Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an Integration Engineer (Middleware Specialist) to support secure, scalable system-to-system integrations in a federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. The role designs and manages middleware services, event-driven workflows, data transformations, integration pipelines, and documentation while collaborating with engineering and cybersecurity teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain middleware services, integration workflows, and transformation logic
- Support event-driven architectures, including queues, pub/sub messaging, and asynchronous data pipelines
- Implement system-to-system orchestration using integration tools, middleware, and workflow engines
- Build secure and reliable transformations between disparate data formats, schemas, and payload structures
- Integrate applications using APIs, message brokers, and cloud-native integration services
- Troubleshoot middleware issues, message delivery failures, and integration performance problems
- Develop mapping specifications, metadata models, and integration documentation
- Ensure alignment with DoD cybersecurity policies, secure coding expectations, and Zero Trust data principles
- Support integration testing, message validation, and workflow debugging
- Maintain integration diagrams, sequence flows, and system interaction documentation
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams
Skills
- Must hold an **active Top Secret clearance**, supported by a **Tier 5** background investigation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a closely related technical field
- Minimum **6 years** of experience in integration engineering, middleware development, or backend systems engineering
- Experience building and supporting event-driven or message-based integration solutions
- Experience with data transformations, mapping logic, and integration pipelines
- Experience troubleshooting middleware or system-to-system communication issues
- Experience supporting enterprise, federal, or DoD environments
- Strong understanding of message queues, pub/sub systems, and event-driven patterns
- Experience with middleware technologies (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, MQ-based systems)
- Familiarity with REST APIs, integration layers, and service-to-service communication
- Knowledge of data transformation tools, schema mapping, and workflow engines
- Understanding of secure coding and DoD cybersecurity expectations
- CompTIA Security+
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities for complex integration workflows
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams
- High attention to detail and commitment to secure, maintainable middleware implementation
- Ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant integration workflows
- Strong documentation discipline for mapping specifications and integration diagrams
- Experience with AWS GovCloud or cloud-native integration ecosystems
- Familiarity with microservices, service mesh architectures, or streaming platforms
- Experience with XML/JSON transformation tooling or ETL pipelines
- ITIL v4 Foundation
- AWS Developer or Architect certification
- Integration or middleware-focused certifications
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
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