Principal Integration Architect

About the role

Applaudo is seeking a Principal Integration Architect to design and own enterprise‑scale integration platforms. You will standardise communication across business domains, influence engineering culture, and work hands‑on with modern AI‑enhanced development tools.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain a unified integration layer that connects systems and verticals.
• Own architectural decisions end‑to‑end and proactively surface blockers.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to whiteboard domain models and with engineers to review pull requests.
• Drive API governance, observability, and security practices at scale.
• Leverage AI tools such as Copilot, RAG‑based assistants, and agentic workflows to accelerate development.

Required profile

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in architecture, principal or staff engineering roles with active hands‑on coding.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise‑scale integration platforms and distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills to work directly with a US‑based team and stakeholders.

Required skills

• Modern .NET patterns, async pipelines, C# (or equivalent Java expertise).
• Domain‑Driven Design (DDD), Event‑Driven Architecture (EDA), Microservices.
• API design, OpenAPI, OAuth2, OIDC, API security, identity management.
• Messaging platforms: Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, RabbitMQ, Solace, Apache Kafka, AWS SQS.
• Cloud‑native architecture, observability (monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry).
• Test‑Driven Development (TDD), CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga patterns, distributed transaction management.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants (Copilot, RAG tools, agentic workflows).