Lead Integration Engineer

About US:

We are a company that provides innovative, transformative IT services and solutions. We are passionate about helping our clients achieve their goals and exceed their expectations. We strive to provide the best possible experience for our clients and employees. We are committed to continuous improvement and innovation, and we are always looking for ways to improve our services and solutions. We believe in working collaboratively with our clients and employees to achieve success.

DS Technologies Inc is looking for Lead Integration Engineer role for one of our premier clients.

Job Title:

Lead Integration Engineer

Location:

Remote

Position Type:
Contract Only W2

The Lead Integration Engineer is a collaborative, hands-on role on the Digital Platform Data Engineering Team responsible for designing sound, scalable, and performant solutions that meet the requirements in a large data volume enterprise, and leading the team responsible for implementation. Solutions and design trade-offs are communicated to business and technical stakeholders for effective decision making.

The Lead Integration Engineer will work on a major IT initiative to enable National Grid Business Partners by improving how our employees serve our customers today and by creating the platform for tomorrow’s growth.

• Perform and collaborate on system designs, data solution development, with a focus on data integration pipelines to/from various platforms and/or legacy systems.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and leadership of engineering team(s) responsible for implementation.
• Updates to integration process data-mappings and data catalogs
• Participate in, and/or lead, design and pre-deployment reviews.
• Data profiling
• Must be comfortable reading/understanding data models.
• Design and development of data synchronization processes
• Participate in the design/development of integration solutions.
• Assist in determining the cross-application data standards, data distribution standards and promote data-driven design
• Create database deliverables ensuring quality and traceability to requirements and adherence to all quality management plans and governance standards
• Work with the team to ensure that all components work together to meet objectives and performance goals as defined in the requirements. Identify and communicate any cross-area or cross-release issues that may affect other areas of the project
• Participate in go-live preparation activities such as QA, dress rehearsals, issue remediation, cutover and go-live aftercare
• Participate in data management maturity assessments to identify gaps and pain points for capabilities including data quality, governance, analytics, metadata management, master data management
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, procedures and systems with regards to data

Experience

Required:

Good team leadership and influencing skills for colleagues, partners / vendors; project sponsors

• 5+ years experience in database development (Snowflake, SQLServer, Oracle, etc)
• 5 years experience designing, coding, and delivering ETL workflows using Matillion (preferred), Informatica, Ab Inito, or Data Stage.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Visio, et al).
• Experience in data mapping, modeling and working with teams to define integration pipelines.
• Experience in a dynamic work environment
• Proven ability to work well in a team environment, and be capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with other staff, departments, and customers
• Strong communicator
• Experience with cloud database architecture is a plus
• Experience with Snowflake is a plus
• Experience with Matillion is a plus
• Experience with real-time data loads is a plus
• Experience with Agile/Lean software development process and practices is a plus
• Experience in with SaaS solutions such as Salesforce, ESRI and Workforce is a plus

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams, subject matter experts, and architects

This is a remote position.