Principal Engineer (Integration Manager)

Requirements Experience - 11+yrs Extensive experience in enterprise integration architecture, solution architecture, and technical leadership. Strong expertise in enterprise integration patterns, interface design, and integration across multiple interconnected systems. Proven experience in solution management, project delivery, resource planning, risk management, and release governance. Strong understanding of REST/SOAP APIs, synchronous and asynchronous communication, microservices, JSON/XML, and API security, including OAuth. Knowledge of ESB, MFT, event-driven architecture, schedulers, batch processing, and file-based integrations. Strong business analysis skills, including requirements gathering, functional specifications, use-case definition, and solution documentation. Experience creating and reviewing UML diagrams, sequence diagrams, flow diagrams, interface specifications, and field mappings. Proven ability to manage Agile/Scrum delivery, project timelines, effort estimation, resource allocation, dependencies, defects, and stakeholder expectations. Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing business and technical stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle. Familiarity with cloud fundamentals and integration services across AWS and Microsoft Azure. Experience with integration monitoring, debugging, log analysis, ELK dashboards, ServiceNow, and Confluence. Excellent communication, problem-solving, negotiation, decision-making, and team management skills. Experience managing integrations involving 10 or more enterprise systems is preferred. Exposure to Apigee API Management, TIBCO, or similar enterprise integration platforms is an advantage. AWS/Azure certifications and experience with enterprise integration monitoring tools are desirable. Notice period: Immediate to 30 days. Responsibilities Lead enterprise integration initiatives, drive solution architecture, and translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable technical solutions. Design and oversee enterprise integration solutions using APIs, file-based transfers, event-driven architecture, and batch processing. Define integration patterns, interface specifications, data mappings, and error-handling mechanisms across interconnected enterprise systems. Drive requirements gathering, business analysis, functional documentation, use-case definition, and end-to-end solution design. Lead integration architecture discussions involving REST/SOAP APIs, microservices, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Managed File Transfer (MFT), and event-driven systems. Define and oversee API security, authentication, authorization, and integration testing using tools such as Postman. Manage end-to-end project delivery, including project planning, effort estimation, resource allocation, sprint execution, release management, production deployment, and hypercare. Identify and manage project risks, dependencies, defects, escalations, KPIs, SLAs, and delivery governance. Coordinate business analysts, solution architects, developers, QA engineers, and operations teams to ensure successful project execution. Engage with business stakeholders and technical teams to align integration solutions with business objectives, timelines, and quality standards. Monitor integration performance, troubleshoot production issues, and drive root-cause analysis using logs, ELK dashboards, and operational monitoring tools. Ensure comprehensive technical documentation, including UML diagrams, sequence diagrams, process flows, interface specifications, and field mappings. Drive Agile/Scrum delivery practices, stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement across integration initiatives.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.