Systems Engineer

POSITION TITLE: Systems Engineer

LOCATON: Southeast Cincinnati / KY suburb

COMPENSATION: $85,000–$110,000 base

Korn Ferry has partnered with our client, a solution-oriented logistics service provider that engages in long lasting customer partnerships. Founded in 1896, they have evolved to now offer services ranging from asset based transportation, freight brokerage services, and freight management.

This role is a hands-on technical contributor who designs, builds, and maintains the integrations, data pipelines, and application solutions that connect and power operational and analytical systems.

This role spans the full delivery lifecycle from evaluating and modernizing business technology to building reliable system integrations, governing data quality, and leading technical projects from requirements through rollout.

Systems Integration and Application Development:

• Design and implement integrations with internal and external systems using web services, file-based exchange, and EDI patterns.
• Work within existing codebases to maintain and develop new features for internal applications.
• Serve as a liaison between vendor technical teams and internal business units or end users.
• Troubleshoot existing system integrations issues to minimize business impact while driving process improvement.

Data Quality, Governance, & Documentation:

• Implement data quality checks and validation rules at key pipeline stages, including governed error logging and systematic improvements to reduce or eliminate recurring issues.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation across the full project lifecycle, including process maps, metadata practices, testing plans, integration specs, and rollout tasks that build trust in platform data and support consistent, repeatable delivery.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, estimates, and work plans for design, development, and rollout tasks.
• Continuously improving pipeline performance, observability, security, and maintainability.
• Technology Evaluation and Modernization:
• Evaluates the current business technology landscape and recommend new technologies, upgrades, or enhancements to modernize business applications and improve business performance.
• Conducts functional and empirical analysis to support the design, development, and implementation of data solutions and tools.
• Support pragmatic build vs buy decisions while maintaining architectural integrity

Systems Project Leadership:

• Leads end-to-end technical project delivery, owning application design, software specifications, and engineering process decisions from requirements through rollout. This includes completing estimates and work plans and coordinating internal and external development resources to ensure new technology integrates effectively with legacy solutions.
• Proactively manages quality and risk by communicating timely status updates and escalating potential risks or issues to appropriate leaders and teams, providing solutions to minimize business impact, ensuring releases are managed appropriately and all completed work meets the highest quality standards.
• Drives outcomes-focused execution by assessing and continuously improving software solutions in partnership with external technical resources, balancing engineering rigor with business requirements to deliver technology products that produce measurable operational results.

Requirements:

• US citizenship required (no sponsorship needed.)
• Experience with Golang (Go), Python, C++, Java, HTTP, FTP, JSON, XML and fixed width files.
• Strong background in SQL Development on MSSQL, MySQL or other relational database platforms.
• Experience implementing and integrating into web services (i.e., REST/SOAP APIs).
• Experience using GitHub or other version control systems.
• Experience with Windows server maintenance/management in MS Azure and Docker is a plus.
• Excellent technical skills, including troubleshooting – software experience includes: MS Office suite, data warehousing/reporting (Tableau/Domo), process mapping (Lucid Chart/Visio), and other areas such as Transportation Management Systems (TMS – i.e. MercuryGate) or Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) are a plus.
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic, results-focused and able to think strategically
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate between technical and business levels
• Proven track record of effectively delivering results in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple priorities
• Must be available to support night/weekend teams as needed.
• Ability to work independently and build collaborative relationships within a team.

Job ID #: 510813047