Integration Engineer

Integration EngineerKORE1, a nationwide provider of staffing and recruiting solutions, has an immediate opening for Integration Engineer in Ventura County, Ca. This role is responsible for integrating vendor applications and automating workflows across the city's various applications and services, ensuring smooth data exchange between systems. You will work closely with business stakeholders, IT leadership, and third-party vendors to build scalable, secure, and efficient integration solutions. The role is essential in bridging gaps between vendor solutions, legacy systems, and a mixture of on-prem and cloud-based services to improve operational efficiency across public safety, utilities, and administrative departments. Therefore, the ideal candidate will have strong API integration experience, an automation-first mindset, and the ability to work with vendors to ensure secure, scalable, and efficient data exchanges.Key Responsibilities:Work closely with business stakeholders and other developers to gather, document, and analyze integration needs across departments.Ensure seamless integration between legacy systems and new applications via middleware, API gateways, or ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, PHP, and other relevant technologies.Develop ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data between different systems and databases.Ensure integrations comply with CJIS and other government regulations to protect sensitive public data.Architect, develop, and maintain API integrations between city systems, vendor applications, and legacy databases.Build custom solutions to facilitate secure data transfer between various departments and teams within the city's agencies.Translate business needs into technical integration workflows, APIs, and data pipelines.Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance and scalability, identifying and addressing bottlenecks and performance issues.Implement security best practices to protect against common web application vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and cross-site request forgery (CSRF).Leverage automation tools to streamline repetitive integration tasks.Research, evaluate, and recommend software tools, platforms, and third-party solutions to meet business and technical requirements.Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following best practices and coding standards.Develop and maintain clear documentation on system integrations, tech specs, data flow diagrams, and configuration changes.Perform unit testing, integration testing, and code reviews to ensure software quality and maintainability.Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and practices, suggesting and implementing improvements to streamline workflows and increase productivity.