API Architect – Digital Platforms Engineer & Delivery

Corebridge Financial • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

An API Architect is a senior technical role responsible for defining the strategy, standards, and design of an organization's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This role ensures that APIs are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals and enterprise architecture standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or proven record of experience.
• An understanding of the financial services industry.
• Expertise in Domain Driven Design.
• 7+ years of experience in API design, architecture, and development.
• Strong expertise with REST, GraphQL, event-driven APIs, and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience with designing secure API authentication/authorization frameworks.
• Proven ability to integrate APIs across diverse applications, software systems, and data sources.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong understanding of session management, token strategies, and secure communication protocols.
• Strong JavaScript, Java knowledge.
• Experience with MCP.
• Experience with API gateways, developer portals, and service mesh technologies (e.g. Amazon API Gateway, Istio).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and cloud-native deployment models.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (AWS CloudWatch / CloudTrail, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience working with financial services industry APIs and Domain Driven Design.
• Knowledge of Amazon API Gateway and SmartBear Swagger Portal.
• Knowledge of Spectral Rules for API Governance.
• Expertise in OpenAPI Specifications, Arazzo.
• Certification in Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), API management, or security (OAuth/OIDC/OWASP).
• Experience with GraphQL federation, gRPC, and event streaming (Kafka/Kinesis).

Responsibilities

• API Design & Architecture Expertise: The ability to design clean, consistent, and scalable APIs using various architectural styles (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and adhering to microservices principles.
• Security Acumen: Deep knowledge of best practices for securing APIs, including robust understanding and implementation of authentication/authorization protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWTs.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Proficiency: Competency in leveraging cloud-native platforms, managing API gateways, and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation.
• Performance Engineering: Skill in defining non-functional requirements (NFRs) and implementing strategies for optimization, caching, rate limiting, and overall system reliability and scalability.
• Integration Expertise: The ability to design solutions that seamlessly integrate diverse software systems, applications, databases, and platforms.
• Strategic Positioning: The capability to define a clear vision, establish enterprise-wide standards, and ensure governance throughout the API lifecycle.
• Proficiency in managing the entire API process, from planning and design reviews through testing, deployment, versioning, and eventual deprecation.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with product owners, developers, and stakeholders, providing technical leadership and mentorship while clearly articulating complex architectural decisions to non-technical audiences.
• The ability to define strategies for telemetry, monitoring API health and usage, and ensuring comprehensive, high-quality documentation for internal and external developers.
• Partnership: Effectively partners with business functions and the enterprise to leverage economies of scale meeting a complex set of needs and objectives with APIs.
• Cultural Adaptability: Values and consider the perspectives of diverse parties in a global context. Is a role model and organizational leader.
• Talent Cultivation: Is a talent magnet and has proven skills in nurturing and developing talent.
• Critical Thinking: Able to identify, anticipate and prevent businesses problems and match an appropriate solution; Demonstrates intellectual curiosity identifying or anticipating issues within the client base and the ability to match an optimal API solution.
• Decision Quality / Risk Mindset: Demonstrates good judgement and knows when to involve others; Uses data, logic, analysis, and experience to make evidence-based decisions.
• Learning Agility: Demonstrates a progressive growth mindset through an ability and willingness to learn from experiences and new situations; Applies past experience to proactively identify opportunities.

Benefits

• Health and Wellness: We offer a range of medical, dental and vision insurance plans, as well as mental health support and wellness initiatives to promote overall well-being.
• Retirement Savings: We offer retirement benefits options, which vary by location. In the U.S., our competitive 401(k) Plan offers a generous dollar-for-dollar Company matching contribution of up to 6% of eligible pay and a Company contribution equal to 3% of eligible pay (subject to annual IRS limits and Plan terms). These Company contributions vest immediately.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counseling services and resources are available to all employees.
• Matching charitable donations: Corebridge matches donations to tax-exempt organizations 1:1, up to $5,000.
• Volunteer Time Off: Employees may use up to 16 volunteer hours annually to support activities that enhance and serve communities where employees live and work.
• Paid Time Off: Eligible employees start off with at least 24 Paid Time Off (PTO) days so they can take time off for themselves and their families when they need it.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level