The Director, Integration Engineering provides critical direction for the strategic management of enterprise-level application integrations. This role serves as a member of the IT leadership team and helps lead the definition and development of enterprise-level technologies and services that are used to integrate API applications with client and other third-party applications to deliver solutions for our clients.

Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requires extensive interaction with customers and third-party technology partners, as well as internal management of software application development.
• Responsible for developing solution architectures, creating and owning implementations, and driving API technology deployments. This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role.
• Oversee enterprise application development activities and provide strategic vision and leadership.
• Initiate and foster business partnerships across the organization that increase efficiency and effectiveness; balance business partner needs with API priorities, business strategies, and objectives.
• Cultivate an environment of continuous improvement, ensuring the highest levels of stability and performance for enterprise applications.
• Develop and use standardized approaches and frameworks for integration for both near-real time and batch data.
• Stay abreast of new vulnerabilities and use knowledge in security to protect applications and data.
• Leverage SaaS and PaaS services.
• Incorporate critical application improvements into release cycles to enhance production stability.
• Follow industry-standard development and deployment processes (SDLC, DevOps, version control).

Required Skills, Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree preferred, and 7+ years of related experience to include software technology managerial experience for complex applications.
• Prior experience with leading the implementation and customization of large-scale, mission critical applications with real-time data integrations.
• Strong depth of experience in working with client technology teams to design optimized integrations between their systems and API systems.
• Background in hands-on software development using Java technologies, as well as Apache Tomcat, Weblogic & TomEE.
• Experience using and implementing SOAP/REST based web services using XML/JSON.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies, cloud deployment tools and container orchestration.
• Strong background and experience with airline and travel applications and standards.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a broad variety of constituents including business development, product and program management.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
Full time, Monday through Friday, normal core business hours and as needed on nights and weekends unless otherwise specified.
Supervisory Responsibility
yes

Travel
Minimal

Compensation
Good faith annual salary range for this position is 130,000 - 150,000 CAD and is commensurate with experience.

Who We Are

API is the global leader for crew accommodation solutions, and we are changing the way businesses manage travel. Our technology platform streamlines the entire crew planning process, making day-to-day operations more efficient and elevating the crew layover experience. API's proprietary technology, mobile solutions and our experienced team are positioned to offer our clients a complete, end-to-end platform that integrates seamlessly into their process. We are looking for dynamic, creative, and tech savvy individuals to join our team. If you are passionate about hard work, providing impeccable service, technology, and solutions to our clients then API may be a great fit for you!

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time according to business needs.

Work Environment

This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

AAP/EEO Statement

Accommodations Plus International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.