Integration Engineer Jobs in Illinois
Integration Engineer jobs in Illinois are in steady demand, with hiring concentrated in enterprise software, manufacturing automation, healthcare IT, and financial services, covering roles from entry-level systems integrators through senior architects. Chicago leads the market by a wide margin, with significant activity in the suburbs around Naperville and Schaumburg, where major employers like Motorola Solutions, Abbott Laboratories, and Zebra Technologies maintain large technical operations. The most sought-after specialties in Illinois are API and middleware integration, ERP systems integration, and industrial control system connectivity. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Weekly outpatient therapy isn't always enough, and a trip to the ER isn't the only answer. Patients and their families rely on Compass Health Center when in crisis – every day, we help people overcome depression, anxiety, suicidality, obsessions/compulsions, trauma, chronic pain, and other obstacles in order for our patients to live freely.
About This Role
The Data & Integration Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for building and maintaining Compass Health Center's data platform, integrations, pipelines, and trusted data foundation. In this role, you'll play an important part in connecting data across clinical, operational, financial, and business systems, ensuring it is reliable, secure, well-structured, and accessible to support reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled use.
You'll help shape and strengthen Compass's data environment by centralizing and standardizing data, reducing manual and fragile processes, and building scalable solutions using Microsoft Fabric and related technologies.
Our dedicated operations teams work behind the scenes to bring our shared mission to life. Each department delivers their own set of strengths which empower our clinicians to focus on their expertise, and ultimately perform the meaningful work that we do.
What You'll Do
Data Engineering & Integration
- Build, maintain, and improve data pipelines, integrations, transformations, lakehouse structures, and data models.
- Bring data from EMR/EHR, finance, HR, CRM, scheduling, payer, and other systems into a governed data platform.
- Use SQL, Python/PySpark, APIs, dataflows, notebooks, connectors, gateways, and other appropriate tools to move and transform data.
- Replace manual, file-based, or fragile processes with reliable and scalable solutions.
- Build integrations between cloud based, and SaaS systems.
- Evaluate new data sources and determine the best approach for ingestion, integration, and ongoing support.
Reliability, Quality & Security
- Monitor pipelines, refreshes, integrations, and data quality and quickly troubleshoot failures.
- Build appropriate logging, alerting, error handling, and recovery processes.
- Resolve issues related to source-system changes, schemas, credentials, gateways, and data availability.
- Improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of existing data workflows.
- Reduce dependencies on individual users, workstations, manual file movement, and undocumented processes.
- Maintain clear documentation, lineage, naming standards, and technical ownership of data assets.
- Support appropriate data access, security, privacy, and handling of PHI and other sensitive information.
Analytics & AI Enablement
- Build the trusted data foundation needed for reporting, self-service analytics, and AI-enabled analysis.
- Partner with analysts and business owners to understand data requirements, definitions, quality issues, and priorities.
- Structure and document data so it can be used confidently in Power BI, advanced analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Partner with the Senior Clinical Data Analyst and Technology leadership to evaluate and enable new analytics and AI capabilities.
- Help establish scalable technical patterns for governed access to data.
- Identify opportunities to use Microsoft Fabric and related tools to improve data engineering, integration, quality, and automation.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Analytics, Infrastructure, Security, EMR, application owners, and vendors when data or integrations cross systems.
- Translate business and analytical requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
- Communicate technical issues, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the environment and improve how data moves across the organization.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, software engineering, business intelligence engineering, or related work.
- Experience building and supporting production data pipelines and integrations.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational and analytical data.
- Experience with Python, PySpark, or similar data transformation technologies.
- Experience with ETL/ELT, APIs, data modeling, data quality, and integration patterns.
- Experience working with modern cloud data platforms.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex data and integration issues.
- Ability to turn business and analytical needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
- Understanding of data security, access controls, privacy, and handling of sensitive information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Data Factory, pipelines, notebooks, dataflows, gateways, or related capabilities.
- Experience with Power BI and designing data structures that support reporting and analytics.
- Experience integrating EMR/EHR, finance, HR, CRM, scheduling, payer, or other enterprise systems.
- Experience working in healthcare or another regulated environment involving PHI or sensitive data.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 technologies.
- Experience modernizing legacy, manual, and file-based data processes.
- Familiarity with data governance, lineage, metadata management, and AI-enabled analytics.
