Senior Systems Integration Engineer

POSITION: Sr. System Integration Engineer

REPORTS TO: Director, Product Development

JOB OBJECTIVES:
We are searching for a motivated engineer with solid experience in the area of system software and hardware integration to lead our System Integration activities. The candidate must have strong integration analytical and troubleshooting skills to understand system interfaces and be able to quickly analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve system interoperability problems. The System Integration Engineer will focus on connectid?s service and product integration and launch activities. The candidate will work closely with our partner and vendor software, hardware, integration and test teams to solve technical challenges in support of service and product launch objectives. In this role, you will plan and design system integration test plans for a new consumer service initiative and support the integration of new software and product releases.

This is a great opportunity for someone with previous integration experience on large, distributed service-oriented systems.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
? Develop System Integration test plans.
? Develop and execute System integration test cases and procedures and report results.
? Define test environment configurations.
? Plan and conduct end-to-end System Integration and Performance testing using established engineering standards and practices along with industry tools.
? Integrate and troubleshoot complex Service and Product architecture.
? Support System Integration and Service Launch troubleshooting activities.

Experience:
? Experience with integration of large distributed systems.
? Knowledge and working experience with Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), SQL, HTML, HTTP/XML, Network Protocols, Wireless Protocols, Multimedia Content, GIS, JAVA (J2ME/J2EE), UNIX, Oracle, Web Servers and Application servers.
? Experience testing distributed technologies, preferably client/server and web-based software.
? Practical experience integrating hardware and software components in an ISP/ASP environment or similar multi-component application and/or wireless network environment.
? Experience with wireless service integration is a strong plus.
? Regression test suite experience.
? Experience with performance testing.
? Experience working in a complex system development environment.
? Extensive experience in bringing up a large scale system.
? Demonstrated ability to analyze and isolate complex system level problems.
? Significant experience working at the system level HW and SW.
? Demonstrated teamwork and flexibility in previous work assignments.
? Previous experience in a startup or post-startup or small company environment is a strong plus.

Qualifications:
? B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field is strongly preferred.
? 5-10 years experience in System software and hardware integration and troubleshooting.
? 5 years of relevant experience in integration of application or wireless services and/or products.
? Ability to effectively interface with internal staff, partners, and vendors.
? Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must.
? Creative thinker.