Lead Integration Engineer

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Lead Integration Engineer with a strong background in enterprise integration design. You will lead the design, governance, and implementation of integration solutions across applications, cloud platforms, and external partners.

The role emphasizes architecture standards, reusable patterns, security, and operational excellence. Requires extensive experience and strong collaboration with architecture, security, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of practical web and application development experience.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions across systems and platforms.
• Knowledge of integration patterns (API-based, event-driven, messaging, orchestration).
• Experience with middleware or API management and service bus tech.
• Strong focus on reliability, security, and operational supportability.
• Experience leading integration strategy and standards across large organizations.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of enterprise integration solutions across internal and external partners.
• Define integration architecture standards and reusable design patterns.
• Evaluate requirements and recommend integration approaches aligned with security and standards.
• Provide technical leadership across solution lifecycle including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Establish governance, documentation, and monitoring for integrations.
• Ensure secure, reliable integration and supportability across platforms.
• Mentor engineers and drive adoption of integration standards across teams.
• Conduct architecture and code reviews to ensure quality.

Skills

Enterprise integration

API-based architecture

Event-driven design

Middleware / ESB

Security & compliance

Mentoring engineers

Architecture reviews

CI/CD / automation

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

API Management

Service Bus

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Job description

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world? Watch Our Story: https://www.hdrinc.com/our-story Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

The Lead Integration Engineer provides technical leadership for the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise integration solutions that enable secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity across business applications, platforms, data systems, and external partners.

This role is responsible for establishing integration standards, promoting reusable solution patterns, and ensuring integration services are designed for performance, maintainability, security, and operational excellence. The Lead Integration Engineer collaborates closely with application, architecture, security, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver solutions that support organizational objectives and technology strategy.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise integration solutions across internal systems, cloud platforms, third-party applications, and external partners.
• Define and promote integration architecture standards, best practices, and reusable design patterns that improve consistency, scalability, maintainability, and supportability.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements and recommend integration approaches that align with organizational standards, security requirements, and operational objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and design oversight for complex integration initiatives throughout the solution lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Establish and maintain standards for integration governance, documentation, lifecycle management, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Ensure integration solutions are designed and implemented in accordance with enterprise security, privacy, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, data, and application teams to establish secure, reliable, and supportable integration capabilities.
• Drive continuous improvement of integration practices, including monitoring, observability, incident response, troubleshooting, and operational support processes.
• Conduct architecture, solution, and code reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and quality expectations.
• Develop reusable integration frameworks, templates, and shared components that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
• Promote adoption of enterprise integration standards and best practices across technology teams and stakeholder groups.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on integration architecture, engineering practices, and solution design.
• Serve as a key technical leader responsible for advancing enterprise integration strategy, standards, and implementation practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience serving in a technical leadership, lead engineer, or senior engineering capacity.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions across multiple systems, applications, platforms, and business domains.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration architecture patterns, including API-based, event-driven, messaging, orchestration, and data exchange approaches.
• Experience with application integration, middleware, API management, service bus technologies, or related integration platforms.
• Experience designing solutions that emphasize reliability, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational supportability.
• Experience with systems interoperability, data transformation, interface design, and integration troubleshooting.
• Understanding of security concepts including authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, and data protection.
• Experience participating in architecture reviews, technical standards development, or design governance processes.
• Experience leading integration strategy, engineering standards, or enterprise integration practices across a large or complex organization.
• Experience supporting integrations involving enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, data platforms, and external business partners.
• Experience with CI/CD, automation, automated testing, monitoring, observability, and operational support practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical design efforts across multiple initiatives.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 6 years practical web & application development experience
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Industry: IT

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Regular

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.

We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.