API Design at Pyramid Consulting, Inc. Houston, Texas (52)

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 Houston, Jersey City, Raleigh (Remote). Please review the job description below.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 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 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.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• API & Microservices Architecture
• Enterprise Integration & API Management
• Cloud & AWS API Ecosystem
• Technical Leadership & Enterprise Delivery
• API Security + AI-Assisted Development
• API Strategy - vision and plan to extract value from API economy
• API and Microservice design principles - API as a Product, Contract First, Bounded Context, High Cohesion, Low Coupling, CQRS, Event Driven Design
• API Security - OAuth 2.0, OIDC
• API rate limiting, throttling
• AI assisted design techniques - prompt engineering and iterative co design with large language models
• Responsible AI use - including consideration of security, data exposure, and operational risk
• API performance and reliability - memory leak detection, high volume low latency response, fault tolerant design (i.e. circuit breaker pattern)
• API observability - distributed tracing, APM telemetry instrumentation
• Growth oriented mindset - ability to think beyond constraints of today and identify what is required to build the future
• Excellent communication skills - ability to translate needs and issues between tech and product/business teams
• Required Experience:
• 7+ years development experience
• Experience guiding developers and designers
• Strong API and cloud background
• API Management experience with external partners
• Experienced in applying Agile methodologies
• Enterprise-scale delivery with both onshore and offshore cross functional teams
• Experience in financial services, insurance or retirement services industry
• AWS Deployment Experience - AWS API Gateway, X-ray, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ECS, EKS, Lambdas, Event Bridge

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.