Under the direction of the Integration Architect, the Senior Integration Developer role provides advanced system architecture, development, and knowledge transfer on the enterprise platform and cloud infrastructure configuration. The role is adept at problem assessment and searches for and implements practical solutions. The role ensures the enterprise applications are perpetually and consistently accessible, functioning efficiently, and confidential data is protected and secure. The Integration Developer designs, configures, deploys, and supports integrations across enterprise applications, such as Student Information System, Identity & Access Management, Student Award Cloud Microsoft and Salesforce Education Cloud. The role leads the development, implementation, and support of integrations with critical enterprise solutions to provide valuable information and consolidated data on students, faculty, staff, alumni, contacts, prospects, and donors to improve client partnership and engagement. Serving as an expert technical resource and subject matter expert, the Senior Integration Developer role takes integration requirements from concept to implementation. The Senior Integration Developer role ensures accuracy and integrity of data in accordance with York University's mandates to enforce privacy and security safeguards that protects access to the data, and meets compliance requirements, through detailed analysis, coding, clear documentation, and problem resolution. The role ensures the integration(s) function as designed adheres with defined functional and technical requirements. The role collaborates and cooperates, with other system architects and technical lead colleagues, on interface design, testing and implementation, and recommends solutions to ensure security and compliance with York University's enterprise architecture. The role creates, configures, and maintains system components for enterprise-wide applications. The role develops application functionality and/or extensions to provide reliable, stable, and efficient software solutions and service. The role serves as the technical lead for the enterprise-level integrations. As such, the role is responsible for technical design, recommending business-optimized and enterprise-architecture aligned solutions and options, and performing reliable and efficient development work, QA testing, and implementing solutions. The role articulates and shares how a culture of modern application delivery techniques brings development and operations together for faster delivery times, enables digital transformation, and breaks down silos at York University.
Education:
University Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Management Information System or an equivalent of four (4) years of recent experience (defined as within the last five years) working at York University and performing the same or similar tasks. This education equivalency is in addition to the experiential requirements below.
Experience:
- 7 years of related experience with major relational database management systems (e.g., Oracle or Microsoft SQL) which includes a minimum of:
- 5 years of hands-on experience with SQL
- 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud data architecture and integrations, designing solutions for the cloud and hybrid/private cloud, and implementing the solutions
- Experience with Python or Java
- Comprehensive knowledge of data architecture, including data modelling, data governance (policies, standards, processes & quality) and data management (identify, collect/ingest, process, orchestrate, store, organize, secure, access & integrity)
- Comprehensive knowledge of data management patterns, techniques and solutions, including master data management, data pipeline, data warehousing, data lakes, data ingestion & connectivity tools (ETL, Azure Databricks, Spark, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture, industry best practices and modern technologies across a broad area of technical domains, including cloud, infrastructure, middleware and databases, security, networking, software development, identity and access management, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Knowledge of event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
- Thorough knowledge of a cloud platform like Azure.
- Experience with enterprise Higher Education technologies.
Skills:
- Efficient analytical skills and evaluative skills.
- Effective organizational skills.
- Effective communication skills to elicit, interpret and summarize information.
- Ability to work and communicate in a professional and business-like manner.
- Ability and willingness to work effectively as a member of a team.
- Ability to use tact and diplomacy and discretion when dealing with others.
- Ability to recognize and respect others' diversity and individual differences.
- Effective service orientation coupled with an ability to assess the operational significance of a problem and to set priorities accordingly.
- Ability to exercise good judgment in analyzing and evaluating situations/circumstances and solving problems.
- Time prioritization skills, such as, effective organizational skills to handle conflicting priorities, multi-task and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work independently to identify and accomplish key objectives in an environment of high volume and frequent interruptions.
- Ability to exercise initiative and work effectively as a team member to achieve and support unit/organizational goals.
- Ability and willingness to keep up to date with application development tools.
- Effective deployment skills within application and web servers.
Additional Notes:
This position requires the candidate to produce a verification of degree(s), credentials(s), or equivalencies from accredited institutions and/or international equivalents at the time of interview.
