Lead Specialist, Application Programming Interface & Integration

About the role

The Lead Specialist, API & Integration is responsible for delivering secure, scalable APIs and integration services that enable reliable data exchange across the enterprise. This role establishes integration standards, governs API delivery, and ensures data is accessible, protected, and consumable for internal teams and external partners.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production‑grade APIs and integration services with strong security and governance controls.
• Define and enforce integration patterns, service contracts, versioning and documentation to guarantee consistency and long‑term maintainability.
• Embed authentication, authorization, auditing and access‑control mechanisms and align solutions with enterprise architecture standards.
• Monitor, log and trace integration services, resolve production incidents and drive continuous operational improvements.
• Provide technical guidance to cross‑functional teams, collaborate with data engineering, platform and application groups, and support vendor‑delivered solutions.
• Identify and implement performance, scalability and automation enhancements to increase delivery quality.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or related field.
• 7‑10 years of experience in API development and enterprise integration engineering.
• Proven track record delivering secure, mission‑critical integration services.
• Experience working with platform, architecture and business stakeholders in a collaborative environment.

Required skills

• API design and development
• Integration architecture and engineering
• API lifecycle management (versioning, documentation)
• Security controls and access management
• Event‑driven and enterprise integration patterns
• Incident and problem management
• Performance optimization
• Governance and compliance