We know job descriptions can be intimidating, so if this sounds like an opportunity for you, please don't hesitate to apply!
Who We Are
Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient space (PHP/IOP). Based in Chicagoland, we serve hundreds of patients every day, ranging from ages 5 through adulthood, in our onsite facilities or through our flourishing virtual programming. Compass fills a critical gap between outpatient and inpatient care through an intermediate level of Behavioral Healthcare.
A few more things we want you to know: our values are super important to us, and hopefully will be to you, too. Cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient centered care, passion, innovation, and agility should be your power sources. Joining Compass is an opportunity to feel fulfilled through a joint mission towards healing our communities.
Benefits & Perks
We know that you will be dedicated to your purpose here. We look at that investment as a two-way street. We are proud to offer plenty of space for growth, and opportunities to pursue continuous development within our organization.
For eligible positions, our other benefits include: comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans, 401k program with company matching, generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment), and continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities.
What's Next?
Compass is committed to cultivating diverse and dynamic teams who exude passion for their craft, so whether or not you check all the boxes, we encourage you to apply – we'd be grateful to hear from you!
Weekly outpatient therapy isn't always enough, and a trip to the ER isn't the only answer. Patients and their families rely on Compass Health Center when in crisis – every day, we help people overcome depression, anxiety, suicidality, obsessions/compulsions, trauma, chronic pain, and other obstacles in order for our patients to live freely.
About This Role
The Data & Integration Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for building and maintaining Compass Health Center's data platform, integrations, pipelines, and trusted data foundation. In this role, you'll play an important part in connecting data across clinical, operational, financial, and business systems, ensuring it is reliable, secure, well-structured, and accessible to support reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled use.
You'll help shape and strengthen Compass's data environment by centralizing and standardizing data, reducing manual and fragile processes, and building scalable solutions using Microsoft Fabric and related technologies.
Our dedicated operations teams work behind the scenes to bring our shared mission to life. Each department delivers their own set of strengths which empower our clinicians to focus on their expertise, and ultimately perform the meaningful work that we do.
What You'll Do
Data Engineering & Integration
- Build, maintain, and improve data pipelines, integrations, transformations, lakehouse structures, and data models.
- Bring data from EMR/EHR, finance, HR, CRM, scheduling, payer, and other systems into a governed data platform.
- Use SQL, Python/PySpark, APIs, dataflows, notebooks, connectors, gateways, and other appropriate tools to move and transform data.
- Replace manual, file-based, or fragile processes with reliable and scalable solutions.
- Build integrations between cloud based, and SaaS systems.
- Evaluate new data sources and determine the best approach for ingestion, integration, and ongoing support.
Reliability, Quality & Security
- Monitor pipelines, refreshes, integrations, and data quality and quickly troubleshoot failures.
- Build appropriate logging, alerting, error handling, and recovery processes.
- Resolve issues related to source-system changes, schemas, credentials, gateways, and data availability.
- Improve the reliability, performance, and maintainability of existing data workflows.
- Reduce dependencies on individual users, workstations, manual file movement, and undocumented processes.
- Maintain clear documentation, lineage, naming standards, and technical ownership of data assets.
- Support appropriate data access, security, privacy, and handling of PHI and other sensitive information.
Analytics & AI Enablement
- Build the trusted data foundation needed for reporting, self-service analytics, and AI-enabled analysis.
- Partner with analysts and business owners to understand data requirements, definitions, quality issues, and priorities.
- Structure and document data so it can be used confidently in Power BI, advanced analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Partner with the Senior Clinical Data Analyst and Technology leadership to evaluate and enable new analytics and AI capabilities.
- Help establish scalable technical patterns for governed access to data.
- Identify opportunities to use Microsoft Fabric and related tools to improve data engineering, integration, quality, and automation.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Analytics, Infrastructure, Security, EMR, application owners, and vendors when data or integrations cross systems.
- Translate business and analytical requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
- Communicate technical issues, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the environment and improve how data moves across the organization.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, software engineering, business intelligence engineering, or related work.
- Experience building and supporting production data pipelines and integrations.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational and analytical data.
- Experience with Python, PySpark, or similar data transformation technologies.
- Experience with ETL/ELT, APIs, data modeling, data quality, and integration patterns.
- Experience working with modern cloud data platforms.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex data and integration issues.
