Systems Architect

Systems Engineer Position Description

The ideal candidate brings 3–5 years of relevant experience, strong SQL, GoLang, and Python skills, and a working knowledge of web services, file-based exchange, and modern data tooling. They are equally comfortable writing code, troubleshooting complex integration issues, coordinating with vendor technical teams, and communicating clearly with business stakeholders. This is a role for someone who is highly motivated, takes ownership of their work, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

This role is a hands‑on technical contributor who designs, builds, and maintains the integrations, data pipelines, and application solutions that connect and power RWI's operational and analytical systems. This role spans the full delivery lifecycle from evaluating and modernizing business technology to building reliable system integrations, governing data quality, and leading technical projects from requirements through rollout.

Essential duties and responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to:

• Design and implement integrations with internal and external systems using web services, file‑based exchange, and EDI patterns.
• Work within existing codebases to maintain and develop new features for internal applications.
• Serve as a liaison between vendor technical teams and internal business units or end users.
• Troubleshoot existing system integrations issues to minimize business impact while driving process improvement.

• Implement data quality checks and validation rules at key pipeline stages, including governed error logging and systematic improvements to reduce or eliminate recurring issues.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation across the full project lifecycle, including process maps, metadata practices, testing plans, integration specs, and rollout tasks that build trust in platform data and support consistent, repeatable delivery.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, estimates, and work plans for design, development, and rollout tasks.
• Continuously improve pipeline performance, observability, security, and maintainability.

• Evaluates the current business technology landscape and recommend new technologies, upgrades, or enhancements to modernize business applications and improve business performance.
• Conducts functional and empirical analysis to support the design, development, and implementation of data solutions and tools.
• Support pragmatic build‑vs‑buy decisions while maintaining architectural integrity.

• Leads end‑to‑end technical project delivery, owning application design, software specifications, and engineering process decisions from requirements through rollout. This includes completing estimates and work plans and coordinating internal and external development resources to ensure new technology integrates effectively with legacy solutions.
• Proactively manages quality and risk by communicating timely status updates and escalating potential risks or issues to appropriate leaders and teams, providing solutions to minimize business impact, ensuring releases are managed appropriately and all completed work meets the highest quality standards.
• Drives outcomes‑focused execution by assessing and continuously improving software solutions in partnership with external technical resources, balancing engineering rigor with business requirements to deliver technology products that produce measurable operational results.
• Available to support night/weekend teams as needed.
• Other duties as required and assigned.

Qualifications to perform the job successfully include:

Education:

4‑year degree, Business/Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Science focus preferred.

Experience:

3‑5 years relevant professional work experience.

• Experience with Golang (Go), Python, C++, Java, HTTP, FTP, JSON, XML and fixed width files.
• Strong background in SQL Development on MSSQL, MySQL or other relational database platforms.
• Experience implementing and integrating…