Collibra Integration & Platform Engineer

Position Summary

We're looking for a Collibra Integration & Platform Engineer to develop, integrate, deploy, and maintain the software and infrastructure components supporting agency's Collibra Enterprise Data Catalog. Leads API integration, JDK-based microservices, server-component maintenance, automated testing, credential management, logging, troubleshooting, source control, and Agile work tracking for a government agency located in the Washington DC metro area. Work structure is hybrid and would be required to work in our office 2-3 days per week at our Reston, VA location.

Position is contingent upon contract award.

• Develop, maintain, and support JDK-based microservices supporting Collibra integrations.
• Build and maintain REST API integrations between Collibra and agency data sources, applications, and services.
• Implement structured logging, monitoring, exception handling, and diagnostic capabilities.
• Develop unit, integration, regression, and deployment tests.
• Support Collibra Workflow Designer and Workflow Manager for Eclipse implementations requiring custom integration logic.
• Support Collibra Edge and Jobserver installations, connections, upgrades, and integration dependencies.
• Maintain supporting software components on Linux and Windows servers.
• Manage application certificates, secrets, service accounts, credentials, and connection dependencies in coordination with agency security personnel.
• Diagnose API, network, credential, harvesting, lineage, and environment-specific issues.
• Maintain source code, branching, versioning, peer-review, and release-management practices.
• Track epics, stories, tasks, defects, dependencies, and acceptance criteria in agency-approved Agile platforms.
• Prepare deployment packages, test results, installation procedures, configuration records, and release notes.
• Support technical demonstrations, sprint reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and knowledge transfer.
• Serve as backup technical support for Edge, Jobserver, workflows, and metadata harvesting.
• Manage platform infrastructure (cloud-hosted or on-premise), handle upgrades, optimize cluster performance, and enforce security policies like Single Sign-On (SSO), OAuth, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Configure and scale Collibra Edge sites and capability components to automatically harvest technical metadata, profiling data, and end-to-end data lineage from databases, BI tools, and ETL pipelines.
• Build automated pipelines to ingest metadata from modern data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Gov Cloud, and enterprise applications (ex: Service Now).

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on platform engineering experience with Collibra DGC Architecture (EDGE).
• Demonstrated experience developing or supporting JDK-based microservices
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• Experience building and maintaining REST API integrations.
• Experience with logging, exception handling, coding, and integration testing.
• Experience maintaining software components on Linux servers.
• Experience maintaining software components on Windows servers.
• Experience managing certificates, secrets, service accounts, credentials, and associated integration dependencies.
• Experience using source-code management platforms.
• Experience tracking Agile work under epics, stories, and tasks.
• Experience supporting enterprise application integrations and multi-environment deployments.

• Experience with federal government projects.
• Current Collibra Solution Architect or Collibra Ranger certification
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Must be able to pass a federal background investigation prior to starting work and maintain eligibility throughout the engagement.

Salary range for this position is $ - $

Work Authorization: Government customer requires U.S. citizenship to work on the program. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Join a collaborative team supporting high-impact federal programs that incorporate innovative technology solutions. You'll have the opportunity to lead complex modernization initiatives, work alongside talented technical professionals, and help shape the future of government IT and data management.

Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.