Overview

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This role leads requirement discovery and analysis by engaging with business units and stakeholders to identify, clarify, and document integration and orchestration requirements, translating business and operational needs into actionable technical specifications, while managing stakeholder expectations by setting realistic delivery goals and aligning trade-offs between business priorities and technical feasibility. The role acts as a trusted advisor and technical liaison by presenting solutions to leadership and stakeholders.

Architect and implement enterprise integration frameworks that ensure seamless data and process flow between diverse systems, applying enterprise integration and orchestration patterns such as publish/subscribe, event sourcing, saga, request/reply, batch processing, hub-and-spoke, point-to-point, and community topic-based models. Design and deliver orchestration solutions that automate workflows across multiple platforms.

Lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise API management solutions by overseeing the full lifecycle including design, publication, versioning, access control, security, and monitoring, while ensuring the consistency, scalability, and interoperability of APIs such as REST, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, SOAP, and webhooks. Establish policies and best practices for API usage, security, and documentation across the organization.

Build integration and orchestration solutions using AWS services such as EventBridge, Step Functions, SNS/SQS, API Gateway, Lambda, Transfer Family, Glue, Kinesis, and DynamoDB Streams, while also designing and implementing monitoring and observability solutions to track performance, detect issues, and provide actionable insights using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, and related tools.

Define and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, or ArgoCD, applying containerization strategies, Infrastructure as Code, and security best practices with IAM policies, roles, and permissions, while working closely with DevOps teams to ensure reliable delivery and optimize cloud infrastructure.

Drive collaboration with other involved technical teams, ensuring alignment of work across multiple groups, and collaborate with business analysts, QA teams, and product managers to maintain integration consistency. Mentor engineering teams to establish best practices in integration and orchestration.

This role could be based in our Washington, DC or Oxford, UK office. The role follows a hybrid schedule, with onsite work two days per week as decided by the functional area. The balance of the week is open to remote work, with the option to be onsite as desired.

A Reasonable Rate Of Compensation For This Position is:

• For DC, between $145,000-$180,000 annually.
• For UK, between 80,000-105,000 GBP annually.

ACS currently provides the following benefits for this position: paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, paid holidays, health insurance, flexible spending account or health care savings account, dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, retirement benefits, short- and long-term disability, and 4-week work from anywhere; each benefit is subject to the terms of the applicable program. Additional benefits may apply based on skills, experience, and location.

Any actual offer of employment, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be made in the sole discretion of ACS. ACS reserves the right to amend or modify its employment benefits and compensation structure at any time.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Non-profit Organizations

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