Senior Data Integration Engineer

About the Role
We are seeking a highly specialized Senior Data Integration Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust, scalable integrations across a complex enterprise ecosystem. This role focuses on enabling seamless system-to-system data flows, ensuring high availability, and providing real-time access to data across legacy, cloud, and SaaS platforms.

You will act as a subject matter expert in enterprise data movement and virtualization, bridging the gap between disparate technologies while ensuring integration reliability, governance, and performance at scale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Integration Architecture & Design
   Design and implement complex enterprise integration patterns, including API-led connectivity, event-driven architectures, and batch ETL
   • Architect scalable, secure, and resilient system-to-system data flows across heterogeneous environments
   • Develop reusable integration frameworks and enforce enterprise integration standards
   • Collaborate with enterprise architects and business stakeholders to align integrations with strategic objectives
2. Pipeline Development & Real-Time Data Movement
   Build and maintain high-throughput ETL/ELT pipelines using Qlik Talend (Cloud or On-Premise)
   • Implement and optimize log-based Change Data Capture (CDC) and low-latency replication using Qlik Replicate
   • Support zero-downtime migrations and real-time streaming integrations
   • Perform complex data mapping, transformation, validation, and reconciliation across source and target systems
   • Optimize performance and ensure scalability of integration pipelines
3. Data Virtualization & System Connectivity
   Leverage Denodo (or similar platforms) to create enterprise data virtualization layers for real-time data access without physical movement
   • Design and implement semantic layers and virtual data services
   • Integrate diverse platforms including on-premise databases, legacy mainframes, cloud data warehouses, and SaaS applications (e.g., Salesforce, Workday, SAP)
   • Design and consume REST and SOAP APIs and manage integrations across multiple protocols (SFTP, JDBC, messaging queues)
4. Reliability, Governance & Leadership
   Implement robust error handling, monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms
   • Ensure data integrity, security, and high availability of integration services
   • Enforce governance standards including data lineage, metadata management, and compliance controls
   • Provide technical leadership, define coding standards, and promote best practices in integration design
   • Mentor junior engineers and support continuous improvement within integration teams

Requirements & Qualifications

Must-Have Skills & Experience:
• 6+ years of professional experience in data integration, ETL development, middleware administration, or ente