Manager, Integration Architect

Job Description:

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals, and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.

Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Bozeman, Chicago, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Juneau, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Tallahassee and Washington, D.C.

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Integration Architect to design, engineer, and optimize integration solutions across enterprise applications, platforms, and data systems. This role is critical for ensuring seamless data flow, interoperability, and system reliability within a complex technology ecosystem. In this role, you will serve as a strategic partner to Earthjustice's departmental operations, enterprise systems, and data teams to establish integration standards and deployments that support scalable growth and operational efficiency.

The Manager, Integration Architect is expected to work a full-time (37.5 hours/week) schedule, and may work hybrid (minimum 2 days a week) from the following locations: San Francisco, New York City, Washington D.C.

Responsibilities

Design & Engineering [40%]

• Develop, deploy, and operate endtoend integrations across enterprise systems and data platforms; ensure integrations are designed for scalability, reliability, and maintainability while evaluating new technologies to meet evolving enterprise needs; and build and maintain the enterprise-wide integration roadmap, architectural diagrams, data flows, and models.
• Establish and document standards for system interoperability across workflows, data, and security. This includes defining field mappings, maintaining a comprehensive data dictionary, implementing ESB guidelines, and setting robust error-handling protocols.
• Ensure all integrations adhere to security, compliance, data governance, and performance standards and apply appropriate design patterns. This includes supporting continuous data integrity across systems, enabling secure data flows, enforcing API standards, managing version control, and overseeing the full integration lifecycle.

Technical Leadership [30%]

• Provide guidance, and hands-on engineering support throughout design, development, deployment and support to development teams including vendor contractors.
• Conduct system design, code and integration plan reviews to ensure sound design and best practices are followed.
• Support cross-functional teams in resolving system interoperability issues, integration error handling, and preventing integration-related bottlenecks while clearly communicating architectural vision, the integration roadmap, solution trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.

Collaboration & Communication [30%]

• Participate in project activities including sprint planning, technical grooming, and planned system releases and support troubleshooting, performance tuning, error-handling, and post-incident analysis of all existing and future integrations.
• Partner with the IT Operations, Cybersecurity, Service Desk and Change Management teams to ensure successful integration deployments, assess business impact and gather feedback.
• Partner closely with operational functions within the various departments at Earthjustice i.e. the business stakeholders to translate their need into technical solutions for integrations and automations affecting their systems.
• Ongoing Learning
• Actively pursue professional development and contribute to a culture of learning by building skills and sharing knowledge.

Please note that the percentage breakdowns provided above serve as a guideline and that other duties may be assigned as part of the job's requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Certification is required in at least one of the integration platforms like MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica or similar
• 5+ years of experience in integration architecture, software engineering, or technical leadership roles
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with at least one integration-as-a-service platform like Boomi, Workato, Mulesoft, Informatica or similar
• Hands-on experience with data mapping, transformation, schema design (JSON, XML, XSD), and canonical data models
• Deep understanding of REST APIs, SOAP, messaging (MQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ), event-driven architectures, and microservices
• Strong grasp of security technologies e.g. OAuth, JWT, SSO, encryption, zero-trust integration patterns and API governance
• Strong expertise in modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working for a law firm or nonprofit organizations
• Experience with Legal Technology applications like Intapp, Clio, Filevine
• Experience working in large-scale, enterprise environments with SaaS ERP, CRM systems like Salesforce, NetSuite, SAP, ADP, Workday
• Knowledge of domain-driven design (DDD), design thinking, and architectural frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads, data engineering, or high-volume transactional systems

Salary & Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and excellent, comprehensive benefits. We also offer a casual and congenial work environment.

Salaries at Earthjustice are determined by working location and are commensurate with the experience required.

The annual salary range for this role in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY is $177,800 - $197,500

The annual salary range for this role in Washington, DC is: $168,900 - $187,700

To Apply

Interested candidates should submit the following materials via Jobvite. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

• Resume
• Cover letter

Please Note -

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for personnel so classified.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to employment practices that ensure that employees and applicants for employment are provided with equal opportunities without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the position.

For positions located within the City and County of San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.