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As aSenior Integration Architect (Data & APIs)at Empower, you will be both a strategic leader and hands-on technical expert responsible fordesigning and evolving enterprise integration architecture. Partnering with enterprise architects, application teams, and business leaders, you will define API-first and event-driven architectures that enable real-time, reliable, and scalable system communication.
You will drive standardized integration patterns such as RESTful/gRPCAPIs, asynchronous messaging, and data contracts to ensure consistency, security, and resilience across the enterprise, while leading modernization efforts to reduce point-to-point integrations andenable looselycoupled systems across legacy and modern platforms. You will influence key architectural decisions, mentor engineering teams, andestablishbest practices for API lifecycle management, event-driven design, and distributed system reliability.
Define and enforce data contracts, schemas, and interface standards to ensure consistent, reliable data exchange across domains
Design for resilience in distributed systems, including preventing duplicate processing, managing retries and replays, and ensuring fault tolerance
Establish best practices for API lifecycle management including versioning, documentation, security, and governance
Understanding of reliability considerations in distributed systems (e.g., handling failures, retries, or duplicate processing)
Nice to Have Qualifications
Experience with API management platforms or gateways (e.g., Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management)
Experienceparticipatingin architecture governance processes (e.g., design reviews, reference architectures, ADRs)
Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or related field (information systems, mathematics, software engineering, etc.)
Physical Requirements/Working Conditions
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.
