Senior IT Integration Engineer

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you're looking for.

Position Summary

This Senior IT Integration Engineer role is pivotal in ensuring seamless data flow and integration within our organization, making it a critical position for our ongoing success. If you have a proven track record in integrating complex systems and are passionate about working with cutting-edge technologies like Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) and Kafka, we encourage you to apply and be a part of our dynamic IT team.

We are seeking a highly skilled and an experienced Integration Engineer to join our Integration Platform Engineering team and play a crucial role in designing, configuring, deploying, and maintaining integration solutions in our IICS and/or Kafka platform. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in integration technologies, AWS cloud technologies, data streaming, and data transformation, and be able to work collaboratively to meet the organization's integration needs.

Essential Responsibilities

• Integration Solution Design: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand integration requirements and design scalable and efficient integration solutions using Informatica IICS and Kafka.
• Platform Implementation: Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and manage Informatica IICS and Kafka platforms to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
• Data Integration: Develop, test, and maintain integration workflows and data pipelines, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across the organization.
• Real-Time Data Streaming: Experience with real-time data streaming pipelines using Kafka for high-speed data ingestion and processing is a plus but not required.
• Data Transformation: Implement data transformation processes, including data cleansing, enrichment, and normalization, to ensure data quality and consistency.
• Monitoring and Optimization: Monitor the performance of integration solutions, identify bottlenecks, and optimize processes for maximum efficiency and reliability.
• Error Handling and Troubleshooting: Implement error handling mechanisms and troubleshoot integration issues to minimize downtime and data loss
• Solution Delivery: Lead and support solution lifecycle technical activities. Ensure solutions are designed for great user experience and operational performance. Lead design, ensuring Enterprise Architecture, Security, Operations and Compliance aspects are continuously integrated into solutions. Provide input to cost and schedule estimation. Responsible for overall integrity of system design and operation. Oversee vendor activities.
• Relationship Management: Conduct peer reviews and approve system changes and technical solution design. Coach and mentor less experience team members. Partner cross-organizationally to drive minimal costs on optimal solutions. Provide in-depth technical information to stakeholders as needed.
• Strategy & Planning: Innovate through usage of industry emerging capabilities and evolving customer needs. Provide input to strategic roadmap and technical dependencies.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Continuously stay current on, and apply, technical industry knowledge pertaining to the respective domain
• Operations: Review solution performance, and continually assess health of systems. Track and drive awareness to operational and technical debt risks. Provide escalated support to incident and problem management. Utilize analytics to improve availability, reliability, efficiency and capacity. Oversee vendor activities.
• Minimum Requirements

• Ten years of related functional experience
• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.
• Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill set, and able to translate between technical and non-technical concepts.
• Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results
• Expertise managing the lifecycle of technical solutions Deep Subject Matter Expertise within the respective system domain products, platforms, processes and architecture.
• Broad and deep knowledge of technology architecture, infrastructure, network, security and software principles and models
• Experience working in partnership with internal and external vendors.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Extensive knowledge of future technology trends within area of expertise.
• Demonstrated leadership on technical aspects of large scale projects.
• Experience coaching other developers in system deployment or operational troubleshooting.
• Experience with delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum) and operational models (ITIL)
• Experience and understanding of core IT Service Management functions, such as Change Management and Incident Management

Highly Preferred

• Proficiency in Informatica IICS and/or Kafka platform, including configuration, administration, and development. Other technical skills: Terraform, Python, Ansible, AWS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, SQL
• Strong knowledge of data integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, and data streaming.
• Knowledge of software development and scripting languages is a plus (e.g., Python, Java).

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If you're ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at [email protected].

Non-Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $103,000.00 to $146,332.33 per year

This position may also be eligible for the following benefits and/or pay components: Pay - Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, Health Care Reimbursement Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Personal holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO) (full-time employees only), Parental Leave

Pay and benefit packages may vary based on position. Some employees are under collective bargaining agreements, which determine the benefits they will receive. If the information conflicts with the terms of the written plan documents governing the plan, the plan document will control. Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

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