Staff Integration Engineer- TechOps
About the Role We are looking for a Staff Engineer Data Integration with 7+ years of experience to provide architectural leadership while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day technical and operational activities. This role owns the stability, performance, and evolution of enterprise integration platforms across messaging, streaming, batch, ETL, and EDI systems. What Youll Do
Responsibilites:
- Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture and reference patterns.
- Drive modernization of integrations to event-driven and streaming-based designs.
- Decide platform usage patterns for Kafka vs MQ vs RabbitMQ based on workload.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance across integration systems.
- Govern schema evolution, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies.
- Review, design, and approve integration flows, message schemas, and data contracts.
- Actively participate in production monitoring for Kafka, MQ, RabbitMQ, ETL, and batch jobs.
- Perform daily health checks on integration platforms (throughput, lag, queue depth, failures).
- Lead triage and resolution of production issues, including Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive permanent fixes and preventive actions.
- Review and optimize Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, MQ queues, and exchanges.
- Ensure batch and ETL jobs meet performance SLAs and data accuracy requirements.
- Oversee EDI transaction flows, partner onboarding, and issue resolution.
- Validate deployments, configuration changes, and releases to integration platforms.
- Enforce operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call readiness for integration systems.
Technical Skills
- Provide hands-on guidance and troubleshooting for complex integration implementations.
- Review critical code changes, ETL logic, batch frameworks, and messaging configurations.
- Lead design and technical reviews for high-impact integration initiatives.
- Guide teams on performance tuning, retry mechanisms, idempotency, and error handling
- Define monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for integration pipelines.
- Ensure integration platforms comply with security, audit, and data governance policies.
- Partner with SRE and Infra teams to improve resilience, DR, and capacity planning.
- Drive automation for operational tasks and repetitive manual activities.
Behavioural Competencies
- Mentor senior and staff engineers on integration best practices.
- Support product and business teams by translating requirements into operationally sound solutions.
- Act as escalation point for complex technical and operational issues.
Influence roadmap decisions based on operational insights and production realities
Who You Are- 7+ years of experience in enterprise integration, middleware, or data engineering.
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ
- Batch processing and ETL frameworks
- EDI integrations
- Proven experience operating high-volume, mission-critical integration platforms.
- Strong understanding of event-driven systems, asynchronous messaging, and data consistency.
- Demonstrated experience handling production operations at scale.
