Data & Integration Developer

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Job Summary

Participates in the building, implementation and ongoing support of integration-centric offerings. Work closely with the Workday Program Team, the other members of the Data & Integrations Team and other cross-functional teams with the ultimate goal of supporting campus leaders to make timely business decisions. As part of a high-performance integration team, focus on driving innovation and improving delivery effectiveness in an environment of the growing demand for real-time data integration across a diverse mix of technologies, protocols, standards, and platforms.

Essential Functions

• Assist in the implementation of integration architectures, roadmaps, and system transition plans to align business, applications, data, integration, and/or infrastructure architecture.
• Collaborate with project teams and business users to document architecture decisions (for example, logical, conceptual, physical diagrams).
• Provide input into the development of the integration strategy and technology direction.
• Educate others throughout the organization on the function of integration methodologies, governance, and standards by serving as a domain guide across business and/or IT teams.
• Support the development and implementation of integration solutions linking cloud and custom on-premises applications, and assist in retiring legacy integrations.
• Identify and implement internal controls and technological improvements to data and information processing systems.
• Assist with the design of data models that support modern data analytics business requirements and current trends in Data Management
• Assess impacts of changes in order to develop optimal solutions to benefit the organization.
• Support the development and maintenance of technical roadmaps and investment plans for the evolution of the enterprise data integration platforms and technologies.
  

Other Functions

All employees are expected to participate in the College's efforts to create a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming work environment.

Minimum Qualifications (knowledge, skills, education, experience, certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor's Degree, plus a minimum of two years' experience architecting and developing large-scale and complex data systems or an equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Significant study in information technology, computer science, data science or related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency in technical writing and documentation.
• Experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with information security, code management, and data management best practices
• Experience working in a higher education, academic environment.
  

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with data modeling concepts and tools.
• Strong ability to explain complex topics to an organizationally diverse group of stakeholders.
• Experience in the authoring and delivering data architecture artifacts including data models, data flows and data mappings.
• Demonstrated experience in object-oriented design, modeling, development, and support of object/relational database systems and systems documentation
• Experience with Oracle SQL query design, query optimization, troubleshooting, stored procedure development, or equivalent database management system
• Programming skills using J2EE, Design Patterns, JMS, SOAP / REST Web Services, XSLT, CXF, Spring Framework, etc.
• Knowledge of EAI /SOA Design Patterns and Best Practices.
• Experience with Web Service/Microservice (WebAPI, JSON) architectures.
• Understanding and demonstrated ability to build solutions using RESTful API endpoints and web services as destination and/or source.
• Must be able to multitask and manage both long and short-term projects.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision in a dynamic team environment.
• Strong tenacity and ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.
• Work effectively, independently, and within a collaborative environment using good judgment in decision-making.
• Strong interpersonal skills, detail oriented and work towards multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Maintain robust awareness of the evolving data integration field, with a particular focus on iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) approaches .
  

Additional Information

All successful ITS staff are known for effectively applied expertise, thoughtful attention to detail, timely and appropriately calibrated follow-up, proactive and constructive problem-solving, openness to new approaches, and for building effective partnerships and trust within ITS, across the College and (where relevant) with external partners.

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Located in Northampton, MA, Smith College is one of the largest women's colleges in the country and is dedicated to excellence in teaching and research across the liberal arts. A faculty of outstanding scholars interact with students in small classes, as advisors, and through student-faculty research projects. The College is a member of the Five College Consortium with Amherst, Hampshire and Mt. Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Students cross-enroll and faculty cross-teach across the Five Colleges.

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