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As Integration Platform Lead Developer, you will translate business requirements into secure, resilient integration architectures, build critical components, and establish reusable engineering standards adopted across teams. This senior technical individual contributor role extends beyond independent implementation to enterprise architecture influence, cross-team delivery leadership, and development of engineering capability. It is an engineering-led role with production accountability, not a dedicated production-support position. Deep hands-on expertise in both Boomi and Kafka is essential.\nKey Responsibilities\nSet Boomi and Kafka technical direction across multiple large projects. Align architecture and acceptance criteria with business needs and validate delivered solutions.\nRemain hands-on in designing, developing, reviewing, testing, and deploying complex API-based, application-to-application, file-based, B2B, and event-driven integrations; deliver reference implementations for the most demanding patterns.\nEstablish reusable Boomi components, mappings, API contracts, error-handling and recovery patterns, and runtime engineering standards; guide performance optimization and safe deployment practices.\nLead Kafka engineering on Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), covering topic and partition strategy, producer and consumer behavior, delivery semantics, Kafka Connect, schema evolution, access controls, capacity, cross-cluster replication, and recovery validation.\nDefine engineering quality gates and reusable automation for testing, performance validation, deployment, configuration, rollback, and operational readiness; reduce manual effort through scripting and AWS-based tooling.\nLead technical delivery across projects: coordinate resources and work allocation, review designs and code, mentor engineers, and manage priorities and deadlines. Resolve cross-team dependencies and adjust scope with business partners.\nDefine and review service KPIs, SLA/SLO performance, actionable observability, runbooks, and recovery procedures with service owners. Lead complex Tier-3 troubleshooting, connect availability and performance trends to customer impact, and drive prioritized root-cause corrective actions into engineering backlogs.\nWork independently within agreed authority, owning technical decisions affecting delivery, reliability, resources, and cost. Resolve ambiguous problems through analysis and innovation; recommend solutions to senior leadership and escalate material risks.\nShape modernization roadmaps through capacity forecasts, cost-of-ownership comparisons, risk analysis, industry trends, and vendor input. Develop prototype environments with business partners, evaluate alternatives, and recommend investments to IT and business leadership. Maintain architecture decisions and engineering documentation.\n Minimum Qualifications:\n• 7+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.OR\n9+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.\n*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.\nRequired Qualifications\n7+ years of IT-related work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 9+ years of IT-related work experience without a bachelor’s degree.\nDeep hands-on Boomi expertise spanning solution architecture, process design, connectors, data mapping and transformation, APIs, automated testing, deployment, performance optimization, and runtime administration, troubleshooting, and recovery.\nDeep hands-on Kafka engineering and production ownership, including partitioning, replication, consumer groups, offsets, delivery semantics, producer and consumer tuning, Kafka Connect, schema compatibility, access controls, capacity planning, and troubleshooting. Experience implementing cross-cluster replication or mirroring and validating recovery procedures is required.\nAbility to independently lead architecture decisions across complex integration and event-streaming workloads with little supervision; use advanced data analysis and sound judgment to resolve incomplete or conflicting information, develop innovative approaches where established patterns are insufficient, and balance security, availability, scalability, recovery, and cost.\nHands-on AWS experience with integration or streaming workloads and working knowledge of IAM, networking, encryption, and security controls. Amazon MSK experience is preferred; comparable managed Kafka experience is acceptable when combined with AWS proficiency and the ability to transfer that expertise to MSK.\nStrong scripting and automation capability using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or a comparable language; experience establishing repeatable delivery pipelines, automated integration/API tests, performance tests, and release quality gates.\nExperience defining actionable logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and service-level objectives; ability to lead complex troubleshooting, recovery planning, and root-cause remediation. Equivalent observability and testing tools are acceptable; specific product brands are not mandatory.\nTechnical leadership across multiple large projects, including work allocation, reviews, mentoring, standards, dependencies, and deadlines. Ability to resolve scope conflicts, agree business acceptance criteria, and communicate technical recommendations to engineers and senior leadership.\nExperience with capacity forecasting, cost-of-ownership analysis, and upgrade recommendations; ability to use service KPIs, SLA/SLO trends, and customer impact to prioritize improvements.\nExperience with incident, change, and release management, using Jira, ServiceNow, or equivalent tools; ability to balance delivery commitments with production readiness and sustainable operations.\nAbility to collaborate across a globally distributed team and participate in a defined Tier-3 on-call rotation, including weekday and weekend coverage.\nPreferred Qualifications\nA master’s degree in an IT-related field and 3+ years on Enterprise projects or programs are preferred. Experience in one or more of the following areas is helpful; expertise across all listed technologies is not expected.\nModernization and partner integration: EDI/RosettaNet, B2B partner onboarding, managed file transfer, or migrations from TIBCO BWCE, TIBCO B2B, Oracle SOA, IBM Sterling MFT, or Informatica Cloud.\nCloud platform and governance: AWS Glue Schema Registry, Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, AWS Well-Architected principles, modern authentication, Zero Trust patterns, API gateways such as Apigee, or Kafka governance tools such as Conduktor.\nAdjacent application and messaging engineering: Java/Spring Boot, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, Amazon MQ, RabbitMQ, or TIBCO EMS.\nDeveloper experience and AI enablement: reusable integration templates, self-service capabilities, developer portals, Boomi Agent Studio, agentic AI, or retrieval-augmented generation for integration and operational use cases.\nRelevant Boomi, AWS, Kubernetes, or Confluent certifications are helpful but not required.\nTeam and Operating Model\nBased in Cork, Ireland, collaborating with teams in San Diego, US, and Hyderabad, India. This hands-on technical-lead role has no people-management responsibility. Own integration architecture, implementation quality, reusable patterns, reviews, and operational readiness; coordinate infrastructure, security approvals, and shared platform changes with accountable teams. Engineering and modernization are primary, with shared weekday/weekend Tier-3 on-call. Work arrangement, time-zone overlap, rotation, coverage, and escalation details will be confirmed during hiring.\nModernization Scope\nMigrate suitable TIBCO BWCE and Oracle SOA workloads to Boomi, using APIs and Kafka-based events where appropriate.\nModernize EDI/RosettaNet integrations on TIBCO B2B through contemporary B2B patterns and managed partner onboarding.\nSupport modernization of IBM Sterling MFT workflows using automated file/event hybrid patterns and governance.\nSupport migration of suitable Informatica Cloud jobs to integration, event-driven, or extract-load-transform (ELT) patterns where appropriate.\nExpected Outcomes in the First 6 - 12 Months\nDevelop a prioritized technical roadmap and ownership boundaries with partner teams; document architecture decisions, dependencies, and key delivery and reliability risks.\nLead an agreed modernization workload from design through production readiness, with automated tests, deployment and rollback procedures, observability, and operational documentation.\nDeliver reusable Boomi and Kafka reference patterns and quality gates that can be adopted across workstreams.\nEstablish agreed service-level and recovery objectives for assigned services, validate relevant recovery procedures, and prioritize improvements using measured baselines.\nEstablish a repeatable design-review and knowledge-sharing cadence that strengthens technical consistency and team self-sufficiency.\nWhere You Will Be Working\nCork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.\nThere's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.\nA gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.\nWhat's on Offer\nApart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:\nSalary, stock and performance related bonus\nMaternity/Paternity Leave\nEmployee stock purchase scheme\nMatching pension scheme\nEducation Assistance\nRelocation and immigration support (if needed)\nLife, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance\nSubsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being\nBicycle purchase scheme\nEmployee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more\n*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail  or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nQualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.\nTo all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. 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