Integration Engineer

Leidos • Washington DC, DC

1d • Remote

About The Position

Leidos seeks an experienced, hands-on Integration Engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Summit Advanced Tooling, Lakehouse, and Artificial Intelligence Services (ATLAS) program. This position is contingent upon contract award. The engineer designs, implements, documents, and maintains secure, supportable integrations between the Summit Data Platform, other VA analytics platforms, on-premises systems, cloud services, and external partners. Remote work within CONUS is permitted subject to VA approval and access requirements; Washington, DC metropolitan-area candidates are preferred. The role must accommodate Eastern Time collaboration, program travel, and occasional after-hours or weekend support for critical incidents or planned maintenance.

The engineer applies approved enterprise architecture and interoperability patterns to technical designs, interfaces, and implementation, working with the Cloud Data Architect, IT Solutions Architects, security teams, delivery teams, VA stakeholders, and external providers. The position focuses on hands-on integration delivery and troubleshooting; enterprise interoperability standards and architecture governance remain with the Cloud Data Architect and VA governance authorities. The engineer also provides technical guidance and peer reviews, supports architecture reviews and implementation planning, and assists with production incident escalation and service restoration.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field with 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise integration solutions spanning multiple systems and cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, web services, data exchange, network connectivity, routing, authentication and authorization, and secure inter-system communication.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting cloud-based integrations using at least one major cloud platform, including APIs, networking, identity management, data services, and hybrid connectivity.
• Understanding of enterprise data platforms, metadata, data lineage, access controls, and federated or distributed data-access approaches.
• Ability to produce architecture and interface specifications, network and data-flow diagrams, operational runbooks, and technical decision documentation.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and operational resilience, including Zero Trust principles, segmentation, encryption, monitoring, and incident escalation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to work independently and mentor engineers on integration implementation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required VA Public Trust suitability determination.

Nice To Haves

• Direct, hands-on experience supporting the VA Summit Data Platform, including its interfaces, technical dependencies, security boundaries, and operating environment; related VA enterprise data and analytics experience is also strongly considered.
• Hands-on Microsoft Azure integration experience, particularly with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Databricks.
• Familiarity with Starburst, Collibra, Immuta, or comparable enterprise data integration and governance technologies.
• Familiarity with VA Enterprise Cloud standards, VA architecture governance, PPSM, NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO processes, and federal system interconnection documentation.
• Experience with API management, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and Agile/DevSecOps delivery.
• Relevant Azure, cloud networking, security, or integration architecture certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and document integration solutions using approved patterns across Azure, hybrid and on-premises environments, third-party services, and VA platforms, including Summit, Advanced Health Insights, Customer Experience Insights, and legacy data sources.
• Develop interface specifications and API and data-exchange implementations, including routing, network boundaries, identity federation, authorization, and trust models; identify technical dependencies and failure modes.
• Apply approved VA Enterprise Cloud, Zero Trust, security, and architecture standards; maintain connection and network diagrams, technical documentation, and implementation records; flag exceptions for architecture governance review.
• Implement governed data interoperability through federated access, metadata and catalog synchronization, lineage, and consistent access policies across platforms in collaboration with data governance and engineering leads.
• Partner with cloud, network, security, DevSecOps, and application teams to implement, test, monitor, and troubleshoot integrations; establish runbooks, observability, and recovery procedures.
• Assess integration implementation alternatives for performance, resilience, cost, maintainability, and operational risk; support architecture reviews and implementation planning.
• Provide technical guidance, peer reviews, and integration troubleshooting across multidisciplinary teams; coordinate with VA stakeholders and external providers.
• Support production incident escalation and service restoration for complex integration failures, including occasional after-hours response when required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior