Job DescriptionSr. Solution Engineer ILocation: 5000 Kansas Avenue Kansas City, KS 66106
Work Model: Hybrid
Department: Information TechnologyOverview:The Senior Integration Engineer is the premier customer-facing role serving as an advisor, subject-matter expert, and delivery partner for our customers. As an experienced Engineer with a focus on solution implementation, you'll be responsible for guiding our customers from concept to go-live and rollout. You are a passionate technologist who is up to date on the latest technologies, can dive into processes and loves applying your skills to solve a customer challenge.
Responsibilities:Deliver Solutions (30%) - Work independently to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards.
- Work with other team members on various solutions.
- Deliver technical solutions with the highest quality and on time, on budget.
- Designing and implementing robust end-to-end and cloud-native integration solutions using Microsoft Azure
Support Availability and Services (25%) - Troubleshoot and develop a solution to the problem.
- Collaborate with other developers and other support engineers.
- Being on-call.
Develop IT Strategy (25%) - Collaborate with customers to understand their business problems or needs and desired outcomes.
- In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community.
- Design and document technical integration architecture and strategies.
Development and Continuous Improvement Culture (20%) - Work closely with team members to develop, troubleshoot, and deliver solutions.
- Continuous improvement mentality.
- Open to receive and give constructive feedback.
- Mentor developers in integration technologies and contribute to technical leadership and code reviews.
Requirements:Previous Experience & Education: - Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, computer information systems, or related degree, or experience.
- Minimum 10 years of Application Development experience.
- Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience.
- Experience developing applications and services.
- Experience executing on the organizational operation vision and goals, in alignment with department leadership.
- Solid experience with full SDLC - requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment using waterfall and/or agile methodologies.
- Deep expertise in all types of integration methodologies/platforms including API design/development, Event driven, batch and cloud services.
- Experience with application development, API Management, microservices frameworks, middleware, container orchestration, and databases.
Knowledge & Skills: - Design and develop enterprise integration solutions using Azure Integration Services including Azure API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Logic Apps.
- Experience in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Pub/Sub integration methodologies, B2B/EDI integration, and API Management for real-time, batch, and hybrid APIs.
- Build microservices using Java/Spring Boot and integrate them with Azure services.
- Implement security for APIs and backend services.
- Establish enterprise integration patterns, design guidelines, governance frameworks, and best practices.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices architecture, event-based/message architectures.
- Knowledge of IBM Integration Bus (IIB)/ App Connect Enterprise (ACE), MQ and DataPower/API Gateways (or similar).
- Develop Terraform scripts to provision Azure Integration Services across multiple environments and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines is a plus
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies.
- Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives in working towards delivering an exceptional product experience.
- Knowledge in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications.
- Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environments.
- A continual learner who analyzes success and failures and looks for continual improvements. Strong personal accountability to push past barriers. Not afraid to experiment to find new solutions.
- Ability to see the broader perspective and/or future looking perspective. Not afraid to guide others on tech/analyst tasks and share subject matter/business process or technical expertise.
- Skilled in documentation/ deliverables required to support SDLC/ methodology expectations.
- Self-motivated to seek out information, research, analyze and diagnose when subject matter expertise is not available.
- Strong collaborator and team player.
Benefits:- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Paid Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time
- 401(k) with 4% match along with 3 other contributions
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Basic & Supplemental Life and AD&D
- Employee Assistance Program
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Wellness Program
- Yearly Holiday Bonus
