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Job Title: AI Tools Integration Architect / Lead Integration Engineer
Location: Chandler, AZ (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Duration: Contract - 12 months
Pay Range: $70.23/hr (W2)
Job ID: 411639
About BCforward
BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.
Job Description
We are seeking a AI Tools Integration Architect / Lead Integration Engineer to join our dynamic team on Project Sparta within the Tools Integration pillar. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in enterprise-scale integration design, API and gateway patterns, and secure platform connectivity and a proven ability to lead cross-domain integration solutions that enable AI and automation to interact with enterprise and network tools.
Responsibilities:
- Translate business and technology needs into complex integration designs, interface definitions, reusable patterns, blueprints, and playbooks aligned to enterprise standards and policies.
- Lead design of advanced integration capabilities that connect AI and automation solutions with enterprise and network tools, platforms, and services.
- Develop and refine reusable connectors, templates, interface patterns, and automation components to improve delivery consistency and scalability.
- Consult across tools, integration patterns, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business and transformation outcomes.
- Evaluate reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for fitness, security, supportability, and alignment to approved architectural patterns.
- Contribute to technology strategy and architectural direction for integration services and provide feedback to architecture and platform teams.
- Establish secure authentication and authorization patterns for governed interactions between models, workflows, and enterprise tools.
- Mentor Infrastructure Engineers and contributors to ensure compliance with enterprise design, engineering, and operational standards.
- Participate in steering committees, design reviews, and technical forums for infrastructure domains, platform onboarding, and integration enablement.
- Review and guide evaluations of third-party and enterprise products for integration, onboarding, or adoption within the transformation ecosystem.
- Develop or guide software and automation that improves manual or inefficient integration processes.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Strong experience designing and leading complex infrastructure tool and service integrations in large enterprises.
- Advanced knowledge of API-based integration patterns, service interfaces, gateways, and platform connectivity approaches.
- Experience defining reusable blueprints, reference patterns, templates, and playbooks for integration delivery.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, secret handling, and secure access for system-to-system and model-to-tool interactions.
- Experience enabling governed interactions among applications, infrastructure tools, automation platforms, and enterprise services.
- Knowledge of infrastructure service design, interface dependencies, resiliency expectations, and operational support models for production-grade integrations.
- Ability to evaluate complex designs for scalability, supportability, and alignment to enterprise standards and guide teams accordingly.
- Experience collaborating across architecture, engineering, platform, security, and delivery stakeholders.
- Familiarity with enterprise and network platforms and the constraints of exposing tool capabilities safely for downstream use.
- Experience contributing to strategy, architecture direction, or roadmaps for integration services and reusable connectivity capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of logging, monitoring, observability, resiliency, and performance expectations for integrated services in production.
- Experience evaluating third-party or enterprise products and interfaces for adoption, integration, and operational support.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain designs, constraints, dependencies, and operational considerations.
- Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical contributors on integration methods and implementation practices.
- Experience in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and cross-functional dependencies.
Preferred Skills:
- Background with network services integration and governed exposure of capabilities via APIs and gateways.
- Experience with AI or agentic workflows interacting with enterprise tools through MCP-style or similar capability models.
Why BCforward?
At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to:
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Opportunities for growth with global clients
- A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects
About Our Commitment
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
Interested? Apply Now!
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply with your most recent resume. Candidates must be local to Chandler, AZ and able to be onsite 3 days per week. The location must be listed on the resume.
