Staff Integration Engineer- TechOps

GAP Inc

2 - 5 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 25/02/2026

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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.

About Company

Gap Inc., commonly known as GAP, is a leading global retailer specializing in clothing, accessories, and personal care products. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Gap operates several brands, including Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta, and Intermix. The company is known for its casual and stylish apparel, targeting a wide range of age groups and lifestyles. With a strong presence both online and in physical stores, Gap focuses on offering high-quality, affordable fashion while emphasizing sustainability and social responsibility in its operations.