- Ability to turn business and analytical needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
- Understanding of data security, access controls, privacy, and handling of sensitive information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Data Factory, pipelines, notebooks, dataflows, gateways, or related capabilities.
- Experience with Power BI and designing data structures that support reporting and analytics.
- Experience integrating EMR/EHR, finance, HR, CRM, scheduling, payer, or other enterprise systems.
- Experience working in healthcare or another regulated environment involving PHI or sensitive data.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 technologies.
- Experience modernizing legacy, manual, and file-based data processes.
- Familiarity with data governance, lineage, metadata management, and AI-enabled analytics.
We know job descriptions can be intimidating, so if this sounds like an opportunity for you, please don't hesitate to apply!
Who We Are
Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient space (PHP/IOP). Based in Chicagoland, we serve hundreds of patients every day, ranging from ages 5 through adulthood, in our onsite facilities or through our flourishing virtual programming. Compass fills a critical gap between outpatient and inpatient care through an intermediate level of Behavioral Healthcare.
A few more things we want you to know: our values are super important to us, and hopefully will be to you, too. Cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient centered care, passion, innovation, and agility should be your power sources. Joining Compass is an opportunity to feel fulfilled through a joint mission towards healing our communities.
Benefits & Perks
We know that you will be dedicated to your purpose here. We look at that investment as a two-way street. We are proud to offer plenty of space for growth, and opportunities to pursue continuous development within our organization.
For eligible positions, our other benefits include: comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans, 401k program with company matching, generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment), and continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities.
What's Next?
Compass is committed to cultivating diverse and dynamic teams who exude passion for their craft, so whether or not you check all the boxes, we encourage you to apply – we'd be grateful to hear from you!
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Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Automotive
- Artificial Intelligence
- Transportation & Logistics
What Illinois Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in integration engineer jobs across Illinois.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience with integration platforms such as MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, or IBM Integration Bus
- Proficiency in API design, REST and SOAP web services, and middleware architecture
- Familiarity with ERP systems including SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics in enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of data formats, messaging protocols, and ETL pipeline development
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams across business and IT stakeholders in Illinois organizations
Integration Engineer Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a integration engineer in Illinois?
Illinois does not require a state-issued license for integration engineers, so the path runs through education and employer credentials. Most employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, electrical engineering, or a related field. From there, hands-on experience with integration platforms and vendor certifications from providers like MuleSoft or IBM carry significant weight with Illinois employers, particularly in the Chicago metro's large enterprise and healthcare IT sectors.
How much do integration engineers make in Illinois?
Integration engineers in Illinois earn a median of about $111,930 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $58,920 for the lowest 10% to over $168,770 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire integration engineers in Illinois?
Employers hiring integration engineers in Illinois right now include Capital One, CommonSpirit Health, and ARI, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Illinois's dense concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters, major health systems, and industrial manufacturers means demand is spread across a broad range of sectors rather than one dominant industry.
Which Illinois cities have the most integration engineer jobs?
Chicago, Riverwoods, and Peoria account for the most integration engineer openings in Illinois. Chicago dominates due to its concentration of financial services firms, healthcare networks, and enterprise technology companies, while suburban hubs like Naperville and Schaumburg attract roles tied to large corporate headquarters and manufacturing technology operations based in the western and northwestern collar counties.
Are there remote integration engineer jobs in Illinois?
Yes, and more than most technical fields. About 70% of integration engineer openings tied to Illinois are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the desk-based and software-driven nature of much of the work. Roles focused on API development, middleware configuration, and cloud integration tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions involving on-site industrial systems or manufacturing floor connectivity typically require a physical presence.
How can I get hired as a integration engineer in Illinois with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a junior systems integrator or IT associate role at a mid-size Illinois technology services firm or healthcare organization. Large Illinois employers like Advocate Health and Zebra Technologies occasionally run rotational IT programs that include integration work. Building a portfolio around a personal API project or an open-source middleware contribution gives candidates a concrete edge, and an entry-level MuleSoft or Azure Integration Services certification signals readiness to hiring managers reviewing candidates without a long employment history.
Where can I find and apply to integration engineer jobs in Illinois?
You can find and apply to integration engineer jobs in Illinois on Migrate Mate, which lists current Illinois openings from employers actively hiring now. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly, with no intermediary step required.
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