About You
You are an Application Architect with extensive experience designing enterprise applications, integration ecosystems, and cloud-native solutions. You enjoy solving complex technical challenges, establishing architectural standards, and driving modernization initiatives across distributed environments.
You are passionate about engineering excellence, scalable architectures, and AI-enabled innovation. You thrive collaborating with engineering teams, stakeholders, and business leaders to design secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions that align with organizational goals.
You enjoy mentoring technical teams, influencing architectural decisions, and promoting best practices that improve scalability, developer experience, and long-term sustainability.
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in Architecture, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Technical Leadership roles.
- Proven experience designing enterprise-scale integration platforms and distributed systems.
- API Architecture and Enterprise Integrations.
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
- Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Microservices and Distributed Systems.
- Cloud-Native Architecture.
- Experience with enterprise messaging technologies such as Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, RabbitMQ, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, OpenAPI Specifications, OAuth2, OIDC, API Security, and Identity Management.
- Experience implementing observability practices, including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and telemetry.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL, Application Insights, and Azure AI Services.
- Experience with API governance, enterprise integration strategies, and service reusability initiatives.
- Knowledge of CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga Patterns, and Distributed Transaction Management.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and enterprise observability platforms.
- Familiarity with AI technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, Vector Databases, and Semantic Search.
- Strong communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.
- Azure, Cloud, or Architecture certifications are highly desirable.
You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain application architecture standards, principles, and best practices.