Integration Architect

This is a remote position.

Position Title: Integration Architect

$86,250 to $143,750 annually DOE

Comprehensive health benefits include - medical, dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick leave and paid time off, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth and education reimbursement programs.

At Ziply Fiber, our mission is to elevate the connected lives of our communities every day. We’re delivering the fastest home internet in the Northwest, with a focus on areas traditionally underserved by mainstream internet companies. And as our state-of-the-art fiber network expands in WA, OR, ID and MT, so does our need for team members who can help us grow and realize our goals.

We may be building internet, but we are reaching real people. We strive to build relationships and provide customers and communities with refreshingly great experiences.

We emphasize our values in all our interactions:

Genuinely Caring: Our customers and colleagues are people, and quite possibly our neighbors. We put ourselves in their shoes and give them our full attention.   

Empowering You: We empower our customers to choose the products that best meet their needs, and we support our employees to implement solutions that elevate the experiences of our customers and coworkers. 

Innovation and Improvement: We always look for ways to make the experiences of our customers – and each other – better.  

Earning Your Trust: We earn trust by communicating simply and transparently as real people, not as a corporation.  

Job Summary:

Integration Architect designs solutions while leading the solution delivery process. The integration Architect will work with the Senior Manager to integrate software designs and components into different hardware components within our infrastructure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of duties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all duties performed.

·        Supports project level technical management functions including the following but not limited to the items below:

o   System functional definition

o   Defining integration development/deployment schedules and management of his/her key areas of responsibility to completion.

o   Coordinating with software engineering and architecture groups, and overall project management to insure proper system and project performance.

·        Collaborates with Product Owners and Senior application analysts to ensure integration requirements and department goals are being met.

·        Lead the development, design, and implementation of new and existing integrations.

·        Design and develop robust, scalable, and performant enterprise-grade integrations and composite services.

·        Define and collaborate on critical technology decisions.

·        Strategize and drive the end-to-end development effort for on time, high quality, highly scalable integration offerings and enhancements.

·        Consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between applications, development of specifications and performance requirements, and/or resolve customer problems.

·        Drive technical innovation by researching and incorporating new technologies and tools into our core system.

·        Modify existing interfaces to correct errors, adapt them to new business problems, or to upgrade them to improve performance.

·        Take ownership of technical issues and collaborate with application development and support groups to resolve more advanced issues when necessary.

·        Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as integration system design or maintenance related activities.

·        Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan the deployment of a new or modifications to existing integrations.

·        Perform analysis of endpoint systems to determine most effective interface strategy. Systems include internal, cloud-based, external services, various operating systems and databases.

·        Execute and/or support functional integration testing of the services for which they are responsible.

·        Perform other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.

Qualifications:

·        Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar field or equivalent experience required.

·        Minimum ten (10) years’ progressive engineering experience and/or integration experience.

·        Minimum five (5) years’ experience working inside of a development life cycle including writing requirement documents, monitoring production pushes, writing code, and tracking version control, and participate in sprint prioritization.

• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Reviewing integration requirements and assessing existing systems. Planning integration strategies and approaches based on business needs.
  

·        Minimum three (3) years’ experience working for large telecommunications company and interfacing with billing, provisioning, field, and networking teams.

• Experience in mitigating and resolving integration risks proactively, serving as the final point for escalations.
  
• Proven architectural experience with a strong understanding of integration patterns and best practices.
  

·        Strong knowledge of API design and development.

·        Strong knowledge of networking protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS; web services including SOAP, REST, and GraphQL.

·        Fluent with designing and building integrations where scalability and performance are important considerations.

·        Expert level in navigating Atlassian tool suite including Confluence and Jira.

·        Extensive experience working with Jira to track project progress and assign prioritization to external business organization’s needs.

·        Extensive experience pushing production sprint roll outs and testing to make sure that the functional changes are solutions to real business needs.

·        Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex integration issues.

·        Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines, and reporting.

·        Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

·        Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

·        Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a variety of situations.

·        Ability to multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet deadlines.

·        Strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills.

·        Ability to work within critical deadlines.

·        Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules.

·        Ability to provide excellent customer service.  

Work Authorization:

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US for any employer.  Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking, or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

Work is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work is primarily a modern office setting.

Diverse Workforce / EEO:

Ziply Fiber is an equal opportunity employer. Ziply Fiber will consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, and the presence of a non-job-related handicap or disability or any other legally protected status.

Ziply Fiber requires a pre-employment background check as conditions of employment. Ziply Fiber may require a pre-employment drug screening.

Ziply Fiber is a drug free workplace.