Senior Systems Integration Engineer
Parsons Corporation · Reston, VA · Yesterday
Quality Assurance$177k–$332k/yrFull-time
About the role
Pursue a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure, reliable integrations between a distributed platform and third-party systems using REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, secure file/data exchange, and device/peripheral interfaces
- Modernize legacy integrations into Java-based microservices running in a distributed platform architecture
- Engineer for resilience, observability, auditability, latency, and intermittent/low-bandwidth network conditions
- Integrate with government and commercial systems such as identity and verification services, traveler data platforms, biometric and document-capture peripherals, and access-control and gate systems
- Define interface contracts, schemas, versioning strategies, retry/idempotency behavior, and certification/test approaches
- Troubleshoot issues across application, data, messaging, and network layers
- Partner closely with software, cloud, network, QA, field engineering, analytics/observability, and security teams
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or systems integration
- Strong hands-on experience building Java-based distributed services
- Proven production experience with API integration and event-driven messaging
- Experience with one or more of the following: RabbitMQ, Kafka, JMS, AMQP, or similar messaging platforms
- MongoDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, or comparable data platforms AWS deployment and operations in production environments
- Strong understanding of integration concerns such as authentication/authorization, certificate-based security, schema evolution, error handling and retries, observability and supportability
- Experience modernizing legacy or monolithic integrations into service-oriented or microservices-based architectures
- Able to work effectively in a highly collaborative engineering environment with direct ownership of delivery outcomes
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with HashiCorp tooling, especially Consul, Nomad, and Vault, or with adjacent platforms whose skills transfer quickly
- Experience with AWS-native services and infrastructure automation
- Familiarity with ELK, Grafana, Kibana, Logstash, or other observability stacks
- Experience integrating biometric devices, document readers, cameras, license plate readers, or other field peripherals
- Experience with degraded, disconnected, or low bandwidth environments
Benefits
We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!
Pay
$176,900.00 - $332,400.00
Schedule
Flexible work schedules to fit your busy lifestyle!