API Technical Lead

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Your Role

The API Technical Lead provides technical leadership for the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of APIs and integration solutions within an Agile squad. The role ensures alignment with enterprise architecture, API governance, security standards, and engineering best practices while driving delivery quality and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable API and integration solutions aligned with business and architectural requirements.
• Lead API development, provide technical guidance, and enforce design and coding standards.
• Govern architecture, API lifecycle management, integration patterns, and technology decisions.
• Support Agile delivery through backlog refinement, technical estimation, sprint planning, and risk management.
• Ensure solution quality through code reviews, automated testing, security, performance, scalability, and reliability practices.
• Drive DevOps, CI/CD, release management, monitoring, observability, and production support.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and reusable frameworks.

Key Deliverables

• API and Integration Design Reviews
• Technical Specifications
• Code Review Reports
• CI/CD Standards
• Non-Functional Requirements Assessments
• Technical Risk Assessments
• Production Readiness Reviews

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering and integration experience.
• 3+ years in a Technical Lead or Solution Lead role.
• Experience delivering APIs, microservices, enterprise integrations, and Agile projects.
• Proven leadership of cross-functional and distributed teams.

Technical Skills

• REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, API Lifecycle Management, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, SOA, and Integration Patterns.
• API platforms such as MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, or Azure API Management.
• Cloud and DevOps: Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Engineering practices including Secure Coding, Test Automation, DevSecOps, Observability, Performance Optimization, and Release Management.
• Key Competencies Technical Leadership, API Design, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving, Governance, Collaboration, Continuous Improvement, and Engineering Excellence.
• Preferred Certifications MuleSoft, API Design, TOGAF, Agile/Scrum, SAFe, or BIAN certifications.

What you’ll like about working here

• We promote Diversity & Inclusion as we believe diversity of thought fuels excellence and innovation.
• In Capgemini, we enable people to be the architects of their career growth. We equip people in augmenting their potential by providing wide array of career growth programs that empower them to get the future they want.
• Capgemini cultivates impactful experiences for its people that would aid in bringing out the best in them for them, for the company, and for their clients.