Chicago, IL
Application Architect jobs in Chicago, IL
3 open roles from 2 employers. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
What these openings look like
2 employers are hiring here: Health Care Service Corporation and Huntington Bank. 2 of the 3 publish a pay range, running $92,700 to $167,500 a year. The rest do not say. Every posting is full time. The most recent went up on Oct 5, 2026.
Every listing links to the employer's own application. Nothing is posted here on their behalf, and nothing is reposted from anywhere else.
Open roles
What it pays here
Only some employers publish a range. These are the ones that did, as written in their own postings:
- $92,700–$167,500 a year
What they ask application architect candidates here
Drawn from the 3 open postings on this page. The ones that come up across several employers are near the top.
How do you make sure a project team's design lines up with the application architecture roadmap without slowing them down?
What they are checking: Ability to guide teams toward the roadmap with practical patterns instead of acting as a gatekeeper.
Walk me through how you would define the interaction between a packaged application, a database and middleware for a new feature.
What they are checking: Integration design skill, which is the core of this role according to the posting.
When would you integrate two systems through APIs versus messaging or batch file transfer?
What they are checking: Understanding of tradeoffs in latency, reliability and coupling across integration styles.
Tell me about a design decision you made that you later regretted. What did you learn?
What they are checking: Honest reflection on architecture tradeoffs and how their judgment has grown.
A team wants to customize a SaaS product heavily to match their current process. How do you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that heavy customization of SaaS creates upgrade and support costs later.
How have you used CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Bamboo, and how does that shape the way you design applications?
What they are checking: DevOps experience and whether their designs make automated builds and deployments easy.
You are the subject matter expert for a product that needs to integrate with several others. A team blames your product for a failure. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they troubleshoot calmly with evidence across teams instead of getting defensive about the product they own.
Which design patterns do you rely on most in application configuration, and why?
What they are checking: Depth of real design knowledge beyond naming patterns.
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