What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Data Integration Engineer position at Aptean?
Overview
About the role
You will join ASCENT (AI Services for Continuous Enterprise Transformation) as a Forward Deployed Data Integration Engineer, based in Alpharetta. You will design, build, and operate production-grade data integrations that access and update data across diverse customer systems and enable agentic AI workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business analysts to understand customer data requirements and extraction cadence.
- Identify data sources across customer system landscapes and define appropriate extraction techniques.
- Build, operate, and support production-grade data pipelines for AI workflows.
- Develop extractors that populate the Aptean semantic layer, including ontology nodes and relationships.
- Troubleshoot data extraction, transformation, and integration issues and improve reliability.
About you
You communicate integration designs, constraints, and status clearly to customers and internal stakeholders. You can work across diverse systems and quickly understand customer system landscapes. You have strong written and spoken English communication skills suited to client-facing work.
Qualifications
- 4–10 years of experience integrating enterprise systems and extracting data.
- Strong proficiency in Python scripting and automation.
- Ability to write efficient SQL queries for data analysis and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with APIs, enterprise integrations, and systems of record such as ERP and CRM.
- Familiarity with AI-related integration patterns such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).
To be ahead of the pack, you might have:
- Knowledge of business processes such as order to cash and procure to pay.
- Experience accessing and updating customer systems using API calls and SQL queries.
- Experience with development environments and enterprise integration tools.
What's in it for you?
Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.
About Aptean
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean's purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean's compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.
"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." – TVN Reddy
Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.