Senior Integrations & AI Architect (Enterprise)

Appfolio; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking an Integrations & AI Architect to tackle complex problems across enterprise systems, APIs, and automation. This hands-on leadership role blends architecture with builder mindset, moving from discovery to production. You will shape reusable patterns and guide AI-enabled workflows at scale.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with data and security teams, and drive integration strategies across SaaS platforms, cloud services, and data platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across software engineering, integration engineering, platform engineering, enterprise applications, or related technical disciplines.
• Strong track record delivering complex production systems spanning multiple applications, platforms, or domains.
• Hands-on technical depth across APIs, integrations, events, data flows, distributed systems, and enterprise SaaS applications.
• Experience with integration and automation technologies such as MuleSoft, Workato, AWS, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cross-system solutions spanning enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, automation, cloud services, data, and AI.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into pragmatic system designs, defining boundaries, sources of truth, APIs, events, schemas, and data flows.
• Evaluate tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, complexity, and maintainability; balance long-term architecture with near-term delivery.
• Build prototypes and POCs to validate approaches, reduce risk, and guide larger technical investments.
• Work directly with APIs, code, schemas, events, logs, and system behavior to investigate problems, validate designs, and guide implementation.
• Establish engineering patterns across APIs, event-driven architecture, orchestration, automation, batch processing, and data movement.
• Set technical direction across AppFolio’s integration ecosystem, including MuleSoft, Workato, AWS, and emerging technologies.
• Improve reliability and production readiness through patterns for observability, error handling, retries, reconciliation, testing, CI/CD, security, and operational support.
• Turn delivered solutions into reusable components, reference implementations, and shared capabilities that reduce one-off integrations and technical debt.
• Partner with Data and Engineering on system-of-record decisions and patterns that connect enterprise applications with data, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Lead architecture, design, code, and implementation reviews for high-impact solutions.
• Strengthen engineering practices around reliability, maintainability, security, testing, observability, and production operations.
• Identify architectural gaps, scaling constraints, and technical debt and lead pragmatic improvements.
• Influence technical direction across Enterprise Applications, Engineering, Data, Security, and Product through hands-on technical leadership.

Skills

APIs & Integrations

Cloud Architecture

Leadership / Mentoring

Data Flows

Observability & Reliability

Cross-System Problem Solving

Tools

MuleSoft

Workato

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

AppFolio is seeking an Integrations & AI Architect to tackle complex problems across enterprise systems, APIs, and automation. This hands-on leadership role blends architecture with builder mindset, moving from discovery to production. You will shape reusable patterns and guide AI-enabled workflows at scale.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with data and security teams, and drive integration strategies across SaaS platforms, cloud services, and data platforms.