Forward Deployed Data Integration Engineer

APTEAN; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptean, based in Alpharetta, GA, is seeking a Data Integration Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade data integrations that connect enterprise systems and enable AI-driven workflows.

You will join ASCENT as part of the data integration team, collaborating with analysts to map data sources, define extraction techniques, and ensure reliable pipelines across ERP/CRM landscapes. Strong Python, SQL, and API skills are essential for success in this client-facing role.

Qualifications

• 410 years of experience integrating enterprise systems and extracting data.
• Strong proficiency in Python scripting and automation.
• Ability to write efficient SQL queries for data analysis and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with APIs, enterprise integrations, and systems of record such as ERP and CRM.
• Familiarity with AI-related integration patterns such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Responsibilities

• Partner with business analysts to understand customer data requirements and extraction cadence.
• Identify data sources across customer system landscapes and define appropriate extraction techniques.
• Build, operate, and support production-grade data pipelines for AI workflows.
• Develop extractors that populate the Aptean semantic layer, including ontology nodes and relationships.
• Troubleshoot data extraction, transformation, and integration issues and improve reliability.

Skills

Python scripting

SQL queries

APIs

Data integration

ETL pipelines

Job description

Position Title: Data Integration Engineer

Location: Atlanta GA USA Alpharetta, Georgia US

Location Details: Onsite

Experience Level: B

Country: US

Type: Employee Regular Full Time

Job Description

Overview

About the role

You will join ASCENT (AI Services for Continuous Enterprise Transformation) as a Data Integration Engineer, based in Alpharetta. You will design, build, and operate production-grade data integrations that access and update data across diverse customer systems and enable agentic AI workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business analysts to understand customer data requirements and extraction cadence.
• Identify data sources across customer system landscapes and define appropriate extraction techniques.
• Build, operate, and support production-grade data pipelines for AI workflows.
• Develop extractors that populate the Aptean semantic layer, including ontology nodes and relationships.
• Troubleshoot data extraction, transformation, and integration issues and improve reliability.

About you

You communicate integration designs, constraints, and status clearly to customers and internal stakeholders. You can work across diverse systems and quickly understand customer system landscapes. You have strong written and spoken English communication skills suited to client-facing work.

Qualifications

• 410 years of experience integrating enterprise systems and extracting data.
• Strong proficiency in Python scripting and automation.
• Ability to write efficient SQL queries for data analysis and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with APIs, enterprise integrations, and systems of record such as ERP and CRM.
• Familiarity with AI-related integration patterns such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).

To be ahead of the pack, you might have:

• Knowledge of business processes such as order to cash and procure to pay.
• Experience accessing and updating customer systems using API calls and SQL queries.
• Experience with development environments and enterprise integration tools.

What's in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean's purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean's compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.