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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # TELECOMMUTE Principal Architect - Node.js - **Company:** VALUE SPECTRUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Applications Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Node.Js, OAuth, Swagger, JSON Web Token, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Openapi, Enterprise Software Applications, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Software Security, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Enterprise Integration, Virtual Agents, Api Design, Api Gateway, Restful APIs, Api Management, Microservices - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a2501f7f-de6e-45d1-84fc-ae828fda9324 ## About the Role * Principal / Enterprise / Solution Architecture experience in large-scale enterprise environments. * Strong hands-on experience with: + Node.js + TypeScript + React + REST APIs + Microservices + API Gateway / API Management + Event-driven architecture * Strong understanding of API lifecycle management, API discovery, API inventory, API governance, and API rationalization. * Experience with AI Agents / Agentic AI / LLM-based tools and AI-assisted engineering. * Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications and engineering workflows. * Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems. * Experience with API specifications such as OpenAPI / Swagger. * Experience analyzing API dependencies, consumers, producers, versions, and usage patterns. * Strong understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, and API security. * Experience with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes. * Strong communication, architecture documentation, technical leadership, and stakeholder-management skills. ## Description We are seeking a Principal Architect with strong hands-on experience in Node.js, TypeScript, React, API architecture, and AI Agent technologies to lead architecture initiatives for an API Discovery, Inventory & Rationalization workstream. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in modern application architecture, API ecosystems, enterprise integration, and AI-assisted engineering. This role will define architecture patterns and technical strategies for discovering, cataloging, analyzing, rationalizing, and modernizing enterprise APIs using intelligent automation and AI Agent capabilities., * Define and lead the technical architecture and solution strategy for API Discovery, Inventory, and Rationalization. * Architect scalable applications and services using Node.js, TypeScript, and React. * Design and implement frameworks for discovering APIs across enterprise applications, repositories, gateways, documentation, and runtime environments. * Define API inventory and cataloging strategies, including API ownership, consumers, dependencies, lifecycle, versions, usage, and health. * Lead API rationalization initiatives to identify duplicate, redundant, obsolete, overlapping, and modernization candidates. * Leverage AI Agents, Agentic AI, LLMs, and AI-assisted development tools to automate API discovery, classification, documentation, dependency analysis, and rationalization. * Evaluate and integrate AI Agent tools/frameworks into enterprise engineering workflows. * Design intelligent workflows that can analyze API specifications, source code, documentation, logs, traffic patterns, and metadata. * Establish enterprise-level API architecture standards, governance, design patterns, and best practices. * Design RESTful APIs, event-driven integrations, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. * Collaborate with engineering, product, security, platform, data, and enterprise architecture teams. * Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to senior engineers and development teams. * Evaluate technology choices, conduct architecture reviews, and drive proof-of-concepts for emerging technologies. * Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, security, reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability. * Drive API modernization and migration strategies where legacy APIs can be consolidated, replaced, or retired. * Establish CI/CD and automation patterns supporting API lifecycle management. * Create architecture documentation, reference architectures, technical standards, and decision records. ## Related Videos - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [API‑First: How Twilio Designs for Developers - Justin Kitagawa (Twilio)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1801-api-first-how-twilio-designs-for-developers-justin-kitagawa-twilio) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) - [Lessons learned from observing a billion API requests](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1574-lessons-learned-from-observing-a-billion-api-requests) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this)