Director, Enterprise Platform & Integration

The American Institute of Architects; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is seeking a Director, Platform and Integration to lead enterprise solution and platform architecture across Salesforce and AMS integrations. You will partner with technology, business stakeholders, implementation teams, vendors, and third-party providers to design scalable, secure integration solutions that align with AIA's architecture strategy.

The role focuses on guiding integration design, assessing requirements, and ensuring best practices across

Responsibilities

• Provide platform solution architecture and integration leadership across AIA's digital products with Salesforce and Association Management System platforms.
• Design and guide integration architecture across the AMS platform, Salesforce, AIA digital products, and enterprise and third-party applications.

Job description

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) AIA will provide you with the opportunity to advocate for the value of architecture and give architects and design professionals the resources they need to do their best work.

The collective voice of architects is essential and our work drives positive change through the power of design.

Each one of us at AIA is a leader committed to demonstrating our mission and values and designing a better future for our country and planet.

Even in times of change, AIA's values remain constant: We stand for equity and human rights We stand for architecture that strengthens our communities We stand for a sustainable future We stand for protecting communities from the impacts of climate change We stand for economic opportunity We stand for investing in the future We speak up, and policymakers listen

The American Institute of Architects, as part of the global community, is building a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion within the profession of architecture to create a better built environment for all. Achieving this vision has a direct impact on the relevance of the profession of architecture and the world's prosperity, health, and future.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Managing Director, Digital Products Development & Operations, the Director, Platform and Integration is responsible for providing enterprise solution architecture, platform architecture, and integration leadership across AIA's digital products with Salesforce and AMS platforms. The director will serve as an architectural interface between AIA Technology, business stakeholders, implementation teams, vendors, and third-party technology providers. The role is responsible for designing and guiding solutions that integrate AIA's Salesforce and Association Management System (AMS) platforms with digital products and other enterprise and third-party applications. The director will also provide architectural guidance for enhancements based on the new capabilities on the Salesforce and AMS platforms, ensuring solutions follow platform best practices and align with AIA's broader technology architecture and integration strategy.

Job Duties

• Provide platform solution architecture and integration leadership across AIA's digital products with Salesforce and Association Management System platforms.
• Design and guide integration architecture across the AMS platform, Salesforce, AIA digital products, and enterprise and third-party applications.
• Develop scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable integration solutions using appropriate APIs, events, middleware, and data exchange patterns.
• Assess business and technical requirements and translate them into solution architecture and implementation approaches.
• Align business requirements with product and engineering teams, vendors, and enterprise platforms.
• Evaluate the impact of proposed changes across Salesforce, AMS, digital products, integrations, data, and downstream systems.
• Identify architectural risks, technical dependencies, integration constraints, and opportunities for simplification and modernization.
• Establish and promote architecture and integration best practices across digital product development and operations.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure solutions are implemented according to approved architecture and design principles.
• Work with vendors and third-party technology providers to evaluate integration capabilities, technical constraints, and solution options.
• Support technology roadmaps and modernization initiatives involving enterprise platforms and integrations.
• Design and guide integrations between Salesforce, AMS, and digital products supporting member, customer, financial, and operational capabilities.
• Evaluate platform capabilities and determine when functionality should be implemented within Salesforce, the AMS, digital products, or through an integration layer.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define technical requirements, solution options, and implementation approaches.
• Work with Salesforce, AMS and third-party vendor partners to communicate AIA needs and ensure appropriate capabilities are implemented within the right platforms.
• Support platform upgrades, new releases, and major enhancements by assessing architectural and integration impacts.
• Maintain awareness of Salesforce and AMS platform capabilities, limitations, release changes, and evolving technology patterns.
• Serve as the primary architecture resource for integrating AIA digital products with Salesforce, AMS, and other enterprise platforms.
• Establish integration approaches that enable consistent and reliable exchange of member, customer, product, payment, and other enterprise data.
• Partner with digital product teams to ensure new products and capabilities are designed with appropriate enterprise integration patterns from the outset.
• Review solution design