Engineering Capability Leader - API
AI summary of the role
This role leads the enterprise API strategy and platform for a bank, defining standards, governance, and adoption across technology teams.
No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.
What you’ll do
- Define and evolve the bank’s enterprise API strategy, ensuring APIs become the primary mechanism for system integration and service delivery
- Manage the entire development lifecycle of API operating models, including establishing design standards, documentation, governance, and adoption practices across technology teams
- Own the enterprise API platform, including gateway, authentication frameworks, developer portal, and API catalog
- Define and enforce standards for API design, error handling, security controls, and performance management
What you’ll bring
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Minimum 6 years of experience in software engineering, integration platforms, or distributed systems
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise APIs and microservices architectures
- Experience building and operating API platforms and gateway technologies
Technologies
API · microservices · OAuth2 · OpenID Connect · mTLS · REST APIs · Kafka · DevSecOps · API gateway · authentication frameworks
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
Our Engineering Capability Leaders believe in collaboration, ingenuity, and truly want to lead design and change in the IT realm. You believe in servant leadership and will work with development teams to thoughtfully create and deliver top-quality systems throughout the organization. What you'll do: Define and evolve the bank’s enterprise API strategy, ensuring APIs become the primary mechanism for system integration and service delivery Manage the entire development lifecycle of API operating models, including establishing design standards, documentation, governance, and adoption practices across technology teams Own the enterprise API platform, including gateway, authentication frameworks, developer portal, and API catalog Utilize subject matter expertise to build secure and reusable frameworks that enable teams to deliver APIs consistently and effectively Define and enforce
More from the job description
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