Systems Integration Engineer
Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your role and responsibilities
Integration/REACT Developer Lead, supports workflow orchestration. Develops and implements solutions integrating applications across the enterprise or its units/departments. Evaluates existing components or systems to determine integration requirements and to ensure final solutions meet organizational needs. Integrate diverse systems, networks, and servers to achieve overall aims. Troubleshoot and debug system issues to increase performance and quality of data. Document and create visual representations of systems and their inputs and out. Optimize maintenance and deployments to ensure integrated functioning. Partner with delivery teams to proactively ensure system integration, verification, and validation. Provides recommendations with respect to requirements management activities; Generates reviews, revises, updates, and maintains configuration. Assists development, quality assurance, and engineering. Functions as the technical liaison with change control processes and authority. Collaborates with engineers, development, users, and management to coordinate changes. Identifies model elements and documentation required for systems design, development, test launch, and operation. Defines and implements the applicable level of configuration management for configuration items. Ensures traceability of the design by linking and/ or delinking requirements across multiple artifacts. Prepares configuration management activity / status reports and metrics for project meetings and reviews. Audits configuration items to verify conformance with specifications, drawings, and interface control documents. Analyzes impacts to systems performance, sustainment, and supportability of the systems during all stages of the acquisition life cycle. Plans, prepares, and executes configuration management activities and products in support of required audits and milestone events
Required education 
 
 High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education 
 
 Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field
 - 16+ years' experience, including REACT
 - Agentic AI
 - Experience working in agile environment
 - Ability to support the integration of APIs and troubleshoot integration points as needed
 - Experience in creating development requirements for integrations
 - Ability to facilitate technical aspects of integration with client
 - Familiarity with cognitive, automation, and related emerging technologies and techniques
 - Proactively identify roadblocks
 
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience working in aviation/with the FAA
 - Experience supporting Federal Clients
 - ATOM experience preferred
 - Familiarity with integrating APIs (i.e., REST, SOAP)
 - Program/Project General knowledge and experience with leading automation software projects
 
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
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The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
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