Ascend Analytics is hiring a
Senior Integration Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Integration Engineer at Ascend Analytics, a company specializing in climate technology software and services. The role involves ensuring smooth integration of software with external systems, providing exceptional client support during onboarding, and leading testing before go-live. The position is remote within the U.S. for well-qualified candidates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years experience in implementing third-party integrations and/or as a technical sales resource for a software product
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Extensive experience with data structures and API schemas, including an understanding of API design philosophies and patterns including common communication protocols (SOAP, REST) and data formats (JSON, XML)
• Understanding of security requirements of integration work
• Tenacity to navigate ambiguity and gather clear requirements from third-parties
• Ability to flexibly work on multiple workstreams in parallel based on sometimes tight and shifting client timelines
• Familiarity with project management to stay organized and manage, track, and communicate progress internally and externally

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients and third-party engineers alongside Ascend analysts, customer success, and engineers to ensure proper hand-off from sales to implementation
• Scope, design, develop, and implement integrations with third-party solutions and data providers
• Troubleshoot issues and evaluate new requirements as they arise, proposing effective solutions and best practices
• Develop a common framework for integrating third-party software and regularly execute a comprehensive test plan for integrations that use this framework
• Drive internal API, alerting, and QA design and development to improve efficiency, efficacy, stability, and risk management associated with third-party integrations
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of implemented solutions, configurations, and troubleshooting procedures
• Partner with the customer success team to project-manage integration work and help maintain tracking of implementation progress and status for communication to customers
• Participate as primary technical support for platform as part of teams’ weekly support rotations
• Own deployment of individual new releases as part of team’s rotation for managing new releases

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with SCADA systems
• Familiarity with Azure environments and Microsoft DevOps
• Background in energy and/or electricity markets

Benefits

• Flexible work hours in a relaxed environment
• Opportunities for advancement
• Excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan