Job Title: Lead Integration Engineer
Engagement Type: Contract-to-Hire
Location: Baltimore, MD area strongly preferred; open to other client office locations
Workplace Type: Hybrid (3 days in-office / 2 remote) or on-site
Client: Brown Advisory
Position Summary
The Lead Integration Engineer is a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for the design, delivery, and ongoing support of integrations connecting Addepar, portfolio management platforms, client reporting tools, and enterprise data systems within a private wealth management technology environment.
This role owns end-to-end delivery of integration builds and provides technical leadership and mentorship to a broader integration engineering team, while partnering closely with architecture, data, security, and vendor stakeholders to keep the integration layer secure, scalable, and reliable.
This is a strong fit for an engineer who has grown into a technical leadership track within wealth or asset management technology and wants ownership over how systems connect across a modern private wealth platform.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the design, build, and delivery of API, middleware, and data integrations across Addepar, Snowflake, Canoe, portfolio management, and client reporting platforms.
- Serve as the senior technical point of contact for integration engineering, providing hands-on development leadership and mentorship to other engineers.
- Own end-to-end delivery of integration builds, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production support handoff.
- Partner with architecture, business, data, security, and vendor teams to translate integration requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards for API design, authentication, data contracts, error handling, logging, and monitoring.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration issues spanning Addepar, portfolio management, client reporting, and enterprise data workflows.
- Support production operations, including release planning, regression testing, incident response, and vendor coordination.
- Contribute to Snowflake-based data integration, including ingestion, transformation, and downstream reporting support.
- Document integration designs, data flows, dependencies, and operational runbooks.
- Participate in Agile delivery ceremonies, code reviews, and technical planning sessions.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent practical experience considered.
- 8+ years of experience in integration engineering, application development, or systems engineering within financial services.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting private wealth management, wealth management, or investment advisory technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience building and delivering API integrations, middleware solutions, and enterprise data integrations.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with modern data platforms such as Snowflake.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentorship, or team lead responsibilities for engineers.
- Experience supporting production systems, including release management, incident response, and vendor coordination.
- Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work a hybrid schedule with regular in-office presence, or on-site as needed.
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Addepar's platform, data model, and API/integration patterns.
- Experience with Canoe or comparable alternative investment document automation platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), containerization, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with REST, event-driven integration, message queues, and file-based integrations.
- Familiarity with financial services regulatory considerations (SOX, AML/KYC, SEC/FINRA).
- Experience with Agile delivery methods and CI/CD practices.
Technical Competencies
- API design and system integration
- Middleware and event-driven integration patterns
- Addepar platform integrations
- Snowflake and modern data platforms
- Canoe and alternative investment data workflows
- Cloud platforms and DevOps practices
- SQL and financial services data domains
- Agile delivery and technical mentorship
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