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Lead Software Engineer for Integration and Orchestration

American Chemical Society
United States, D.C., Washington
1155 16th St Nw (Show on map)
Oct 31, 2024
Description

About ACS:

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a globally recognized leader in disseminating scientific information. Our extensive publication division produces over 60 scholarly journals, including the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society, and the widely read weekly magazine Chemical & Engineering News. ACS is committed to advancing the field of chemistry through national meetings, regional conferences, and the comprehensive Chemical Abstracts Service.

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Software Architect/Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of enterprise integration, orchestration, and event-driven architecture solutions within our cloud infrastructure. This role demands expertise in cloud architecture (particularly AWS), API design and development, AsyncAPI and OpenAPI specifications, and experience with Event-driven architectures and frameworks. You will be responsible for building scalable, efficient solutions that enable seamless communication across systems, automate workflows, and integrate event-based systems. Your work will enhance our infrastructure's agility and reliability, playing a critical role in ACS's mission to advance scientific knowledge.

Key Responsibilities:



  • Design and Implement Enterprise Integration Solutions: Architect integration frameworks that connect disparate systems, ensuring smooth and reliable flow between applications and services.
  • Design and Implement Enterprise Orchestration Solutions: Develop and manage enterprise orchestration tools that automate and coordinate workflows, improving
    efficiency across platforms.
  • Event-driven Architecture: Architect and implement event-driven systems, ensuring real-time communication, scalability, and reliability across microservices and distributed systems.
  • API Design and Development: Lead the design, implementation, and management of robust APIs to support various business and operational needs, ensuring consistency and scalability.
  • AsyncAPI and OpenAPI: Design and develop APIs following AsyncAPI and OpenAPI specifications to ensure seamless communication and integration between services.
  • Collaborate with DevOps teams to define project requirements, support continuous integration/delivery.
  • Manage environments for dev, test, and production, ensuring configuration management best practices throughout the software lifecycle.
  • Define and manage CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and containerization strategies, optimizing for performance.
  • Collaborate with DevOps architect to build operation solution and optimize Cloud infrastructure.
  • Act as a technical liaison with stakeholders and present solutions to leadership.



The role can be based at the ACS Oxford office in the United Kingdom or at ACS headquarters in Washington, D.C. A reasonable rate of compensation per year is listed:

DC: $140,000 - $189,000

UK: To be converted appropriately

Qualifications
Behaviors
Detail Oriented - Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
Dedicated - Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Team Player - Works well as a member of a group
Enthusiastic - Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
Motivations
Flexibility - Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
Self-Starter - Inspired to perform without outside help
Goal Completion - Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
Education
Bachelors of Computer Science (required)
Experience
Certifications in AWS or cloud architecture. (preferred)
Knowledge of publisher IT environments.
(preferred)
10 years: Expertise in building enterprise-level integration solution. (required)
10 years: Expertise in designing, developing, and managing APIs, including AsyncAPIs, RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, GraphQL, and webhooks for integration purposes. (required)
5 - 10 years: Expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-level integration and orchestration solution in AWS using the services like EventBridge, Lambda, SNS/SQS, API Gateway, Transfer Family, AppFlow, Glue, Step Function, S3, Kinesis, MQ, DynamoDB Streams. (required)
5 years: Expertise in designing and implementing data integration workflows using AWS services such as AWS Glue, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis for both batch and real-time processing, along with monitoring and troubleshooting data pipelines using AWS CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. (required)
5 years: Experience in building event-driven solutions, preferably in AWS using the services like SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and Lambda, leveraging decoupled, scalable integrations. (required)
10 years: Experise in designing and setting up CI/CD pipelines with Github, AWS CodePipeline, ArgoCD or similar.
(required)
10 years: Experience in designing and implementing monitoring and observability for system logging analysis, performance tracking, issues identifying and alerting, etc. (required)
2 years: Experience in managing Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform for automating the deployment and management of resources and services. (required)
5 years: Experience in designing and implementing microservices architectures. (required)
10 years: Strong experience in architecting and building general software solutions and mastery in Java and/or Python programming language and Javascript is a plus. (required)
2 years: Strong understanding of AWS IAM roles, policies, and permissions for controlling access to integration and orchestration services securely. (required)
10 years: Experience in Agile methodologies (SCRUM or Kanban) with an emphasis on driving iterative development and continuous delivery of integration solutions. (required)
2 years: Ability to manage third-party integrations, including working with external vendors and partners to ensure successful data and system integration (required)
5 years: Strong collaboration with business analysts, QA, DevOps, product managers, and other engineering teams to ensure cohesive integration strategies across different systems. (required)
Licenses & Certifications
AWS CertDevOps Eng Pro (preferred)
AWS CertSolArchProf (preferred)
AWS CertDev-Assoc (preferred)
AWS Cert Big Data (preferred)
AWS Cert Cloud Prac (preferred)
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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