Platform Engineering Lead — AI Integrations

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP in California seeks a Principal Platform Engineer — Integrations to lead the design, development, and operation of the firm's AI agent integration framework within the APG platform.

You will establish scalable, secure, and standardized integration capabilities, connect third‑party AI agents to the ecosystem, and maintain ownership of data, decision history, and learning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in platform engineering or related software engineering disciplines.
• Experience designing, building, and operating event-driven integration architectures (publish/subscribe messaging, webhooks, API platforms).
• Strong hands-on programming with Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience defining vendor integration standards and acceptance criteria for external teams.
• Knowledge of API design, versioning, contract testing, and MCP.
• Experience identity management, authentication, authorization, entitlements, and secure boundaries.
• Telemetry and data ingestion pipelines; Databricks or lakehouse tech.
• Excellent collaboration and communication across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and Build Integration Frameworks: scalable integration capabilities, including event-driven architectures, publish/subscribe interfaces, webhooks, APIs, and MCP endpoints.
• Establish and Enforce Vendor Integration Standards: vendor-facing specs, requirements, and acceptance criteria for interoperability, security, portability.
• Support Vendor Contract Requirements: translate standards into measurable contractual commitments for data ownership and portability.
• Develop Data Ingestion and Telemetry Pipelines: capture decision traces, lineage, activity data, and telemetry for the data platform.
• Ensure Secure Integration and Access Controls: implement identity management and permissible-use controls.
• Advance Platform Engineering Capabilities: develop shared platform services, gateways, runtime capabilities, reusable infrastructure.
• Drive Production Readiness and Reliability: observability, monitoring, testing, and rollback capabilities for production.
• Lead Technical Vendor Integration: coordinate with external teams for validation, testing, and integration.
• Collaborate Across Global Engineering Teams: align standards with teams in multiple locations.
• Support Strategic Initiatives: contribute to AI platform strategy and priorities.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

API design

Security

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Job description

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP in California seeks a Principal Platform Engineer — Integrations to lead the design, development, and operation of the firm's AI agent integration framework within the APG platform.

You will establish scalable, secure, and standardized integration capabilities, connect third‑party AI agents to the ecosystem, and maintain ownership of data, decision history, and learning.