Integration Engineer

Leidos seeks an experienced Integration Engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Summit Advanced Tooling, Lakehouse, and Artificial Intelligence Services (ATLAS) program.

The role designs, implements, and maintains secure, supportable integrations between the Summit Data Platform, other VA analytics platforms, on-premises systems, cloud services, and external partners.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and document integration solutions using approved patterns across Azure, hybrid/on-premises environments, third-party services, and VA platforms.
• Develop interface specifications, API and data-exchange implementations, routing, network boundaries, identity federation, authorization, and trust models.
• Apply approved VA Enterprise Cloud, Zero Trust, security, and architecture standards.
• Implement governed data interoperability through federated access, metadata/catalog synchronization, lineage, and consistent access policies across platforms.
• Partner with cloud, network, security, DevSecOps, and application teams to implement, test, monitor, and troubleshoot integrations.
• Assess integration implementation alternatives for performance, resilience, cost, maintainability, and operational risk.
• Provide technical guidance, peer reviews, and integration troubleshooting across multidisciplinary teams.
• Support production incident escalation and service restoration for complex integration failures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field with 12+ years of relevant experience; or master's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise integration solutions.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, web services, data exchange, network connectivity, routing, authentication/authorization, and secure inter-system communication.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting cloud-based integrations using at least one major cloud platform.
• Understanding of enterprise data platforms, metadata, data lineage, access controls, and federated or distributed data-access approaches.
• Ability to produce architecture/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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct, hands-on experience supporting the VA Summit Data Platform.
• Hands-on Microsoft Azure integration experience, particularly with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Databricks.
• 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.