Engineering Capability Leader - API

Frost Bank • San Antonio, TX

12h

About The Position

As an Engineering Capability Leader - API at Frost, you are a subject matter expert, bringing together various technical areas to assist in the creation of new systems. 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.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, in a related field, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to develop technical solutions, typically requiring a minimum of 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
• Deep understanding of operational reliability, identifying issues and designing solutions for the biggest and most complex programs and systems at the bank
• Experience synthesizing and directing engineering standards and platform adoption across multiple teams
• Proven ability to lead a team
• Current knowledge of emerging market trends, development methodologies, and development frameworks that improve application security, such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and mTLS
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, service-based architectures, and integration patterns

Nice To Haves

• Background in financial services, payments, or other highly regulated industries
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing API developer portals and enterprise API catalogs
• Working knowledge of event‑driven architectures and streaming technologies such as Kafka
• Experience integrating APIs across cloud‑native and microservices‑based platforms
• Proven support for open banking initiatives and partner integration ecosystems
• Experience developing API analytics and usage insights to inform platform evolution
• Experience applying DevSecOps practices to automate and govern the API lifecycle

Responsibilities

• 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 standards for API design, error handling, security controls, and performance management
• Collaborate with and provide technical advice to Product Owners, Business Analysts, Software Engineers, and lines of business to estimate level-of-effort, timing, and feasibility, to design new systems based on program requirements, and to optimize system and program functionality
• Implement strong API governance covering authentication, authorization, encryption, and threat protection
• Provide strategic thought leadership while ensuring a tactical execution and implementation of initiatives
• Always take action using Integrity, Caring, and Excellence to achieve all-win outcomes

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Generous holiday and paid time off schedule
• Tuition reimbursement
• Extensive health and wellness programs, including our Employee Assistance Program
• Referral bonus program

What This Job Offers

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