Engineering and Integration Services Manager (0532U) 43178 About Berkeley
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Departmental Overview
Berkeley IT believes in and fosters a workplace environment where people can bring their diverse skills, perspectives and experiences toward achieving our goals through a process of critical inquiry, discovery, innovation, while simultaneously committing to making positive contributions towards the betterment of our world.
In addition, members of the Berkeley IT community have created and endorse the following values for our organization to augment and amplify the campus principles:
We champion diversity.
We act with integrity.
We deliver.
We innovate.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging are more than just suggestions for us. They are the guiding principles underlying how we come together, develop leaders at all levels of the organization, and create an environment that unites us. We affirm the dignity of all individuals, call upon our leaders to address critical issues with integrity and intention, respect our differences as well as our commonalities, and strive to uphold a just community free from discrimination and hate.
Team Overview
Data Solutions resides within the broader Berkeley IT Campus Applications & Data unit, which ensures that the University's mission-critical applications and data are aligned, designed, integrated, and managed together. Data Solutions consists of Engineering & Integration Services, responsible for data integration and architectural considerations across campus applications, as well as the Data & Analytics team, responsible for campus-wide analytics and reporting. These are exciting areas that will experience growth and the need for innovation as the campus develops the governance, services and culture that support data as a critical campus asset.
Application Review Date
The minimum posting duration of this position is 14 calendar days. The department will not initiate the application review process prior to 10/7/2022
Responsibilities
UC Berkeley's Engineering and Integration Services (EIS) seeks a hands-on technical lead with supervisory responsibilities for a team of 6 data architects, developer/engineers, analysts and operations specialists. The team is charged with designing, implementing, and maintaining the APIs and integration infrastructure that allows campus data assets to flow among our major student, finance and HR applications, as well as ancillary consumer applications. EIS currently manages dozens of separate APIs in a custom implementation of AWS's API Gateway controlled by a developer portal written in Ruby on Rails. It provides API development and developer support in Java Spring Boot for most of those, as well as DevSecOps support using GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, AWS CodeControl, SaltStack, Python, and Unix. Many vital integrations also rely on ActiveMQ messaging. The technical lead collaborates with the team and broader Berkeley IT to define campus cross-system architecture and data integration strategy. The candidate should have solid skills in people management, operations, customer relations, code development/deployment, testing/quality assurance, process discipline, metadata management and documentation.
Required Qualifications
Broad knowledge of key architecture domains (portal, application, data, infrastructure, integration/middleware, and security)
Understanding of core technologies, such as open standards, database, and integration technologies
Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable big data' stores.
Ability to bring order to ambiguous situations; must be able to document issues and requirements, determine root causes, and develop solutions through concrete analysis and insights.
Knowledge of other related areas of IT. Ability to apply department processes and procedures to work.
Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions. Expertise relating to the design and development of software across the organization.
Enterprise-level understanding of and experience with key modeling and description languages used to map highly complex business processes to architectural components, develop common, large-scale data resource architectures, and create reference frameworks.
Significant experience with the integration of highly complex, diverse, internally and externally developed implementations of business functions to build enterprise-class, scalable systems.
Should be knowledgeable about data quality and governance issues and requirements.
Experience with metadata management and tools.
Welcomes differing skills, outlooks, and experiences of others working toward shared goals.
Self-motivated and works independently and as part of a team. Demonstrates problem solving skills. Able to learn effectively and meet deadlines.
The ability to collaborate with coworkers and staff to create a high-quality results-driven, team-oriented environment.
Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external groups.
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with executive-level management on a regular basis.
Excellent interviewing and listening skills.
Good negotiation and influencing skills.
Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical personnel at various levels in the organization.
Strong facilitation, organization and problem solving skills.
Demonstrated commitment to the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice.
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated facility with *nix operating systems and command line utilities
Demonstrated experience with object oriented languages (Java with Spring and Python preferred)
Demonstrated experience with a web application framework (Ruby on Rails preferred)
Demonstrated experience with a software configuration management platform (SaltStack preferred)
Working knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and their implementation in Apache Camel and ActiveMQ
Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools (GitHub and Jenkins preferred)
Experience with AWS cloud services: CloudFront, Virtual Private Cloud, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Compute Cloud, API Gateway, ElastiCache/Redis, CodeCommit
Experience with containerization and containerization orchestration
Knowledge of Oracle/PeopleSoft ERPs, especially their common data structures and Integration Broker
Salary & Benefits
This position is exempt, monthly paid position. Annual pay for this role is commensurate with experience within the range of 124,500 to 178,900. For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit:
https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html