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

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