Integration Architect

PulteGroup•Atlanta, GA

16h

About The Position

The Integration Architect defines the enterprise integration strategy and provides hands-on architecture leadership for its adoption. This role establishes reusable patterns and standards, guides platform rationalization and modernization, and partners with delivery teams to create secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable integrations across custom applications, SaaS platforms, COTS products, data platforms, legacy systems, and external partners.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience architecting integrations across custom applications, SaaS platforms, COTS products, data platforms, partner ecosystems, cloud services, and on-premises environments.
Strong knowledge of API-first design, event-driven architecture, publish/subscribe messaging, asynchronous processing, workflow orchestration, batch and file-based integration, data synchronization, and distributed systems.
Ability to select appropriate integration patterns based on functional needs, coupling, latency, throughput, consistency, security, recoverability, cost, and operational support requirements.
Experience establishing API, event, contract, schema, naming, versioning, security, lifecycle, and reusable-pattern standards.
Knowledge of idempotency, retries, exponential backoff, dead-letter handling, poison-message processing, replay, message durability, ordering, error recovery, and high-availability design.
Experience defining integration observability through structured logging, correlation identifiers, metrics, alerting, distributed tracing, and operational dashboards.
Understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, certificate-based authentication, mTLS, encryption, secrets management, and private connectivity.
Experience with Azure integration-focused offerings. Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory
Experience with general AI productivity tools like ChatGPT and AI Coding Assistance tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc.
Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED) required.
Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8-10 years of prior relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Developer Associate, DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Kubernetes, or TOGAF are preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the enterprise integration strategy, reference architectures, standards, reusable patterns, governance, and technology roadmap.
Establish decision frameworks for APIs, events, messaging, orchestration, batch processing, file transfer, data synchronization, and hybrid integration.
Lead modernization from point-to-point and tightly coupled integrations toward reusable, loosely coupled, cloud-aligned solutions.
Define standards for system ownership, service boundaries, data contracts, schemas, versioning, security, interoperability, and lifecycle management.
Guide architecture reviews, solution designs, proofs of concept, and technology evaluations for strategic initiatives.
Partner with product teams, developers, data teams, infrastructure, security, operations, and vendors to align solutions with enterprise standards.
Document key architecture decisions, risks, tradeoffs, roadmaps, and implementation guidance.
Mentor architects and engineers and communicate recommendations clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and technology leadership.
Promote reuse, automation, observability, security, platform rationalization, and continuous improvement across the integration ecosystem.
Perform other duties as assigned.