API Integration Specialist | Integration Architect

We're Hiring: API Integration Specialist | Integration Architect

Employment Type:

Full-Time

Level: Mid-Level to Senior

We are seeking a technically skilled and solution-oriented API Integration Specialist | Integration Architect to design, develop, and manage scalable integration solutions across applications, platforms, and enterprise systems. This role will work closely with software engineering, cloud, data, security, and business teams to build reliable APIs and integration architectures that enable seamless data exchange and efficient business operations.

• Design and implement scalable API and enterprise integration solutions.
• Develop, configure, and maintain RESTful APIs, SOAP services, and other integration interfaces.
• Design integration architectures connecting internal applications, third-party platforms, SaaS solutions, databases, and cloud services.
• Analyze business and technical requirements to determine appropriate integration approaches.
• Develop API specifications, integration workflows, interface definitions, and technical documentation.
• Establish API design standards, integration patterns, naming conventions, and development best practices.
• Build secure and reliable data‑exchange mechanisms between systems and applications.
• Integrate CRM, ERP, payment, e‑commerce, analytics, identity, and other enterprise platforms.
• Develop middleware and integration services using appropriate enterprise integration technologies.
• Work with event‑driven architectures, message queues, asynchronous processing, and real‑time integrations where required.
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, API keys, and JWT.
• Apply encryption, access controls, rate limiting, and other security measures to protect APIs and integrations.
• Design API gateways, service interfaces, routing, transformation, and orchestration processes.
• Develop data transformation and mapping logic between different systems and data formats.
• Work with JSON, XML, CSV, webhooks, and other common data‑exchange formats.
• Troubleshoot API failures, integration errors, data inconsistencies, performance issues, and connectivity problems.
• Monitor API availability, latency, throughput, error rates, and overall integration performance.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability for integration services.
• Collaborate with developers, solution architects, Dev Ops engineers, data engineers, and cybersecurity teams.
• Support cloud‑based integration solutions across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid environments.
• Participate in application modernization, cloud migration, digital transformation, and system‑integration initiatives.
• Evaluate third‑party APIs and integration capabilities for compatibility, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Manage API versioning, lifecycle management, backward compatibility, and deprecation processes.
• Establish API governance and ensure integration solutions comply with organizational standards.
• Conduct technical reviews and provide architectural recommendations for complex integration requirements.
• Support testing activities including unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, and security testing.
• Develop automated integration tests and deployment processes where appropriate.
• Maintain integration architecture diagrams, API documentation, data mappings, and operational runbooks.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis for recurring integration problems and implement long‑term solutions.
• Continuously evaluate new integration technologies, API management platforms, and architectural patterns.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
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