Cloud Integration Architect: API & Event-Driven

Sotalent; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sotalent in Irving, Texas seeks an IT Architect II to lead cloud-based integration design across products and partner ecosystems. You will shape API-led and event-driven frameworks to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

You will mentor engineers, set standards for APIs, security, observability, and continuous deployment, and collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to align technology direction and enable rapid, reliable changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/IS or related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering with architectural design exposure.
• Strong expertise in integration architecture, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience building scalable, secure, and highly available systems.
• Ability to influence decisions and collaborate across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise integration architecture across systems, services, and platforms.
• Collaborate with product, business, and engineering teams to translate requirements into robust architectural solutions.
• Establish standards, design patterns, and best practices for APIs, integration, security, and operational readiness.
• Lead the design of API-first and event-driven integration models, including asynchronous workflows and messaging patterns.
• Develop scalable and resilient architecture using modern patterns such as retries, fault tolerance, caching, and circuit breakers.
• Guide the implementation of messaging systems (e.g., Kafka or equivalent) and ensure proper event design and lifecycle management.
• Ensure secure integration practices through authentication, authorization, and data protection approaches.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring engineers and promoting engineering excellence.
• Drive collaboration across teams to align on architectural decisions and technology direction.
• Support production environments by ensuring observability, monitoring, and continuous improvement of systems.

Skills

Architectural design knowledge

Cross-team collaboration

Leadership and mentoring

Effective communication

Cloud-based integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Docker

API management

Job description

Sotalent in Irving, Texas seeks an IT Architect II to lead cloud-based integration design across products and partner ecosystems. You will shape API-led and event-driven frameworks to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

You will mentor engineers, set standards for APIs, security, observability, and continuous deployment, and collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to align technology direction and enable rapid, reliable changes.