Manager, Integration Engineering (Aerospace & Defense)

Location: Hybrid in Buffalo, NY; must live locally or be willing to relocate. A remote work schedule is not possible.

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace and defense company with a performance-focused culture that develops and supports complex technical systems.

What you will do

• Lead the integration engineering team as a player-coach, providing technical direction, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Build and improve enterprise integration patterns and standards across iPaaS, Azure Data Factory, IBM MQ, and related platforms, including observability, telemetry, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Own the integration catalog, service inventory, shared backlog, intake process, prioritization model, SLAs/SLOs, and integration health reporting.
• Coordinate with application owners, business leaders, IT teams, the Integration Architect, vendors, and program stakeholders on delivery, support, estimates, roadblocks, tooling, contracts, and capacity.
• Reduce operational risk through cross-training, runbooks, incident escalation, formal change management, and elimination of single points of failure.
• Ensure integration delivery follows version control, code review, testing, environment parity, cybersecurity, data handling, CMMC, ITAR, and other aerospace and defense requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on integration development experience with iPaaS, eQ, Azure Data Factory or comparable application-to-application/ETL tooling, and IBM MQ Series or comparable enterprise messaging.
• 3+ years of leading highly technical engineering teams, including third-party staff augmentation and federated delivery models.
• Experience leading or mentoring developers in a formal management or senior technical lead role.
• Experience gathering requirements from business stakeholders, setting priorities, and communicating status and risk in non-technical terms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed, asynchronous, and batch integration patterns.
• Ability to operate with limited documentation and create processes and structure where none exists.

Nice to have

• Experience with ERP, MES, or PLM-adjacent integration patterns, including SAP, Oracle, or Teamcenter, and production manufacturing constraints.
• Experience building or maintaining an integration catalog, service inventory, or system of record for technical assets.
• Exposure to DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, or Jenkins for integration deployment pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-focused, respectful, and inclusive workplace with a family-like culture and employee-led resource groups.
• Compensation package with bonus opportunities, matching 401(k), and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan at select locations.
• Flexible paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, disability, EAP, FSA, and HSA benefits.
• Tuition assistance, mentorship, coaching, leadership development, and other professional growth programs.
• Employment requires access to U.S. export-controlled information.