Staff Integration Engineer- TechOps

Gap Inc

Spoke - Hyderabad permanent

Posted: February 18, 2026

Required Skills

Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer – Data Integration with 7+ years of experience to provide architectural leadership while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day technical and operational activities. This role owns the stability, performance, and evolution of enterprise integration platforms across messaging, streaming, batch, ETL, and EDI systems.
What You'll Do

Responsibilites:

• Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture and reference patterns.
• Drive modernization of integrations to event-driven and streaming-based designs.
• Decide platform usage patterns for Kafka vs MQ vs RabbitMQ based on workload.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance across integration systems.
• Govern schema evolution, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies.
• Review, design, and approve integration flows, message schemas, and data contracts.
• Actively participate in production monitoring for Kafka, MQ, RabbitMQ, ETL, and batch jobs.
• Perform daily health checks on integration platforms (throughput, lag, queue depth, failures).
• Lead triage and resolution of production issues, including Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive permanent fixes and preventive actions.
• Review and optimize Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, MQ queues, and exchanges.
• Ensure batch and ETL jobs meet performance SLAs and data accuracy requirements.
• Oversee EDI transaction flows, partner onboarding, and issue resolution.
• Validate deployments, configuration changes, and releases to integration platforms.
• Enforce operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call readiness for integration systems.

Technical Skills

• Provide hands-on guidance and troubleshooting for complex integration implementations.
• Review critical code changes, ETL logic, batch frameworks, and messaging configurations.
• Lead design and technical reviews for high-impact integration initiatives.
• Guide teams on performance tuning, retry mechanisms, idempotency, and error handling
• Define monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for integration pipelines.
• Ensure integration platforms comply with security, audit, and data governance policies.
• Partner with SRE and Infra teams to improve resilience, DR, and capacity planning.
• Drive automation for operational tasks and repetitive manual activities.

Behavioural Competencies

• Mentor senior and staff engineers on integration best practices.
• Support product and business teams by translating requirements into operationally sound solutions.
• Act as escalation point for complex technical and operational issues.

Influence roadmap decisions based on operational insights and production realities

Who You Are

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise integration, middleware, or data engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise in:• Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ
• Batch processing and ETL frameworks
• EDI integrations

• Proven experience operating high-volume, mission-critical integration platforms.
• Strong understanding of event-driven systems, asynchronous messaging, and data consistency.
• Demonstrated experience handling production operations at scale.

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