Lead Distributed Systems & Integration Architect

Blue Yonder; Farmers Branch (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vis…

401K with Matching

Flexible Time Off

Corporate Fitness Program

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Blue Yonder Defense Solutions (BYDS) seeks a Distributed Systems / Integration Architect to lead the design of an enterprise-scale platform. You will define patterns for distributed computing, event-driven workflows, and integration across internal and external systems.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience with messaging frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and translating business needs into robust system designs, while guiding senior engineers and collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with distributed systems focus.
• Design large-scale, distributed, event-driven systems.
• Strong Java microservices knowledge and API gateway design.
• Experience with messaging platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ).
• Deep understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns and data flows.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge of containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Security, compliance, and cross-team collaboration experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve reference architecture for distributed, event-driven, integration-centric systems.
• Lead architecture principles, standards, and design patterns across teams.
• Design high-throughput, fault-tolerant, scalable systems with eventual consistency.
• Architect solutions using EIP patterns; manage messaging, durability, and replay.
• Set API standards (REST, gRPC, AsyncAPI) and service-to-service models.
• Design cloud-native platforms with multi-region HA and IaC (Ansible, Terraform).
• Define data strategies (Event Sourcing, CQRS) and data replication.
• Establish observability with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger; enforce tracing.
• Ensure secure integration (mTLS, zero-trust) and FedRAMP/DoD/SOC2 alignment.
• Mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and engage with customers.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Java microservices

API gateways

Event-driven architecture

Cloud-native platforms

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Enterprise Integration Patterns

Messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ,)

High-scale system design

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

REST

gRPC

AsyncAPI

Job description

Blue Yonder Defense Solutions (BYDS) seeks a Distributed Systems / Integration Architect to lead the design of an enterprise-scale platform. You will define patterns for distributed computing, event-driven workflows, and integration across internal and external systems.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience with messaging frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and translating business needs into robust system designs, while guiding senior engineers and collaborating across teams.