Principal Architect: AI-Driven Apps & Integrations

RB Distribution, Inc.; Colmar (PA); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorman is seeking a Principal Architect, Applications & Integration for hybrid work at our suburban Philadelphia headquarters (Colmar, PA). You will lead architectural direction for custom applications, integration, automation, and AI-enabled solutions, guiding patterns, guardrails, and lifecycle practices.

This senior IC role emphasizes technical influence, collaboration with Security, Legal, and Compliance, and enterprise pattern development.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in application architecture, solution architecture, integration architecture, software engineering, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience architecting modern cloud applications and integration solutions using APIs, messaging, event-driven, and distributed patterns.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, application lifecycle management, and production-readiness practices.
• Demonstrated success taking a new technology or architecture pattern from evaluation through production and converting it into a repeatable enterprise capability.
• Ability to lead teams and partners through influence and translate complex technical topics into clear options, risks, recommendations, and investment needs.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for custom web, mobile, cloud-native, API-driven, event-driven, workflow, and internally engineered business solutions.
• Define application frameworks, reference architectures, reusable components, and engineering patterns.
• Guide modernization, technical debt, technology lifecycle, production readiness, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Establish patterns and standards for APIs, events, messaging, orchestration, middleware, managed file transfer, and partner integration.
• Define reusable patterns for LLM access, orchestration, prompt management, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, agents, inference, and intelligent automation.

Skills

Microservices

Containers

Serverless

API management

LLM platforms

RAG

Vector databases

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Job description

Dorman is seeking a Principal Architect, Applications & Integration for hybrid work at our suburban Philadelphia headquarters (Colmar, PA). You will lead architectural direction for custom applications, integration, automation, and AI-enabled solutions, guiding patterns, guardrails, and lifecycle practices.

This senior IC role emphasizes technical influence, collaboration with Security, Legal, and Compliance, and enterprise pattern development.