University of Washington · 2 months ago
Integration Technical Lead
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$130K/yr - $140K/yr
6+ years expThe University of Washington is one of the world’s leading public universities, known for its significant research funding and impact. The Integration Technical Lead is responsible for the technical strategy, design, and development of application systems integration, providing senior-level technical leadership to ensure the stability and sustainability of integration solutions across various university systems.
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Responsibilities
Lead integration engineers (and other ORIS staff) in understanding key concepts, industry best practices, and organizational principles, strategies, and conventions related to integration and software engineering via mentoring, meetings, hands-on learning, code review, and documentation to ensure ORIS products are stable, secure, and sustainable in the cloud; provide functional and non-functional requirements based on these practices
Collaborate with organization leadership and staff to understand and advise on the strategic direction of integrations that ORIS can identify, understand, and assess risks and opportunities with respect to the products and strategies they maintain and develop
Develop technical diagrams, roadmaps, and other planning documents to account for the risks and opportunities assessed to be most essential to maximizing the value delivered by integrations (web service and bulk data) for advancing the organization's mission, principles, and strategies; groom and sequence initiatives and epics that advance these approaches
Work in collaboration with UW-IT, UW Medicine ITS, and a wide range of other campus partners to integrate with a variety of enterprise-scale solutions
Mentor and guide team members on integration best practices, component reuse, and secure design to ensure services and systems are sustainable, stable, and secure
Turn technology transformation strategy into action in the form of solution and integration design, development, testing, implementation, and support
Responsible for the accurate documentation for system architectural design and that the documentation is disseminated and understood by staff with varying levels of technical aptitude
Ensure software development delivery meets ORIS unit goals and objectives including the stability, security, and sustainability of all ORIS products and services
Provide technical leadership and consultation to the University and client departments as needed
Assist in building and improving application integrations and component reuse and efficient use of new technologies and policy adherence
Design, develop, test, implement, and support scalable, loosely coupled integration solutions, data pipelines, RESTful APIs, and AWS services (e.g., MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge) to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of ORIS systems and infrastructure
Architect, develop and deploy complex and high volume integrations (both web service and bulk data) that cater to the University research community
Participate in all aspects of SDLC including Scrum-Agile rituals
Develop software integrations in compliance with University policies, business processes, and technology systems
Participate in UW technology integration initiatives that involve ORIS-supported systems, especially with Workday
Build strong relationships, working with diverse technical and business partner groups, both internal and external to the University of Washington
Effectively communicate and collaborate technical information with a wide range of people with varying levels of technical expertise
Mentor and advise diverse staff at all levels of the organization on software engineering and operations best practices
Engage in professional development opportunities and share knowledge attained with other staff
Maintain an awareness of industry, institutional, and organizational trends, best practices, standard solutions, and constraints
Become familiar with research administration in an R1 university setting in order to streamline its supporting business processes
Attend recurring organization meetings and one-on-ones with a supervisor
Engage in planned and unplanned communications
Participate in recurring HR processes as needed
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related Field
6 Years of experience in software engineering to include at least the following minimum professional experience within those 6 years:
+ 5 years hands-on experience as an individual contributor to software integration design, implementation, maintenance, and operation in accordance with industry standards and security best practices and patterns (such as APIs, Microservices, Pub/Sub, Batch, streaming, etc.) for complex integrations with a focus on performance engineering and loose coupling utilizing APIs and Services
+ 2 years of demonstrated history of progressive responsibility in leading software engineering teams with diverse backgrounds and abilities
+ 3 years of demonstrated experience working with AWS (including experience with most of the following: Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, EC2, Route53, Elastic Container Service (ECS), DMS, and RDS)
+ 2 years of demonstrated experience with most of the following: the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, CloudHub, Dataweave, RAML, Swagger (OpenAPI), Java, Maven, the JDK
Demonstrated experience with SOA design principles and practices
Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively in both oral and written mediums with individuals and groups in order to socialize information and knowledge with a diverse group of colleagues
Demonstrated ease in technical and non-technical review as both reviewer and reviewee in order to facilitate collaborative group activities such as change control and pull request review
Demonstrated ability to work independently and with a team
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot application and software development environment/configuration issues
Experience working in a Scrum-Agile environment
Excellent time and priority management ability
Preferred
Multiple integration technologies including SOAP and REST
Exposure to the Workday suite of applications/modules
Experience with Workday data model, security, integrations and data load capabilities
Knowledge of integration capabilities of applications like Salesforce, Workday, SAP, NetSuite, Service Now, Dynamics, etc
Object, data, metadata, process, and/or information modeling
Application performance monitoring and management
OpenAPI Specification (Swagger)
Automated testing
Real-time data to support business intelligence reporting
Postman API Platform
Git Version Control
JavaScript, including Node.js, npm, AngularJS and Angular (2+)
Common content exchange formats, including YAML and JSON
Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
Cloud-native application development (containers and containers orchestration, machine learning, function as a service)
Secure web application development practices
Lean/Agile software development methodologies
Work in higher education and/or research administration
Benefits
For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/
Company
University of Washington
University of Washington is an educational institution that provides undergraduate, graduate, and research programs.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$205.35MKey Investors
Avista foundationNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesAdvanced Research Projects Agency for Health
2025-04-21Grant· $0.01M
2024-09-13Grant
2024-08-13Grant· $21.1M
Leadership Team
Andrew S Allen
Adjunct Professor
Arthur Denny
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