Distributed Systems Integration Architect

Position Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Leadership -- 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.
• Distributed Systems Design – 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.
• Enterprise Integration & Messaging – 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.
• API & Service Architecture – 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.
• Cloud-Native & Platform Architecture – design systems leveraging Docker, Kubernetes. Define architecture for multi-region deployments, high availability and disaster recovery, Infrastructure-as-Code using tools like Ansible (preferred) and Terraform
• Data Architecture & Flow – design distributed data strategies including Event Sourcing and CQRS patterns, data synchronization across services, distributed data stores and replication.
• Observability and Reliability Engineering – define system-wide observability strategy using tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger. Establish patterns for distributed tracing and correlation IDs.
• Security & Compliance Architecture – define secure communication patterns (mTLS, zero-trust architectures), ensure secure integration across distributed services, support compliance requirements (e.g., FedRAMP, DoD standards, SOC2).
• Cross-Team and Customer Collaboration – 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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 technical understanding of Java based microservices architecture and API gateways
• Strong experience design event riven architecture messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Deep understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns and Data Flows
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with designing and integration in Supply chain world
• 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.