Enterprise Software Architect

America First Credit Union; Utah; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

America First Credit Union is seeking an Enterprise Software Architect to design and lead enterprise integration and API management initiatives. The role focuses on API design, governance, and secure, scalable integrations across on-premise and cloud environments.

You will mentor engineers, set standards for API design and documentation, and ensure high availability and disaster recovery for integration platforms.

Qualifications

• Enterprise integration experience with architecting, designing, and implementing API ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of API governance, lifecycle, security, and performance.
• Experience with hybrid/cloud integration platforms and relevant tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead enterprise integration architecture standards and frameworks.
• Oversee API lifecycle: analysis, design, development, deployment, versioning, governance, monitoring.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams and ensure security and performance best practices.

Skills

API Design

Integration Architecture

OAuth 2.0

REST API

IBM API Connect

IBM ACE

DataPower

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

Java

XSLT

Tools

IBM API Connect

IBM App Connect Enterprise

IBM DataPower

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Enterprise Software Architect

America First Credit Union in Riverdale, UT seeks Enterprise Software Architect. Design, develop, and lead enterprise integration and API management solutions using IBM API Connect, IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), and IBM DataPower. Define enterprise level integration architecture standards, design scalable integration frameworks, and provide technical leadership to development teams. Manage the full API lifecycle including requirements analysis, API design, development, deployment, versioning, governance, monitoring, and retirement. Develop RESTful APIs using Open API specifications and enforce best practices for API design and documentation. Configure API gateway policies including authentication, authorization, traffic management, throttling, logging, and analytics. Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS, mutual TLS, and certificate based authentication. Design and develop integration message flows using IBM ACE, including routing, transformation, mediation, and exception handling. Perform data transformations using ESQL, Java, XPath, and XSLT. Configure and manage IBM DataPower services including multiprotocol gateways, XML firewalls, and backend integrations. Implement protocol mediation across REST, SOAP, MQ, and file based systems. Support hybrid and cloud integration platforms including on premise, OpenShift, and Kubernetes based deployments. Collaborate with application, security, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end integration solutions. Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle. Review integration designs and code for compliance with architecture, security, and performance standards. Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions for integration platforms. Perform performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for integration components. Prepare technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and integration design specifications. Support CI/CD automation for integration deployments and mentor junior integration engineers. Telecommuting is permitted within commutable distance to the office.