Integration Lead

Kaleidoscope Innovation

• $110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on experience in enterprise API and integration design
  • Proficient in REST APIs; SOAP experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with API gateways like Kong, Apigee, or AWS API Gateway
  • Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JWT, and API security practices
  • Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
  • Ability to troubleshoot production issues across multiple systems
  • Strong communication skills for collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end enterprise integrations from design to production support
  • Design and implement REST and SOAP APIs
  • Work with API gateways for routing, authentication, and security
  • Build secure integrations using OAuth 2.0 and SSO
  • Support event-driven integrations using messaging technologies
  • Integrate modern applications with legacy systems and third-party platforms
  • Create and maintain comprehensive integration documentation

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies
  • Health and wellness programs
Full Job Description
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Integration Lead

We are looking for an experienced Integration Lead to own the design, implementation, and delivery of integrations across internal platforms, external vendors, and enterprise systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role - we need someone who can drive the integration strategy and lead engineering teams, but can also step in and personally design, implement, troubleshoot, and validate APIs and integrations when needed.

What You'll Do
  • Own enterprise integrations end-to-end, from initial design through implementation and production support
  • Design and implement REST and SOAP APIs
  • Work with API gateways, including routing, authentication, security policies, and rate limiting
  • Design secure integrations using OAuth 2.0, JWT, and SSO
  • Build and support event-driven and asynchronous integrations using MQ/messaging technologies
  • Integrate modern applications with legacy systems, databases, Salesforce, external vendors, and third-party platforms
  • Support SFTP, EDI, and other file-based integrations
  • Work with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases to validate data and troubleshoot integration issues
  • Lead integration strategy while coordinating developers, vendors, application teams, and other technical stakeholders
  • Manage technical dependencies and drive integrations through successful delivery
  • Troubleshoot production issues across multiple systems and determine where failures are occurring
  • Define and negotiate API contracts with internal teams and external partners
  • Create and maintain integration documentation, including API specifications, data mappings, and sequence diagrams
  • Review and validate integrations developed by other engineers and step in to implement solutions when needed

What We're Looking For
  • Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise APIs and integrations
  • Strong REST API experience; SOAP experience preferred
  • Experience with Kong API Gateway or comparable platforms such as Apigee, MuleSoft API Manager, IBM DataPower/API Connect, WSO2, or Azure/AWS API Gateway
  • Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, authentication, and API security
  • Experience with Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging/event-driven technologies
  • Experience integrating across multiple enterprise applications and third-party/vendor systems
  • Working knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL
  • Experience with SFTP/EDI or other file-based integration patterns
  • Strong production troubleshooting and incident-management skills
  • Ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on enough to personally implement and validate integrations
  • Strong communication skills and experience working across engineering teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors

Nice to Have
  • Salesforce integration experience
  • Okta/SSO experience
  • Insurance or financial-services experience
  • Experience with legacy-to-modern integration environments
  • Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or similar API development/testing tools

The Type of Person We're Looking For

This isn't a pure architect role where you design a solution and hand it off to developers. It's also not a heads-down developer position.

We're looking for someone who can own the integration strategy, lead the teams involved, manage dependencies and drive delivery - while still being technical enough to open their laptop, jump into an API or integration, and implement or troubleshoot it themselves when needed.

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