Senior Azure API Developer/Technical Lead

Accenture Federal Services•Washington, DC

3d•$109,500 - $224,200

About The Position

Accenture Federal Services is hiring a Senior Azure API Developer/Technical Lead to lead hands-on development of Azure-native API components and guide other developers. The role involves building new APIs using an API-led approach and reusable assets, maintaining production APIs, and supporting the business users and application teams who depend on them. The position builds and maintains Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, using PowerShell and automation to promote validated, repeatable releases through environments, including production. It also covers REST API and technical design reviews, testing and defect resolution, performance tuning, and improvements to shared services for logging, error handling, monitoring, authentication, authorization, and auditing. The role coordinates on API and configuration issues with platform administrators and Microsoft support, collaborates with the product owner and architects on the backlog, and maintains design documentation, templates, guidance, and knowledge-base content. Approved AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot may be used to improve code quality, documentation, and security scanning.

Requirements

At least five years of API design and development experience.
Three years of experience in Azure integration technologies.
Proficiency in Azure DevOps.
Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines.
Proficiency in PowerShell.
Proficiency in REST API design.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Lead hands-on development of Azure-native API components, including custom API Management policies, .NET Core/C# services, and serverless Azure Functions; guide other developers.
Design and build Azure APIs for new business use cases using an API-led approach (System, Process, and Experience APIs), favoring reusable assets and frameworks.
Maintain and enhance existing production APIs and provide day-to-day support to business users and application teams.
Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and use PowerShell and automation to move releases through environments, including production, with validated and repeatable deployments.
Write and review REST API designs and technical designs, ensuring they meet functional and non-functional requirements, client standards, and Azure best practices.
Plan and support testing by creating and running test cases, supporting integration and user acceptance testing, running unit tests, and fixing defects.
Tune API and application performance and improve shared services for logging, error handling, monitoring, authentication, authorization, and auditing.
Triage and resolve API-related issues and configuration problems found during code migration.
Coordinate with platform administrators and Microsoft support regarding outages.
Work with the product owner and architects to shape the development backlog, document design details, and maintain API templates, guidance, and knowledge-base content.
Use approved AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve code quality, documentation, and security scanning.