Solutions Architect – Enterprise Integration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead the discovery phase, scoping, solution design, and estimation for integration projects.

• Interact directly with customers throughout both pre-sales and delivery stages.

• Identify business challenges and convert them into platform-native solutions.

• Organize customer workshops, architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and present to executives.

• Manage Solutions Design Documents, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), estimates, and definition-of-done criteria.

• Provide architectural direction throughout the integration lifecycle from initial intake to go-live and handover.

• Design utilizing fixed-price-engineering patterns, reusable connectors, and favor configuration over custom coding.

• Uphold ORCA contract fidelity and adhere to platform conventions.

• Share insights and establish standards through the Architecture Review Council.

• Confirm scope, requirements, and estimates prior to delivery commitments.

• Mentor and coach both PortX and customer development teams.

• Transform engagement work into reusable connectors, templates, mappings, patterns, and playbooks.

• Leverage AI tools for code generation, specification-driven scaffolding, conformance scoring, and documentation creation.

• Propel continuous improvement across integration patterns, delivery methodologies, estimation models, tooling, and documentation.

• Lead practical spikes, reference implementations, and rescue efforts as necessary.

• Ensure that engagements are delivered using templated/FPE patterns with no unreviewed bespoke code.

• Assist delivery teams in becoming self-sufficient and enhancing estimation accuracy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in enterprise integration consulting and implementation involving APIs, event-driven architecture, and integration platforms/iPaaS.

• Proven experience in leading engagements.

• Strong customer-facing abilities in discovery, workshop facilitation, estimation, executive communication, and scope management with a commercial mindset.

• Proficient in reading and reviewing code to ensure quality, review pull requests, and create prototypes.

• Practical experience with AI-assisted engineering, encompassing code generation, agentic tools, and spec-to-code workflows.

• Familiarity with containerization, Kubernetes/GitOps-style deployment, and AWS.

• Experience in OpenAPI-first design, consuming and specifying web services, Git, and standard build tools.

• Strong problem-solving capabilities.

• Exceptional spoken and written communication skills in English.

• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management abilities.

• Adaptability and responsiveness to shifting priorities and tight deadlines.

• Confident presence in customer interactions with the ability to foster trust and engagement.

• US citizenship is required.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• Experience in banking, credit union, or payments domain is highly preferred.

• Preferred experience in productizing service delivery.

• Preferred experience in architecture governance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation: attractive equity opportunities at a venture-backed startup.

• Comprehensive insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision).

• 401(k) plan.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• A collaborative and highly motivated team culture.

• A high-impact role with direct and immediate influence on revenue and business scaling.