Senior Integration Software Engineer

The Metropolitan Council is a regional government serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area through transportation, wastewater, housing, and other regional services. The Senior Integration Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains APIs and integration solutions across multiple platforms, while ensuring their security, performance, and availability. The role also provides technical guidance, collaborates with business and technology teams, and may lead integration development projects.

Responsibilities:

• Implement end-to-end API and Integration delivery, including requirements, design, development, documentation, testing, maintenance, and support
• Work with Microsoft Azure Tools to deploy code to the Azure cloud environment
• Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 or higher, Visual Studio Code, and other development tools for custom software development and maintenance
• Utilize GitHub for source control and GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines
• Use Azure DevOps Boards to document user stories and tasks and coordinate work
• Assist with the development, implementation, and distribution of standards and best practices for API and Integration development
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve integration performance and functionality issues
• Use Terraform to create and update Azure resources
• Partner with project managers to estimate effort, assign tasks, and track progress to meet timelines and realign project efforts when work is off-course or solutions are not technically feasible
• Conduct code reviews for quality, security, and adherence to development standards
• Develop and maintain unit tests for custom-built APIs and Integrations
• Ensure ongoing stability and performance of deployed APIs and Integrations
• Provide guidance and technical development support to Software Engineers if needed
• Stay current with industry trends, tools, and technologies to continuously improve application development practices
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset
• Document data movement, write requirements and technical documentation for integration solutions and user acceptance test plans
• May serve as technical lead on mid-size to large integration development projects

Requirements:

• Any of the following combinations of completed education (bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field) and professional experience designing, developing, supporting, and maintaining API's and other Integration solutions
• Master's degree and (3) years of experience
• Bachelor's degree and (5) years of experience
• Associate's degree and (7) years of experience
• High school diploma/GED and (9) years of experience
• Experience developing integration solutions using C# and .NET 8 and above, using the ASP. Net Minimal API framework, and Azure Functions
• Strong understanding of REST and SOAP-based APIs
• Experience with Integration Tools (Preferred: Microsoft Azure Integration Tools) to build integration solutions, including Azure Service Bus, Azure Logic Apps, Application Insights, and more
• Experience using GitHub Enterprise for source control and GitHub Actions for CI/CD Pipeline
• Experience using and managing APIs in APIM
• Ability to serve as a subject matter expert in the Secure Software Development Lifecycle
• Ability to gather and understand stakeholders' requirements, needs, and objectives to ensure solutions meet business expectations
• Experience writing integration functional and technical requirements and test documents
• Ability to examine and understand existing code efficiently
• Ability to work effectively with IT professionals, project managers, business partners and vendors
• The candidate's permanent residence must be in Minnesota or Wisconsin
• Experience using Postman for testing APIs
• Experience using Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols and/or Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Understanding the OWASP Top 10 security risks for APIs
• Designing, developing, and maintaining data integrations (data pipelines/ETL/ETL-extracting, transforming, and loading data) using various types of data sources and sinks
• Experience using Terraform to create Azure Resources
• Experience working with Azure Virtual Networks to connect cloud and on-premises resources
• Understanding of database design principles and experience writing SQL Server and Oracle-based queries
• Understanding of how to utilize multiple integration patterns to build solutions that best suit data movement requirements
• Experience working with Databricks or other Data Warehouses
• Understanding of GraphQL and gRPC