Exostar is hiring an Integration Engineering Manager to serve as both a people leader and lead architect within our Professional Services team. This role is responsible for defining integration architecture standards, guiding solution design, and ensuring high-quality, scalable integrations between our SaaS platforms and customer enterprise systems.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the lead integration architect for Professional Services implementations.
- Define and govern integration architecture standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Review and approve solution designs for complex customer integrations.
- Ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability of integration solutions.
- Establish reusable frameworks, accelerators, and reference architectures to improve consistency and efficiency.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Integration Engineers and QA Engineers.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance on integration design, data transformation, and code-level implementation when needed.
- Oversee end-to-end integration delivery including design, build, test, validation, and go-live readiness.
- Align QA strategy with architectural standards to ensure solution quality and release confidence.
- Act as senior escalation point for complex technical and architectural challenges.
- Manage delivery KPIs including quality metrics, timelines, utilization, and customer satisfaction.
- Partner directly with customer IT and business stakeholders to design integration architectures aligned to O2C and P2P workflows.
- Support pre-sales engagements with architecture validation, scoping, and effort estimation.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to provide feedback from field implementations and influence roadmap priorities.
What We're Looking For
- Deep expertise in enterprise integration architecture, including REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven models, middleware, and file-based exchanges (SFTP, EDI).
- Strong experience integrating SaaS platforms with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Epicor, and Infor.
- Solid understanding of supply chain transaction flows within Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay processes.
- Strong experience with object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, or similar) and sound understanding of software design principles.
- Advanced SQL skills with the ability to design, query, optimize, and troubleshoot complex relational databases.
- Experience designing integrations in hybrid cloud and on-premise enterprise environments.
- Strong leadership capability with experience guiding both engineering and QA functions.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required.
- U.S. Citizenship or lawful permanent residency (Green Card holder) required due to customer and regulatory requirements.
Nice to Have
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Opus, or similar platforms) to accelerate design, coding, testing, and documentation.
- Experience with middleware or iPaaS platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services).
- Familiarity with authentication standards such as OAuth and SAML.
- Experience working within Aerospace & Defense or other complex B2B supply chain ecosystems.
- Knowledge of integration testing frameworks, automation strategies, and release management best practices.
- Experience supporting pre-sales architecture validation and solution scoping.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications.
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise systems integration, solutions architecture, or SaaS implementation.
- 3+ years of people leadership experience managing engineering and/or QA teams.
- Proven track record serving as a lead architect on complex, enterprise integration programs.
- Experience within Aerospace & Defense or similarly complex B2B supply chain environments preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to balance architectural rigor with delivery execution in a Professional Services model.
- Advanced degree or relevant architecture/cloud certifications preferred.
Technical Stack
- Integration: REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven models, middleware, SFTP, EDI
- ERP Systems: SAP, Oracle, Epicor, Infor
- Languages: Java, C#, SQL
- Tools: AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Opus), middleware/iPaaS platforms (MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services), OAuth, SAML
Team & Environment
You will be the people leader for a team of Integration and QA Engineers within the Professional Services organization.
Benefits & Compensation
- Employee development and internal promotion
- Training and educational assistance
- Fun, engaged workplace with social and community-building events
- Comprehensive benefits
- Flexible time off plans
Work Mode
This role offers a hybrid work mode and is based out of our offices in Herndon, VA or Cincinnati, OH.
Exostar is an Equal Opportunity Employment Employer. The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or genetic information.
