Staff Integration Engineer- TechOps

Company: 860 GapTech India
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Location: Hyderabad
Job Description:

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer – Data Integration with 7+ years of experience to provide architectural leadership while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day technical and operational activities. This role owns the stability, performance, and evolution of enterprise integration platforms across messaging, streaming, batch, ETL, and EDI systems.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilites:

  • Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture and reference patterns.
  • Drive modernization of integrations to event-driven and streaming-based designs.
  • Decide platform usage patterns for Kafka vs MQ vs RabbitMQ based on workload.
  • Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance across integration systems.
  • Govern schema evolution, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies.
  • Review, design, and approve integration flows, message schemas, and data contracts.
  • Actively participate in production monitoring for Kafka, MQ, RabbitMQ, ETL, and batch jobs.
  • Perform daily health checks on integration platforms (throughput, lag, queue depth, failures).
  • Lead triage and resolution of production issues, including Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents.
  • Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive permanent fixes and preventive actions.
  • Review and optimize Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, MQ queues, and exchanges.
  • Ensure batch and ETL jobs meet performance SLAs and data accuracy requirements.
  • Oversee EDI transaction flows, partner onboarding, and issue resolution.
  • Validate deployments, configuration changes, and releases to integration platforms.
  • Enforce operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call readiness for integration systems.
  • Technical Skills

  • Provide hands-on guidance and troubleshooting for complex integration implementations.
  • Review critical code changes, ETL logic, batch frameworks, and messaging configurations.
  • Lead design and technical reviews for high-impact integration initiatives.
  • Guide teams on performance tuning, retry mechanisms, idempotency, and error handling
  • Define monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for integration pipelines.
  • Ensure integration platforms comply with security, audit, and data governance policies.
  • Partner with SRE and Infra teams to improve resilience, DR, and capacity planning.
  • Drive automation for operational tasks and repetitive manual activities.
  • Behavioural Competencies

  • Mentor senior and staff engineers on integration best practices.
  • Support product and business teams by translating requirements into operationally sound solutions.
  • Act as escalation point for complex technical and operational issues.
  • Influence roadmap decisions based on operational insights and production realities

    Who You Are

  • 7+ years of experience in enterprise integration, middleware, or data engineering.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in:Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQBatch processing and ETL frameworksEDI integrations
  • Proven experience operating high-volume, mission-critical integration platforms.
  • Strong understanding of event-driven systems, asynchronous messaging, and data consistency.
  • Demonstrated experience handling production operations at scale.
  • Posted: February 20th, 2026