Senior Distributed Systems Architect: Enterprise Integration

Blue Yonder; Rogers (AR); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance and Dental

401K with Matching

Flexible Time Off

Corporate Fitness Program

Pet Insurance and more

Job summary

Blue Yonder is seeking a distributed systems integration architect to lead the design of an enterprise-scale platform, defining patterns for distributed computing, event-driven systems, and enterprise integration across a complex ecosystem.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems with strong experience in messaging frameworks, integration patterns, and cloud-native architectures, translating business requirements into robust, scalable designs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems.
• Experience designing large-scale, distributed, and event-driven systems.
• Strong Java microservices architecture and API gateway knowledge.
• Experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) experience.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Integration Patterns and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Architecture leadership: define and evolve the reference architecture for distributed, event-driven, and integration-centric systems.
• Design distributed systems for high throughput, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Architect solutions based on Enterprise Integration Patterns and messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ.
• Define API design standards and governance; service-to-service communication models.
• Design cloud-native platforms using Docker, Kubernetes; multi-region deployments and IaC with Ansible/Terraform.
• Design distributed data strategies including Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Define observability strategies with Prometheus/OpenTelemetry/Jaeger.
• Define secure patterns (mTLS, zero-trust) and compliance (FedRAMP, DoD, SOC2).
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with internal/external customers.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Java Microservices

API Gateways

Cloud-Native

Event-Driven Architecture

Docker Kubernetes

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Blue Yonder is seeking a distributed systems integration architect to lead the design of an enterprise-scale platform, defining patterns for distributed computing, event-driven systems, and enterprise integration across a complex ecosystem.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems with strong experience in messaging frameworks, integration patterns, and cloud-native architectures, translating business requirements into robust, scalable designs.