Forward Deployed Data Integration Engineer

About the role

You will join ASCENT (AI Services for Continuous Enterprise Transformation) as a Forward Deployed Data Integration Engineer, based in Alpharetta. You will design, build, and operate production-grade data integrations that access and update data across diverse customer systems and enable agentic AI workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business analysts to understand customer data requirements and extraction cadence.
• Identify data sources across customer system landscapes and define appropriate extraction techniques.
• Build, operate, and support production-grade data pipelines for AI workflows.
• Develop extractors that populate the Aptean semantic layer, including ontology nodes and relationships.
• Troubleshoot data extraction, transformation, and integration issues and improve reliability.

About you

You communicate integration designs, constraints, and status clearly to customers and internal stakeholders. You can work across diverse systems and quickly understand customer system landscapes. You have strong written and spoken English communication skills suited to client-facing work.

Qualifications

• 4–10 years of experience integrating enterprise systems and extracting data.
• Strong proficiency in Python scripting and automation.
• Ability to write efficient SQL queries for data analysis and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with APIs, enterprise integrations, and systems of record such as ERP and CRM.
• Familiarity with AI-related integration patterns such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).

To be ahead of the pack, you might have:

• Knowledge of business processes such as order to cash and procure to pay.
• Experience accessing and updating customer systems using API calls and SQL queries.
• Experience with development environments and enterprise integration tools.

What's in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.