Sr. IT Enterprise Architect

As an Integrations & AI Architect, you will solve some of App Folio’s most complex technical problems across the systems that run the business.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role for someone who thinks like an architect but operates like a builder. You will take ambiguous, cross-system problems from discovery through technical design, implementation, and production. You will investigate system behavior, prototype approaches, design integrations and APIs, build critical components, troubleshoot difficult failures, and work alongside engineers to carry solutions into production.

Your scope will span enterprise applications, integrations, APIs, automation, operational data flows, cloud services, and emerging AI capabilities. You will help teams make sound technical tradeoffs across SaaS platforms, Workato, Mule Soft, AWS, data platforms, and custom engineering.

You will also turn what we learn through delivery into reusable engineering patterns, shared capabilities, and pragmatic technical standards that improve how Enterprise Applications builds at scale.

This role works across Enterprise Applications, Engineering, Data, Security, Product, and Business teams.

Design and Build Cross-System Solutions

• Lead technical design and implementation for complex solutions spanning enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, automation, cloud services, data, and AI.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into pragmatic system designs, defining boundaries, sources of truth, APIs, events, schemas, and operational data flows.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, complexity, and maintainability, balancing long‑term architecture with near‑term delivery.
• Build prototypes and POCs to validate approaches, reduce risk, and guide larger technical investments.
• Work directly with APIs, code, schemas, events, logs, and system behavior to investigate problems, validate designs, and guide implementation.

Build Reliable, Reusable Platforms and Integrations

• Establish engineering patterns across APIs, event‑driven architecture, orchestration, automation, batch processing, and data movement.
• Set technical direction across App Folio’s integration ecosystem, including Mule Soft, Workato, AWS, and emerging technologies, choosing approaches based on the problem rather than the tool.
• Improve reliability and production readiness through strong patterns for observability, error handling, retries, reconciliation, testing, CI/CD, security, and operational support.
• Turn delivered solutions into reusable components, reference implementations, and shared capabilities that reduce one‑off integrations and technical debt.
• Partner with Data and Engineering on system‑of‑record decisions and patterns that connect enterprise applications with data, automation, and AI‑enabled workflows.

Raise the Engineering Bar

• Serve as a senior technical leader and mentor, helping engineers navigate complex system design and implementation decisions.
• Lead architecture, design, code, and implementation reviews for high‑impact solutions.
• Strengthen engineering practices around reliability, maintainability, security, testing, observability, and production operations.
• Identify architectural gaps, scaling constraints, and technical debt and lead pragmatic improvements.
• Influence technical direction across Enterprise Applications, Engineering, Data, Security, and Product through hands‑on technical leadership.

• 10+ years of experience across software engineering, integration engineering, platform engineering, enterprise applications, or related technical disciplines.
• Strong track record designing and delivering complex production systems spanning multiple applications, platforms, or domains.
• Strong…