API Technical Lead, VP

Role Summary We are looking for an experienced API Technical Lead with more than 10 years of experience to own the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise APIs that power internal platforms, client integrations, and partner ecosystems. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with architecture, standards, and cross‑team influence to ensure APIs are scalable, secure, and developer‑friendly.

Key Responsibilities API Architecture & Design Own the API strategy and architecture (REST/gRPC/event‑driven as appropriate)
Define and enforce API standards (naming, versioning, error handling, pagination)
Design APIs for scalability, performance, and backward compatibility

Drive API‑first and contract‑driven development (OpenAPI/Swagger, schemas)
Lead API lifecycle management: design build version deprecate

Engineering Leadership Provide hands‑on technical leadership for API development teams

Review designs and code to ensure quality, consistency, and best practices

Lead complex API initiatives and cross‑service integrations

Mentor engineers and raise the overall API engineering barAct as the primary technical escalation point for API‑related issues

Security, Reliability & Governance Ensure APIs meet enterprise security standards (authN/authZ, rate limiting, input validation)
Integrate APIs with OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and centralized auth services

Define and implement API governance, approvals, and change management

Ensure observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and SLAsDrive resiliency: throttling, circuit breakers, retries, and graceful degradation

Platform & Ecosystem Enablement Build and maintain API gateways, developer portals, and shared libraries/SDKsEnable self‑service onboarding for internal and external consumers

Partner with product, security, SRE, and platform teams

Support internal, client, and partner integrations at scale

Delivery & Operations Integrate APIs with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

Ensure production readiness, on‑call support, and incident response

Drive API modernization and legacy integration cleanup

Track adoption, performance, and reliability metrics

Required Skills & Experience Technical Strong  experience designing and delivering enterprise APIsExpertise in REST APIs; experience with gRPC and event‑driven APIs a plus Proficiency in Java, C#, or similar backend technologies

Strong experience with API gateways and service mesh concepts

Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices

Platform & Dev Ops Experience  with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud platforms CI/CD automation and Git‑based workflows

Observability tools (metrics, tracing, logging)
Familiarity with API testing, mocking, and contract validation

Security & ComplianceOAuth2, OIDC, JWT, RBAC, secrets management

Rate limiting, abuse prevention, and data protection

Audit logging and compliance‑ready API design

Nice to Have Experience supporting external client or partner APIsKnowledge of financial services or regulated environments

Exposure to API monetization, throttling tiers, or usage analytics

Experience driving API platform or integration strategy

Salary Range:$120,000 - $202,500 Annual The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans);

and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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