Senior Enterprise Integration Architect

AppFolio; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 167,200 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio in Santa Barbara seeks a Senior Staff IT Enterprise Architect to lead integration and architecture capabilities across Business Systems, guiding secure, scalable solutions that support growth and long‑term objectives.

You will define target architectures, governance, and platform standards for MuleSoft, AWS, and emerging technologies, while mentoring teams and driving AI-enabled initiatives to production.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or related leadership roles.
• 8+ years delivering enterprise integration solutions.
• Experience with API-led connectivity and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on with MuleSoft, AWS, Workato, Boomi.
• Ability to guide architecture standards and provide technical guidance.
• Experience with AI-enabled capabilities and LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Assess current-state integrations and architectural patterns across the enterprise application landscape.
• Define target-state architectures and pragmatic transition roadmaps for enterprise applications and integrations.
• Establish and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, and design patterns that promote scalability and consistency.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient integration solutions that support evolving business needs.
• Define integration guidance across APIs, events, batch processing, orchestration, and automation capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify architectures, reduce technical debt, and improve maintainability.
• Partner with engineering to improve observability, reliability, and supportability of integrations.
• Mentor team members and elevate architectural thinking across the organization.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Integration Architecture

AI/ML architecture

Stakeholder Management

Leadership without authority

Communications

Tools

MuleSoft

AWS

Workato

Boomi

Job description

AppFolio in Santa Barbara seeks a Senior Staff IT Enterprise Architect to lead integration and architecture capabilities across Business Systems, guiding secure, scalable solutions that support growth and long‑term objectives.

You will define target architectures, governance, and platform standards for MuleSoft, AWS, and emerging technologies, while mentoring teams and driving AI-enabled initiatives to production.