Lead Specialist, Application Programming Interface & Integration

Job description

The role ensures seamless, secure, and reliable data exchange across enterprise systems and applications. It connects business and technology ecosystems through scalable integration services that support operational efficiency, digital transformation, and data‑driven decision making. It establishes robust integration standards and governs API delivery to make enterprise data accessible, protected, and consumable via trusted interfaces. Responsibilities include delivering secure, scalable APIs and integration services; establishing integration patterns and service standards; enabling governed access to data products; embedding authentication, authorization, auditing, and access controls; ensuring alignment with data governance, security, and enterprise architecture; maintaining API lifecycle controls; providing highly available and resilient integration services; enhancing observability through monitoring, logging, metrics, and tracing; resolving production incidents and driving continuous improvement; offering technical guidance and assurance; collaborating with data engineering, platform, and application teams; facilitating API adoption through documentation and onboarding; improving performance, scalability, and efficiency; driving standardization and automation; and promoting best practices for enterprise integration maturity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline
• 7-10 years of experience in API development and integration engineering within enterprise environments
• experience delivering production‑grade integrations with strong security and governance requirements
• experience supporting and optimizing mission‑critical integration services
• experience collaborating across platform, engineering, architecture, and business teams
• proficiency in API design and development
• proficiency in integration architecture and engineering
• proficiency in API lifecycle management
• proficiency in security controls and access management
• proficiency in service contracts, versioning, and documentation
• proficiency in event‑driven and enterprise integration patterns
• proficiency in operational excellence
• proficiency in incident and problem management
• proficiency in performance optimization
• proficiency in governance and compliance
• proficiency in continuous improvement
• proficiency in technical assurance and quality delivery
• proficiency in stakeholder management
• proficiency in cross‑functional collaboration
• proficiency in vendor coordination
• proficiency in communication and influence
• proficiency in technical leadership
• proficiency in ownership and accountability.

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