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Company Introduction WorldStrides is the global leader in educational travel and experiential learning. The company was founded in 1967 to provide middle school travel programs to Washington, D.C. and has grown to provide a wide range of programs for more than half a million students annually to over 100 countries around the world. WorldStrides offers experiential learning programs in educational travel, performing arts, language immersion, career exploration, service-learning, study abroad, and sports. Each of these experiences helps students to see beyond the classroom and to see the world – and themselves – in new ways. Job Description WorldStrides is seeking an experienced Integration Engineer to design, build, and support secure, scalable integrations across enterprise systems, third-party platforms, and internal applications. This role will be part of our technology team in Mérida, Mexico and will help improve how our systems connect, exchange data, and support business operations. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Azure Integration Services, Azure API Management, REST and SOAP APIs, message queues, pub/sub patterns, Azure DevOps, and Git. Experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a plus, but not required. In this role, the Integration Engineer will work closely with architects, product owners, analysts, developers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable integration solutions. The right candidate will bring a strong engineering mindset, good communication skills, and the ability to build clean, maintainable, and secure integration workflows. Responsibilities: Design, develop, test, deploy, and support secure and scalable integrations across enterprise systems, third-party platforms, and internal applications. Build and manage REST APIs using Azure API Management / APIM and related API lifecycle practices. Develop and support message-based and event-driven integrations using queues, pub/sub patterns, asynchronous processing, and event streaming patterns. Work hands-on with Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web Apps, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Entra ID. Develop REST and SOAP APIs using JSON, XML, and common data transformation patterns. Implement secure authentication and authorization patterns using OAuth 2.0, JWT, token-based authentication, certificates, mTLS, and related security standards. Develop integration solutions, automation scripts, and internal tools using Python and Microsoft Azure services. Follow integration best practices for API design, naming standards, error handling, retry logic, resiliency, monitoring, logging, alerting, and deployment. Apply DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated deployments, and environment management. Support release planning, technical dependencies, deployment coordination, and production readiness. Monitor, troubleshoot, and support production integration environments using tools such as Dynatrace. Partner with architects, product owners, business analysts, security teams, engineering teams, and business stakeholders. Create and maintain technical documentation, API specifications, integration diagrams, support guides, and runbooks. Participate in Agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, demos, retrospectives, and production support reviews. Ensure integration solutions meet security, audit, compliance, performance, and reliability expectations. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. 4+ years of experience in integration technologies, API development, middleware, platform engineering, or software engineering with a strong focus on integrations. Hands-on experience with Azure Integration Services.