Technical Lead

Job Title : Technical Lead

Job location : Los Angeles, CA (Onsite)

Duration : 12 month contract with possibility for extension

Job Responsibilities:

Ability to oversee end-to-end technical architecture for integrations supporting Procurement platforms, including Finance ERP systems, vendor master data, Single Sign-On (SSO), Identity Management (IDM), and document management systems.

Skilled in defining integration patterns, API standards, message structures, data transformation rules, and error-handling frameworks.

Skilled in developing architectural artifacts, including system diagrams, data flow maps, and integration frameworks.

Skilled in evaluating contractor-provided technical designs and ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture principles and security requirements.

Skilled in designing, developing, and optimizing APIs (REST, SOAP, and GraphQL where applicable) to support procurement workflows, vendor onboarding, catalogue synchronization, approvals, and spend management.

Ability to oversee and support integration layers, including Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), and API Gateway technologies.

Ability to ensure seamless data exchange with upstream and downstream systems, including ERP systems.

Skilled in establishing standards for API versioning, authentication, authorization, and monitoring.

Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-resolution skills related to complex integration issues, latency problems, security token failures, data mismatches, and workflow breakdowns.

Skilled in defining data mapping rules, master data synchronization schedules, and data validation logic.

Ability to establish and maintain data governance guidelines related to vendor master data, procurement categories, chart of accounts, and approval hierarchies.

Ability to conduct impact analyses for changes to data models, interfaces, and integration endpoints.

Skilled in applying and enforcing API security standards and protocols, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, SAML, and RBAC.

Ability to ensure system integrations comply with organizational security policies, auditing requirements, and applicable compliance standards.

Technical leadership and problem-resolution skills to support serving as a technical escalation point for implementation projects and production support cycles.

Ability to manage and coordinate vendor technical teams to ensure the timely and quality delivery of integration components.

Skilled in establishing and enforcing coding standards, integration testing protocols, and API performance benchmarks.

Ability to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for integration deployments.

Skilled in load testing, failover testing, and performance tuning of integration components.

Technical documentation skills, including the development of API specifications, data dictionaries, sequence diagrams, troubleshooting guides, and operational runbooks.

Training and knowledge transfer skills related to long-term system maintenance, current and target-state architecture, sequencing plans, architectural segments, reference models, and technology standards.

Experience Required :

This classification must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience aligning IT systems with organizational business processes. At least four (4) years of that experience must have been in a lead capacity.

8 years of hands-on experience in complex system integration and API engineering.

3 years of experience serving as a technical lead on large enterprise solution implementations, preferably involving procurement, finance, or ERP systems.

2 years of experience with RESTful API design, JSON/XML standards, OAuth 2.0, API gateways, and modern iPaaS/ESB platforms.

2 years of experience utilizing scripting and development languages such as Java, Python, C#, or Node.js.

2 years of experience integrating with major ERP systems and vendor management platforms.

3 years of experience supporting procurement workflows, including sourcing, requisition-to-purchase order, vendor onboarding, contracts, catalogues, and invoice processing.

2 years of experience with data governance, ETL/ELT practices, and integration monitoring tools.

2 years of experience implementing procurement platforms such as Coupa, Jaggaer, Ariba, Ivalua or similar solutions.

1 or more years of experience preparing technical documentation and communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.