Integration Lead

The agency has a workforce of over 30,000 employees dedicated to providing the best services possible. Ensures to provide a wide range of skills to build an inclusive and rewarding culture. Agency features two of the largest and busiest ports in the nation – Port Miami and Miami International Airport – as well as Zoo Miami, the only tropical zoo in the continental United States.

Minimum Skills Required

• The candidate will work alongside a diverse technical and non-technical team supporting various County Departments, on the implementation of a third-party vendor system. The candidate s work will focus on leading efforts to integrate the new vendor software solution with existing county and third-party systems. This will include organization, planning, execution, and monitoring of integration related work, closely liaising with various County and vendor teams.
  
  

Experience With The Following Is Required

• Complex IT software projects in a large organization using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Design, development, and implementation of interfaces/integrations between complex systems including third party and in-house developed applications.
• Systems architecture, integration architecture and methods, and data concepts and practices.
• Variety of integration methods and technologies including Web services and APIs, as well as fat-file based approaches, etc.
• IT standards and protocols.
• Proficient in both written and verbal communications.
  
  

Experience With The Following Is Desired

• Proven experience developing successful software integration solutions in an enterprise environment on industry standard integration suites on multiple projects.
• Experience with IT project management and vendor management.
  
  

Work Duties May Include

• Lead the design and development efforts for systems integrations with new software and coordinate efforts with other technical and Vendors leads on larger technical implementations.
• Work with project management team to manage integration architecture and specifications through the development lifecycle.
• Review and advise on technical requirements and specifications for the new software implementation, including the estimation of a clear and realistic timeline for deliverables.
• Write, design and maintain all technical documentation to serve as technical baseline for the software development and implementation, i.e. Technical Diagrams, Network Diagrams, Deployment Architecture Diagram.
• Manage the software developers deliverables quality against technical requirements.
• Support the IT Manager and Program Manager on managing, tracking, and forecasting of solution development, against project milestones and timeline, via Agile method.
• Work collaboratively with vendors technical team to support the software implementation, including communicating and explaining our systems architecture to facilitate decisions related to the design of efficient and logical solutions.
• Lead the product deliverables testing and validation of the user acceptance process, working with both users and technical teams to identify the UAT plan.
• Create a technical plan to implement different types of software testing throughout the implementation: smoke, sanity, platform testing, compliance tests, among others.
• Create a plan and strategy, using Agile, to fix technical issues and bugs, with minimum impact maximum et a, during pre-production phase and post-launch phase.
• Plan the architecture of the technical environments structure. Define the software compliance, including the tools needed to monitor internal systems, to comply with required standards and regulations.
• Have a sense of urgency, ability to trouble shoot complex problems is required, acting as escalation point to resolve major project related incidents and problems.
• Work in an Agile environment, preferably using Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Project management responsibilities relating to integration tasks, working with County and vendor resources, including planning and coordinating integration activities.
• Work collaboratively with various parties to evaluate software systems, identify technical requirements, design, and implement interfaces.
• Design and implement interfaces between software systems.
• Lead integration testing and validation activities and acceptance, working with both business customers and technical teams to identify and resolve issues.
  
  

Minimum Education And Experience Required

• Bachelors Degree
• Eight years of experience in software development including interface development or related tasks, are required.
• Additional related work experience in software development/implementation may substitute for the required college education on a year-for-year basis