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About the Role

This is a delivery-focused architecture role for someone who loves turning complex business problems into working technical solutions. As an Application Architect, you’ll be the technical lead on product and platform initiatives, designing the systems needed to deliver them. You’ll work closely with delivery teams, product owners, and engineering leads, making architecture decisions that keep initiatives on track and technically sound. You’ll be embedded in delivery, shaping how AI-enabled features, integrations, and services are designed and built responsibly, with security and compliance embedded from the start.

Responsibilities

Translate product and business requirements into clear, well-reasoned technical designs, including component diagrams, integration specs, data models, and sequence flows.
Design AI-enabled features and workflows within initiatives, including LLM integrations, agentic flows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool-use patterns.
Define how solutions integrate with surrounding services, APIs, event-driven systems, and external platforms, ensuring clear contracts, resilience patterns, and well-understood boundaries.
Ensure security controls, PCI/PII requirements, and responsible AI practices are embedded in solution design in partnership with AppSec and risk functions.
Guide and review engineering work throughout the build, attending design sessions, reviewing pull requests, and helping teams navigate technical decisions.
Produce Gate 0 (ROM) and Gate 1 (detailed) architecture estimates for initiatives, with documented assumptions, risk flags, and dependency inventories.
Deliver well-documented solution architectures for each initiative.
Produce integration designs with explicit API contracts, event schemas, and data ownership boundaries.
Produce architecture estimates (Gate 0 and Gate 1) with assumptions logs and risk registers.
Produce AI feature designs that are production-ready, governed, and aligned with enterprise AI patterns.
Reduce late-stage surprises caused by integration gaps, compliance oversights, or unresolved NFRs.
Attend sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement sessions, and design reviews as a first-class team member.
Produce Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and lead their review.
Negotiate integration contracts, resolve boundary disputes, and align across teams.
Write documentation for architecture artefacts, including diagrams, ADRs, integration specs, and assumptions logs.
Get across the enterprise reference architecture, approved patterns, and existing system landscape within the first month.
Deliver the first application architecture and produce a Gate 1 estimate ready for build commitment within the second month.
Embed into delivery rhythm and begin contributing architectural observations back to the Principal Architect within the third month.

Requirements

5–10 years in software engineering, with meaningful experience in solution or technical architecture roles on multi-team delivery programs.
Solid cloud architecture experience on AWS, including services, networking, data, and security patterns in a delivery context.
Hands-on experience designing and integrating AI-powered features, including LLMs, RAG patterns, and agentic workflows.
Strong integration design skills, including APIs, event-driven systems, service boundaries, and resilience patterns.
Good working knowledge of backend services (Java ecosystem preferred), data systems, and front-end integration points.
Experience in regulated environments (PCI/PII) and comfort embedding compliance requirements into design.
Ability to produce clear architecture artefacts: component diagrams, sequence diagrams, ADRs, and integration specs.
Ability to make things clear and build trust quickly with delivery teams.
Ability to write well, with readable design docs, explicit assumptions, and explained trade-offs.
Excitement about AI's potential in product but grounded about what that means in practice.
Ability to navigate a modern, cloud-native stack confidently and make good architectural decisions within AWS, Java, Angular, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon Kiro, Kafka, SQS, GitHub etc.
Ability to stay close to the evolution of AI tooling, evaluating new capabilities critically and integrating them where they genuinely improve outcomes.
Regular 1:1 time with the Principal Architect for coaching on architectural breadth, strategic thinking, and stakeholder influence.
Participation in a fortnightly architecture community to discuss patterns, review emerging technology, and share lessons from delivery.
Support for ongoing professional development through cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional), architecture frameworks (TOGAF), and attendance at relevant industry events and conferences.
Close collaboration with product owners, delivery leads, engineering teams, and InfoSec on a day-to-day basis.
Engagement with the Principal Architect on standards alignment, pattern exceptions, and cross-initiative design issues.
Ability to act as the technical voice on solution decisions, with the credibility to challenge scope, surface risk, and unblock delivery.

Skills

Solution Design
AI Implementation Design
LLM Integrations
Agentic Flows
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Tool-Use Patterns
Integration Design
API Design
Event-Driven Systems
Security by Design
Compliance by Design
Responsible AI Practices
Technical Governance
Architecture Estimation
Cloud-Native Stack Navigation
AWS
Java
Angular
Oracle
PostgreSQL
Amazon Kiro
Kafka
SQS
GitHub
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
Stakeholder Influence
Agile Methodologies

Location

Office environment

Work Type

Full-time
Onsite

Experience Level

5-10 years experience

Salary/Compensations

$120,000 - $130,000 USD

About the Company

Accommodations Plus International is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity

Accommodations Plus International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.