Lead Automation Engineer

About Us

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower over 50,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU!

Location

Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.
Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Job Summary

This position provides advanced technical leadership and hands-on expertise in designing, developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise automation and integration solutions. This role serves as the senior technical lead for initiatives spanning business process automation, robotic process automation, API-based integrations, iPaaS, enterprise data integration, and AI-enabled automation. The position delivers secure, scalable, reusable solutions aligned with institutional modernization goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural and technical guidance on enterprise automation and integration strategies, platform direction, and solution design aligned with institutional goals.
• Lead the design, development, implementation, and operational support of enterprise automation and integration solutions across workflows, APIs, data platforms, and systems.
• Serve as the senior hands-on technical lead for complex initiatives, defining technical approaches, development standards, and solution quality.
• Design, build, and support business process automation, robotic process automation, and workflow orchestration using platforms such as Power Automate, UiPath, or similar tools.
• Design, develop, and maintain API-based integrations, connectors, and orchestration flows using iPaaS and middleware platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, SnapLogic, or Azure services.
• Develop and support integrations between enterprise applications, databases, cloud platforms, and on-premises systems using APIs, events, messaging, and file-based exchanges.
• Collaborate with data teams to integrate automation services with enterprise data platforms and analytics environments including Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Oracle, and SQL Server.
• Lead technical solutioning for automation and integration involving ERP, CRM, SIS, identity management, document systems, collaboration platforms, and related enterprise technologies.
• Translate business requirements and process inefficiencies into secure, scalable, supportable, and reusable automation and integration solutions.
• Establish and enforce reusable integration patterns, coding standards, documentation practices, and technical best practices for automation and integration delivery.
• Troubleshoot complex automation, orchestration, API, and integration issues and lead resolution efforts across platforms, teams, and vendors.
• Support platform performance, resiliency, security controls, lifecycle management, and compliance requirements for automation and integration services.

Required Qualifications

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education
• Other Required Qualifications: Current, valid and unrestricted driver's license
• Required Experience: Eight (8) years of experience in enterprise automation, systems integration, and/or related IT disciplines

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional Preferred Qualifications: Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert, Microsoft Azure Integration Services, UiPath Advanced RPA Developer, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, Boomi Certification
• Preferred Educational Qualifications: Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education.
• Preferred Experience: Experience in higher education IT environments supporting enterprise-wide platforms and services. Experience with AI-enabled automation including document processing, OCR, decisioning, process mining, or intelligent workflow orchestration. Experience designing and supporting integrations with Workday Finance, Workday HCM, and Workday Student.