HRes Integration Expert

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JOB PURPOSE

The HRES Integration Expert will provide technical expertise and, increasing over time, thought leadership to the HRES organization on how best to leverage its Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) platform. This role is accountable to ensure a stable, reliable and effective operating environment to support the IPaaS platform and related infrastructure (e.g., servers). The Integration Expert will participate in the design of data integration approaches that meet business requirements and leverage HRES investment in IPaaS. This position will establish and maintain an effective working relationship with the product vendor (focused on technical capability, incident management, support and platform strategy, including updates, patches and new features), as well as the development teams that will use the integration platform. It is also expected that this position will contribute to the creation and maintenance of development standards for the effective use of the integration platform.

QUALIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Experienced HRIS professional
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing integrations and/or web services using various methods (e.g., API Protocols and data formats, such as REST, JSON, SOAP & XML)
- Proven expertise in building integrations using SnapLogic
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies
- Understanding and experience of Enterprise/Solution architecture methodologies
- Experience developing in Agile Methodology
- Experience with enterprise integration tools
- Experience working with remote development teams (on and off-shore a plus)
- Understanding of project management methodology and system management methodology
- Ability to share and communicate ideas, both orally and in writing to HRES team, technical resources and vendor support in clear language
- Strong problem-solving skills and innovation mindset
- Strong analysis skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies.
- Quick to embrace new technologies and ability to train others
- Works well in a fast-paced environment
- Must be able to execute projects involving multiple teams with supervision, must be proactive
- Must be open to evaluate, research and present new/alternate technologies in integration and non-integration space
- Foundational consultative, facilitation and consensus building skills
- Passion for working with data and supporting analytic business solutions
- Must have demonstrated strong problem-solving skills
- Must be open to work during off hours/days as the need may arise

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for managing the HRES Integration-Platform-as-a-Service (IPaaS) middleware platform, SnapLogic
- Provide expert guidance/assistance to the team on technical aspects, especially on problem solving and performance tuning
- Research alternate solutions and educate team on industry trends
- Collaborate with HRES teams, especially Product Delivery and Consulting, to provide integration solution design and implementation
- Work effectively in a global team environment
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with various HRES organizations to ensure consistent, supportable, and effective use of IPaaS platform.
- Collaborate with and support HRES Consulting to gather customer requirements and assess opportunities
- Focus on continuous improvement and stability within the platform
- Establish and maintain an effective relationship with platform vendor to understand software release schedules, roadmap of product features, development best practices, etc.
- Manage relevant platform updates per vendor guidelines and best practices (including software patches, updates, security and new deployment of new capability)
- Participate in planning meetings and provide platform perspective to the team
- Assist in the development of project plans related to the platform (including change and risk management)
- Build extensible data acquisition and integration solutions to meet the functional and non-functional requirements of the business
- Implement processes and logic to extract, transform, and distribute data across one or more data stores from a wide variety of sources
- Optimize data integration platform to provide optimal performance under increasing data volumes
- Upload data into appropriate systems in accurate and timely manner
- Conduct review of other integration developers’ development efforts to ensure consistent methodologies are followed and to make recommendations where necessary
- Manage the platform lifecycle and establish a mid-term strategic roadmap for IPaaS platform.
- Design and maintain integration templates, define related standards, an