Senior Systems Integrations Engineer

HYBRID EMPLOYEE: Reports to the institution in Tampa, FL. Can work remotely 1 to 2 days a week.

HOURS: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

PRIMARY PURPOSE:

The Senior Systems Integrations Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable system integrations across enterprise platforms. This role combines deep expertise in application integration and DevOps practices, ensuring efficient deployment pipelines, seamless data exchange, and system stability. In addition to engineering responsibilities, this position supports team collaboration, mentors developers, and contributes to the continuous improvement of integration and delivery strategies.

ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY:

Located in the vibrant and diverse Tampa Bay region of Florida’s gulf coast, the University of South Florida (USF) is a Preeminent State Research University with campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee. Rated as one of the top places to live in the U.S., Tampa Bay offers a high quality of life, year-round sunshine, and easy access to top-rated entertainment. USF is one of the nation’s largest public universities, serving more than 50,000 students with an annual budget of $1.8 billon. Over the past five years, USF has been the fastest-rising university in the nation, public or private, on the U.S. News and World Report's list of best universities, which it ranks as the 44th best public university in America.

USF is proud to be an innovating partner within the Tampa Bay region, listed by Forbes as the top emerging tech city in the country.

USF Information Technology (USF IT) provides technology services and support for the University of South Florida. The IT team, led by the Vice President and CIO, provides the following services: Administrative Services, Client Support, Communication Services, Teaching and Learning, Analytics and Reporting, Mobile and Web Services, Consulting Services, Cybersecurity Service and Research Technologies. For more information, please visit:Information Technology | University of South Florida (usf.edu).

USF offers GREAT BENEFITS to full time employees!!

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Vacation Days
• Paid Sick Days
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Various Retirement Options, including 401K employer match
• Tuition Assistance (available for yourself, spouse, partner or dependent)

For more information about your total compensation package and other USF benefits, please visit: Work at USF

PRIMARY JOB DUTIES:

• 30% Design and Development: Develops and maintains secure, scalable integrations between enterprise systems, internal applications, and third-party services. Designs APIs and service-oriented architectures that align with best practices and business needs. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into efficient, maintainable technical solutions. Leads technical design efforts for projects involving significant integration or infrastructure components, keeping in mind risk and cost components. Maintain knowledge of storage, compute, and network components as pertains to integrations.
• 25% DevOps and Deployment Automation: Implements and manages CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable software delivery. Works closely with infrastructure and operations teams to ensure alignment on deployment practices and environment configuration. Develops and maintains scripts and infrastructure-as-code for automated provisioning, monitoring, and deployment. Integrates automated testing, security scanning, and observability tools into the release process.
• 20% Integration Architecture and Monitoring: Serves as a subject matter expert on application and data integrations, middleware platforms, and message-based systems. Monitors the performance and health of integrations, proactively identifying and addressing reliability, efficiency, and scalability concerns. Implements logging, alerting, and telemetry to support visibility and troubleshooting of integration and deployment issues.
• 15% Technical Guidance and Team Collaboration: Provides hands-on mentoring to developers in integration patterns, CI/CD practices, and modern deployment approaches. Conducts code reviews and technical consultations to ensure consistency, quality, and adherence to architectural standards.

  Supports the team lead in coordinating technical tasks, backlog refinement, and sprint planning activities. Collaborates with other senior developers, peers, and architects to align solutions with enterprise direction. Provides guidance to build initial project documents related to platform enhancement (concept proposals and LBCs).

• 5% Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Produces and maintains high-quality technical documentation for systems, integrations, and DevOps processes. Establishes standards for documenting deployment procedures, system dependencies, and operational runbooks. Leads internal workshops or training sessions on DevOps tools, best practices, and integration frameworks.
• 5% Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Stays current with emerging tools, frameworks, and best practices in application integration and DevOps. Identifies opportunities to improve development workflows, deployment pipelines, and operational processes. Pilots new technologies and tools to evaluate their effectiveness and suitability for the team’s needs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in Information technology, engineering or related.

Five (5) years in any occupation with experience in systems integrations.

Five (5) years in any occupation with experience in systems integrations must include: Educational or administrative systems in higher education environments (Student Information Systems, Learning Management Systems, or ERP systems); Designing and implementing RESTful APIs, microservices architectures, and enterprise integration solutions; Cloud-based integration solutions using Azure Logic Apps and Azure Function Apps; Azure API Management for managing enterprise APIs; CI/CD deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, Git version control, and automated testing frameworks; Change Data Capture (CDC) technologies, batch processing, and file-based integration patterns; Job scheduling and workflow automation; Database development and stored procedures using Oracle PL/SQL and SQL Server; and Integration patterns including message queuing, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and real-time data synchronization.

ALTERNATE EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Information technology, engineering or related and three (3) years in any occupation with experience in systems integrations. Must have skills listed above.

Conditional upon meeting all employment eligibility requirements in the U.S.

SOFT SKILLS:

IT CORE COMPETENCIES

• Growth Mindset: Takes ownership of personal growth and embraces the concept that intelligence and talent can be developed through continuous learning. Willing to take on new challenges, and views failure as an opportunity to grow.
• Communication: Comfortable using a broad range of communication styles, and chooses appropriate, effective ways to communicate. Adapts communication style depending on the audience and situation. Listens and asks questions to develop a better understanding.
• Collaboration: Collaborates with others in the pursuit of common missions, visions, values and goals. Fosters a sense of community within and across teams, building on mutual respect, trust, and drawing on the strengths of others.
• Client Obsession: Client focused when creating solutions or solving problems, believing that everything we do is to earn and keep our clients’ trust.
• Ownership: Takes responsibility, accountability and proactively focuses on areas they can directly influence. Understands their role within the team and recognizes that they share the team’s successes and failures.
• Outcome Driven: Focuses on desired results, business outcomes, and how to achieve them. Takes appropriate actions to ensure commitments are met and results achieved.