API Design Lead

Immediate need for a talented API Design Lead
. This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in U.S(Remote).

Job
-15461

Pay Range: $70 - $90/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision).

• Notes from Manager;
  Responsible for defining and upholding API design principles, selecting the appropriate technology stack, and ensuring high-quality, domain-aligned API products.
• This senior role will collaborate with cross-functional teams on IRI standards, Event-Driven and Composable Architecture, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• The individual will advise top leadership and help establish standards for API design, quality, and testing across teams.
• Integration Strategy and Architecture:
• Develop and lead the integration delivery for the Acquisition Platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technology standards.
• Lead the implementation of scalable and maintainable APIs as products
• Deliver according to architectural blueprints, integration patterns, and best practices to guide development teams.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:
• Collaborate with the Product Team, Product Architect and Platform Engineering Lead to understand integration requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of integration solutions with overall platform goals and enterprise standards.
• Implementation and Development Support:
• Guide and support implementation teams during the development and deployment of integration solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• AI Assisted Development and Agentic Integration
• Leverage AI assisted development techniques (e.g., prompt engineering, structured prompting, and human in the loop workflows) to accelerate API, integration, and orchestration development.
• Co develop integration solutions alongside AI tools to improve design quality, documentation, test coverage, and delivery speed.
• Explore and introduce agent based patterns (e.g., tool calling agents, workflow agents, or MCP style orchestration) where appropriate to automate integration tasks, environment interactions, or operational workflows.
• Identify opportunities where AI enabled automation can reduce manual effort, improve resiliency, or simplify complex cross system interactions.
• External Orientation
  - Stay current with industry trends and innovations to continuously improve the integration landscape.
• For third party integrations, help select the optimal integration pattern and provide rationale, proving through Proof of Concepts or Proof of Value engagements where possible
• Compliance and Security:
  
  -Ensure integration solutions adhere to enterprise architecture standards, security protocols, and industry regulations.
• Conduct security assessments and audits to identify and mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with security teams to influence maturity of standards and policies where unique needs of the Acquisition Platform are concerned.
• Leadership and Talent Development:
• Work with the IT leadership team to embrace contemporary ways of working, attract and develop talent across the firm, and leverage economies of scale and shared capabilities.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence within the integration and development teams.
• Identify and address skill gaps, providing training and development opportunities to team members.

• API Strategy – vision and plan to extract value from API economy
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