AI Tools Integration Architect — Lead, Enterprise Scale

BCforward; Chandler (AZ); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Growth opportunities with global teams

Inclusive culture

Exposure to cutting-edge technologies

Job summary

BCforward seeks an AI Tools Integration Architect / Lead Integration Engineer to lead enterprise-scale integration design for AI and automation across tools, platforms, and services. You will translate business needs into reusable patterns and playbooks, guiding cross-domain teams in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes secure authentication, governance, and scalable connectors, with mentoring of infrastructure engineers and collaboration across architecture, security, and delivery

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and leading complex infrastructure tool and service integrations in large enterprises.
• Advanced knowledge of API-based integration patterns, service interfaces, gateways, and platform connectivity approaches.
• Experience defining reusable blueprints, reference patterns, templates, and playbooks for integration delivery.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, secret handling, and secure access for system-to-system and model-to-tool interactions.
• Experience enabling governed interactions among applications, infrastructure tools, automation platforms, and enterprise services.
• Knowledge of infrastructure service design, interface dependencies, resiliency expectations, and operational support models for production-grade integrations.
• Ability to evaluate complex designs for scalability, supportability, and alignment to enterprise standards and guide teams accordingly.
• Experience collaborating across architecture, engineering, platform, security, and delivery stakeholders.
• Familiarity with enterprise and network platforms and the constraints of exposing tool capabilities safely for downstream use.
• Experience contributing to strategy, architecture direction, or roadmaps for integration services and reusable connectivity capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of logging, monitoring, observability, resiliency, and performance expectations for integrated services in production.
• Experience evaluating third-party or enterprise products and interfaces for adoption, integration, and operational support.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain designs, constraints, dependencies, and operational considerations.
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical contributors on integration methods and implementation practices.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and cross-functional dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and technology needs into complex integration designs, interface definitions, reusable patterns, blueprints, and playbooks aligned to enterprise standards and policies.
• Lead design of advanced integration capabilities that connect AI and automation solutions with enterprise and network tools, platforms, and services.
• Develop and refine reusable connectors, templates, interface patterns, and automation components to improve delivery consistency and scalability.
• Consult across tools, integration patterns, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business and transformation outcomes.
• Evaluate reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for fitness, security, supportability, and alignment to approved architectural patterns.
• Contribute to technology strategy and architectural direction for integration services and provide feedback to architecture and platform teams.
• Establish secure authentication and authorization patterns for governed interactions between models, workflows, and enterprise tools.
• Mentor Infrastructure Engineers and contributors to ensure compliance with enterprise design, engineering, and operational standards.
• Participate in steering committees, design reviews, and technical forums for infrastructure domains, platform onboarding, and integration enablement.
• Review and guide evaluations of third-party and enterprise products for integration, onboarding, or adoption within the transformation ecosystem.
• Develop or guide software and automation that improves manual or inefficient integration processes.

Skills

Enterprise integration

API patterns

Gateways

Platform connectivity

Security - auth/secret handling

Governed interactions

Mentoring engineers

Cross-domain collaboration

Job description

BCforward seeks an AI Tools Integration Architect / Lead Integration Engineer to lead enterprise-scale integration design for AI and automation across tools, platforms, and services. You will translate business needs into reusable patterns and playbooks, guiding cross-domain teams in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes secure authentication, governance, and scalable connectors, with mentoring of infrastructure engineers and collaboration across architecture, security, and delivery