Data Integrations Engineer (onsite)

Position: Data Integrations Engineer (onsite with some hybrid flexibility, Florissant, MO)

Schedule: Full Time

FLSA: Exempt (not eligible for overtime)

Reporting to: Senior Manager of Enterprise Technology

Position Summary

The Augustine Institute seeks a Data Integrations Engineer to develop and maintain the integrations and data pipelines connecting the platforms that support our operations, including finance, fundraising, media distribution, and education. This role builds and maintains integration solutions and data pipelines, documents the data contracts between systems, and coordinates with the organization’s data architect to ensure new development aligns with established architecture and design patterns. The position offers room to grow into end-to-end API design and ownership, preparing our data products for AI use, and migrating our data platform to a modern infrastructure.

Specific duties are listed below, but may not be all-inclusive.

Duties and Responsibilities

Develop and maintain integrations between internal systems and third-party platforms, and document the data contracts between them

Remediate and replace point-to-point vendor integrations with documented, maintainable solutions

Develop and maintain the ETL and ELT pipelines supporting reporting and analytics

Develop code for internal APIs, with support from our back-end developer

Monitor integration and pipeline health, diagnose failures, and resolve them

Provide integration support during new platform implementations, including assessment of how a new system connects to the existing environment

Enable business users to build their own automations within defined governance standards

Qualifications

2+ years of professional experience developing data pipelines, integrations, or backend services

SQL proficiency, plus working proficiency in common coding and scripting languages

Demonstrated experience building and maintaining REST and JSON API integrations, including pagination, rate limiting, webhooks, and error handling

Working knowledge of API authentication and security, including API keys, Basic and Bearer auth, OAuth 2.0, and HMAC signing

Working knowledge of idempotency and retry safety in integration design, including correct handling of duplicate message delivery, retries, and dead letter queues

Understanding of the tradeoffs between event-driven and synchronous integration patterns, and between batch polling and publish/subscribe models

Working knowledge of the OpenAPI specification (3.0+)

Familiarity with large-data principles such as partitioning, replication, and incremental loads

Familiarity with data cataloging, classification, lineage, and quality control

Experience with ETL or ELT development, and with version control using Git and GitHub, including pull request workflows

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with platforms in use at the Augustine Institute, such as NetSuite, HubSpot, Domo, Oracle, Salesforce, or with comparable financial and CRM systems

Experience with TypeScript and Node.js

Experience with workflow automation or iPaaS platforms such as n8n or Workato, or with data platforms such as Airbyte, Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric

Experience with Parquet, dbt, medallion (bronze / silver / gold) data architecture, or client-side versus server-side analytics collection

Skills and Abilities

Hands-on software development capability; familiarity with low-code automation tools such as n8n is expected, but proficiency limited to those platforms is not sufficient for this position

Ability to assess and remediate accumulated technical debt across undocumented integrations

Effective oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders

Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and to coordinate across departments

Commitment to demonstrate consistently the Augustine Institute’s core values including: Excellence – Win Souls for Christ

Innovation – Foster a Creative and Resourceful Mindset

Collaboration – Be the Body of Christ

Humility – Place Mission over “Me”

Community – Build up the Church

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to perform stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, lifting, typing and use of office equipment, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will typically work in a climate-controlled office setting.

Employee Benefits

Competitive compensation, paid time off, and a 403(b) retirement plan, on-site Chapel with Daily Mass and the Sacrament of Reconciliation regularly, on-site lunch.