Principal Platform Engineer, AI Integrations & Architecture

Baker Tilly (US); San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer — Integrations to lead the design, development, and operation of the firm’s AI agent integration framework within the APG platform.

This role is responsible for establishing scalable, secure, and standardized integration capabilities that connect third-party AI agents to the firm’s technology ecosystem while maintaining ownership and control of enterprise data, decision history, and learning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of platform engineering or software integration experience.
• Experience in event-driven architectures, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Proficient in Python and TypeScript with production-quality code.
• Ability to define integration standards and manage vendor tech requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and Build Integration Frameworks: Develop scalable integration capabilities including event-driven architectures, publish/subscribe interfaces, webhooks, APIs, and MCP endpoints.
• Establish and Enforce Vendor Integration Standards: Define vendor-facing specs and acceptance criteria for interoperability, security, portability, and performance.
• Support Vendor Contract Requirements: Translate technical standards into measurable contractual commitments, including data ownership and portability.
• Develop Data Ingestion and Telemetry Pipelines: Build pipelines capturing decision traces, lineage, and telemetry into the data platform.
• Ensure Secure Integration and Access Controls: Implement identity management, entitlements, and secure boundaries.
• Advance Platform Engineering Capabilities: Collaborate to develop shared services, gateways, and runtime capabilities.
• Drive Production Readiness and Reliability: Establish observability, monitoring, testing, and rollback capabilities.
• Lead Technical Vendor Integration: Coordinate with external teams on integration development and testing.
• Collaborate Across Global Engineering Teams: Align standards with teams in multiple locations.
• Support Strategic Initiatives: Contribute to AI platform strategy and business priorities.

Skills

Event-driven architectures

API design

Python

TypeScript

Vendor integration standards

Observability

Data ingestion pipelines

Identity management

Security controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

APIs

MCP

Job description

Baker Tilly is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer — Integrations to lead the design, development, and operation of the firm’s AI agent integration framework within the APG platform.

This role is responsible for establishing scalable, secure, and standardized integration capabilities that connect third-party AI agents to the firm’s technology ecosystem while maintaining ownership and control of enterprise data, decision history, and learning.