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Illinois Secretary of State

Maintains official records and issues licenses

Information Systems Advisor 2 - Integration Management

Full-Time
$8k - $14.1k/mo
Mid
Bachelor's
Springfield, IL, USA
In Person
Engineering Management
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to the completion of two years of college, with coursework in the computer science field.
  • Requires 4.5 years of experience with technical systems and/or programming experience and/or information technology project management, including at least 1 year of supervisory experience, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Requires extensive knowledge of systems design and implementation, including how programs are written, compiled, and tested, methods of operating computers, and how data is transcribed into a suitable form, together with an appreciation of the wider business context for those programs.
  • Requires oral and written communication skills for effective engagement with colleagues and internal users or customers.
  • Requires the ability to analyze, evaluate, and solve procedural, organizational, administrative, and technical problems.
  • Requires the use and understanding of appropriate methods, tools, applications, and processes to demonstrate a rational and organized approach to work.
  • Requires awareness of and adherence to organizational standards for security, privacy, and ethics.
  • Requires extensive knowledge of devices for capturing computer data and means for receiving and transmitting data from remote locations to a computer.
  • Requires extensive knowledge of computer system documentation principles and techniques.
  • Requires extensive knowledge of computer communication and information retrieval systems as management information tools.
  • Requires the ability to follow oral and written instructions and carry out established routine operations.
  • Requires the ability to organize facts and findings, analyze data logically, and present results clearly in oral, written, or graphic form.
  • Requires willingness to travel and possession of a valid Illinois driver's license as required by individual positions within the class.
  • Requires the ability to lift, carry, and push or pull 0 to 50 pounds.
Responsibilities
  • Acts independently in a senior technical role providing hands-on engineering expertise and day-to-day supervisory oversight for the Integration Management Team within the Enterprise Applications division.
  • Leads the design, development, maintenance, and support of MuleSoft- and application programming interface-driven integrations connecting critical Illinois Secretary of State systems.
  • Provides advanced engineering expertise and functional leadership while ensuring high-quality solutions, technical consistency, and adherence to enterprise standards.
  • Works closely with architecture, platform, and infrastructure teams.
  • Supports the Division Support Manager for Front-End and Integrations by coordinating daily team activities, reviewing technical work, and serving as the primary subject matter expert for integration architecture and implementation.
  • Designs, builds, and maintains enterprise integrations using MuleSoft, API-led connectivity, Java, and related integration technologies.
  • Develops and maintains REST APIs, data transformations, orchestration flows, and integration pipelines.
  • Ensures solutions follow enterprise architecture patterns, security controls, and reusable integration standards.
  • Conducts troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis for integration issues.
  • Oversees daily assignments and workloads for Integration Management team members.
  • Supports the Division Support Manager by providing technical evaluations of staff and recommending training or development needs.
  • Reviews team deliverables for quality, consistency, and adherence to best practices.
  • Serves as technical lead on priority initiatives and supports junior engineers in problem-solving.
  • Leads resolution of production integration incidents and coordinates with application teams, infrastructure, and leadership.
  • Ensures integrations meet availability, performance, and reliability expectations.
  • Maintains integration monitoring, logging, and alerting configurations to ensure system health.
  • Works with architects, data teams, application developers, quality assurance staff, and business analysts across the Enterprise Applications group.
  • Translates integration requirements into technical specifications and development tasks.
  • Communicates risks, impacts, and technical considerations to the Division Support Manager and project stakeholders.
  • Maintains documentation, including API specifications, design diagrams, runbooks, and support guides.
  • Recommends improvements to integration frameworks, tools, and development processes.
  • Supports modernization efforts involving enterprise APIs, messaging, and legacy system replacement.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

About the company

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Illinois Secretary of State

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The Illinois Secretary of State is a constitutional office that keeps official state records and the state seal, and it runs about 20 departments with roughly 4,000 employees. It maintains Capitol Complex buildings, oversees the state library network, preserves historic documents, and provides services like driver licensing, vehicle registration, and license plates. It differs from others by combining recordkeeping, branding (the state seal), licensing, libraries, archives, and public safety education in one statewide office. Its goal is to serve residents by keeping important records, issuing IDs and vehicle documents, supporting libraries and archives, and offering safety education and public services.

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Stamford, Connecticut

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