Senior Enterprise Integration Reliability Lead

Requirements:

• 10+ years of deep enterprise integration experience in large-scale, distributed environments.
• Hands-on mastery of Apache Camel, including route design, exception handling, and custom processors; Java and Spring Boot; Apache Kafka, including event-driven architecture, partition strategies, consumer lag, offset management, and DLQ/reprocessing; and Google Apigee, including gateway policies, routing, traffic management, and tracing.
• Experience with REST/JSON, SOAP/XML, and distributed integration patterns (EIP).
• Proven experience implementing distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry or APM tools, structured logging, correlation IDs, and metrics and alerting frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot live production outages, inspect network payloads, analyze stack traces, and modify configurations or code under pressure.
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to set architectural direction, mentor distributed team members, and conduct code and configuration reviews.
• Preferred: Experience supporting enterprise integrations in financial services, banking, or retail and wealth transaction processing.
• Preferred: Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation tools such as Azure DevOps and Git, and containerized or cloud environments such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Preferred: Familiarity integrating with platforms such as Salesforce or core processing systems.
• No degree is required.

Responsibilities:

• Lead hands-on troubleshooting of complex, multi-system production issues.
• Trace transactions and payloads across system layers, reproduce failures, analyze logs, code, and configurations, identify root causes, and implement or guide remediation.
• Reduce mean time to resolution and help prevent recurring incidents.
• Own enterprise-wide observability and traceability across source applications, Apigee, Apache Camel, Kafka, and downstream systems.
• Implement and maintain correlation IDs, distributed tracing, structured logging standards, system metrics, health dashboards, actionable alerts, Kafka offset and event tracking, and API trace analysis.
• Guide federated application teams by reviewing and optimizing Apache Camel routes, Kafka integrations, and API implementations.
• Design, review, and implement error handling, retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues, replay and reprocessing pipelines, idempotency patterns, timeouts, schema governance, and fault-tolerance practices.
• Establish integration best practices and validate them through working code, reusable pattern libraries, diagnostic tools, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with application development, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, security, and production support teams to improve transaction success rates, observability, and production stability.

Technologies:

• API
• Apigee
• Apache Camel
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Git
• Support
• JSON
• Java
• Kafka
• Network
• OpenTelemetry
• REST
• SOAP
• Salesforce
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• XML
• Architect

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We are seeking a hands-on Senior Enterprise Integration SME / Integration Reliability Lead to serve as the technical authority and reliability champion for our enterprise integration environment. This execution-focused, at-the-keyboard leadership role combines architecture and review across distributed application teams with direct work in code, configuration, and traces. The position is remote, contract-based, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and pays $75–$90 per hour. Randstad Digital welcomes applicants of all abilities and offers eligible employees medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance, short-term disability, and a 401(k) plan. We are an equal opportunity employer. The posting is open for 30 days. Massachusetts law prohibits requiring or administering lie detector tests as a condition of employment or continued employment.

last updated 44 week of 2026