Integration Technical Lead

Job Description

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

The University of Washington is one of the world's preeminent public universities in impact and funding. Since 1972, the UW has continued to receive more externally sponsored research funding than any other U.S. public university and we are one of the few universities in the U.S. with total research funding nearing two billion. That funding drives crucial, ground-breaking research that transforms lives around the globe. In the Office of Research at UW, we take pride in creating an outstanding climate of support for UW researchers that helps them compete and succeed. However, research administration and regulation is growing in complexity by the day.

The Integration Technical Lead is responsible for the technical strategy, design, and development of all aspects of application systems integration. The incumbent will provide senior-level, technical leadership for integration design, development, programming, and implementation, with an emphasis on architecting systems for widespread software integration capabilities. The immediate need will be to grow the ORIS integration architecture strategy that supports the integration of in-house developed solutions by the Office of Research Information Service (ORIS), Workday Financials, and other University and vendor systems. Along with the specific need to support Workday integrations, the solutions developed must be long-standing and support a multitude of existing and future administrative systems. This role is foundational and critical to the success of ORIS and University applications, infrastructure, and tools that support the breadth of University research.

The Office of Research's constituency is the entire University, including UW branch campuses, medical centers, 277 research centers, and University partners. Across the breadth of the University, there are many intersections with both central and departmental research administration needs. This position contributes technical systems design and development expertise within a diverse team environment that includes participants from a broad range of campus and administrative units including UW-IT and UW Medicine ITS. Successful candidates must interface productively with business analysts, project managers, and other application and infrastructure engineers.

Technical scope requires deep systems knowledge and an ability to quickly learn and understand the policies, functional processes, and procedures of the University. Software complexity in this space ranges from operating system internals to web-based services and applications, database and other persistence mechanisms, and system integrations between differing technologies. ORIS has moved all software application products to AWS, but integrations connect across campus and beyond. The scope of tasks performed span all project phases including design, development, testing, integrating, deploying and operational support.

Strategic Technical Leadership - 35%

• 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

Integration Development - 35%

• 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

Technical Liaison - 10%

• 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

Professional Development - 10%

• 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

Administrative Duties 10%

• Attend recurring organization meetings and one-on-ones with a supervisor
• Engage in planned and unplanned communications
• Participate in recurring HR processes as needed

Lead Responsibilities:

Under the general guidance of the Technology Manager, this position will serve as the organization's technical lead for integration engineering (including web services and bulk data). In coordination and collaboration with other lead software engineers, architects, technology managers, product owners, and project managers the position may assign and direct the work of others, review work assignments, provide performance evaluation input, and/or provide hiring or corrective action input.

Experience 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

Experience desired

• 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

Working Environment Conditions:

This position:

• Contributes to a collaborative teamwork environment where work is done across diverse backgrounds, personalities, and disciplines in a shared working space through scheduled and ad hoc meetings focused on problem solving
• May be required to work in a hybrid environment, using remote and on-site workplaces
• While normally has a Monday-Friday day shift, will occasionally have monitoring and support responsibilities outside of standard business hours to ensure software deployments go smoothly, to respond to incidents, and/or to meet critical deadlines
• May be required to be on call
• Is an essential position and is required to report to work when UW suspends operations when needed
• The ORIS office is in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote; the work schedule is required to overlap 100% of ORIS Office hours between 8 am - 6 pm Pacific Time. This position requires sharing on-call duties with other team members mostly during 8 am - 5 pm PT on weekdays, on occasional evenings and weekends in special cases, and as required on an ad-hoc basis.

Compensation, Benefits and Position Details

Pay Range Minimum:
$129,600.00 annual
Pay Range Maximum:
$140,400.00 annual
Other Compensation:

Benefits:
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First Shift (United States of America)
Temporary or Regular?
This is a regular position
FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):
100.00%
Union/Bargaining Unit:
Not Applicable

About the UW

Working at the University of Washington provides a unique opportunity to change lives - on our campuses, in our state and around the world.

UW employees bring their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world. In return, they enjoy outstanding benefits, opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work in an environment known for its diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

Our Commitment

The University of Washington is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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