assistants.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
- Advanced English fluency for direct collaboration with US-based teams and stakeholders.
- Strong communication, ownership, accountability, and stakeholder-influence skills.
Benefits
- The position is offered under a contractor model.
- The role involves direct collaboration with a US-based team and stakeholders.
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