Integration Architect

Integration Architect For over 50 years, AmeriLife has been a leader in the development, marketing and distribution of annuity, life and health insurance solutions for those planning for and living in retirement. Associates get satisfaction from knowing they provide agents, marketers and carrier partners the support needed to succeed in a rapidly evolving industry. Job Summary We are seeking an Integration Architect with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade integration solutions across applications, data, and APIs. This role will define integration strategy, lead architecture decisions, and guide delivery teams in building secure, scalable, and reusable integrations. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in API management and modern integration platforms, with MuleSoft and Azure Integration Services experience considered a strong plus. Key Responsibilities Define and drive enterprise integration architecture across application, data, and API domains. Lead end-to-end integration solution design for complex, multi-system ecosystems. Establish integration standards, patterns, governance, and best practices. Own API-led architecture and lifecycle management, including API design, security, versioning. Architect and implement enterprise messaging solutions using Message Queues and event streaming platforms (including Kafka). Establish standards for reliable event delivery, schema/version management, idempotency, and observability across distributed systems. Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate business capabilities into integration roadmaps. Lead technical reviews, architecture boards, and platform modernization initiatives. Mentor integration developers; provide technical leadership across projects. Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, observability, reliability, and security. Drive integration platform adoption and rationalization across leading middleware and API management platforms. Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to enable CI/CD, automated testing, and operational excellence for integrations. Required Qualifications 15+ years of overall IT experience, with significant focus on enterprise integration architecture. Proven experience in application integration, data integration, event-driven integration, and hybrid/cloud integration models. Solid understanding of event-driven integration concerns such as ordering, retries, dead-letter handling, fault tolerance, and eventual consistency. Proven hands-on experience in API-Led connectivity architecture and implementation at enterprise scale. Strong experience in data integration, including structured and semi-structured data flows across enterprise applications. Proven hands-on experience with ETL/ELT frameworks, data mapping, transformation, and pipeline orchestration. Strong API management expertise, including API design standards, gateway policies, security patterns (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS), and developer portal strategy. Hands-on experience with leading integration and API platforms (for example MuleSoft, Apigee, Boomi or similar). Preferred Qualifications MuleSoft certifications (for example Integration Architect / Platform Architect) Azure Integration Services experience is a plus, including API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Azure Functions. Experience with event streaming ecosystems and enterprise event governance frameworks. Azure Data Factory (ADF) experience is a plus, including pipeline orchestration, linked services, mapping data flows, and monitoring. Core Competencies Enterprise Integration architecture and strategy. API-Led design and reusable integration assets. Event streaming and messaging architecture. Data pipeline and ETL/ELT architecture. Microservices and serverless integration patterns. Governance, security, and operational excellence. Technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. AmeriLife