Integration Architect - ( US citizen) -Defense

Blue Yonder • Dallas, TX

7d • $140,000 - $175,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Blue Yonder Defense Solutions (BYDS) is seeking a Distributed Systems / Integration Architect to lead the design and evolution of our next-generation, enterprise-scale platform. This role will define architectural patterns for distributed computing, event-driven systems, and enterprise integration, ensuring scalability, resilience, and interoperability across a complex ecosystem of internal and external systems. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems with strong experience in messaging frameworks, integration patterns, and cloud-native architectures, and can translate business requirements into robust, scalable system designs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant focus on distributed systems architecture.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, distributed, and event-driven systems.
• Strong experience with messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Deep understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and API design.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of data architecture in distributed environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with integration frameworks such as Apache Camel or Spring Integration
• Familiarity with concepts from: Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, DoD, defense systems).
• Experience designing multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the reference architecture for distributed, event-driven, and integration-centric systems.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and design patterns across engineering teams.
• Lead system design for high-scale, mission-critical applications.
• Design systems that can handle high throughput and large-scale data processing, fault tolerance and resiliency, scalability and performance optimization, and eventual consistency and distributed transactions.
• Architect solutions based on Enterprise Integration Patterns such as publish/subscribe, message routing and transformation, and event driven workflows.
• Have a deep understanding of messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, etc.
• Define strategies for message durability and replay, schema evolution and event versioning, dead-letter handling and recovery, etc.
• Define standards for API design and governance (REST, gRPC, asyn APIs).
• Architect service-to-service communication models (synchronous vs. asynchronous).
• Guide implementation of API gateways and service meshes.
• Design systems leveraging Docker, Kubernetes.
• Define architecture for multi-region deployments, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Define architecture for Infrastructure-as-Code using tools like Ansible (preferred) and Terraform.
• Design distributed data strategies including Event Sourcing and CQRS patterns.
• Design data synchronization across services.
• Design distributed data stores and replication.
• Define system-wide observability strategy using tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger.
• Establish patterns for distributed tracing and correlation IDs.
• Define secure communication patterns (mTLS, zero-trust architectures).
• Ensure secure integration across distributed services.
• Support compliance requirements (e.g., FedRAMP, DoD standards, SOC2).
• Partner with engineering, DevOps, and security team both internally and with external customers (very important).
• Mentor senior engineers and provide architectural guidance.
• Participate in design reviews and technical decision-making.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401K with Matching
• Flexible Time Off
• Corporate Fitness Program
• A variety of voluntary benefits such as; Legal Plans, Accident and Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and much more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed