API Technical Lead

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YOUR ROLE

The API Technical Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership and oversight for the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of APIs and integration services delivered by an Agile API Squad. The role ensures solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture standards, API governance principles, security requirements, and engineering best practices.

Working closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, API Designers, Architects, Developers, QA Engineers, and DevOps teams, the Technical Lead drives technical decision-making, solution quality, delivery predictability, and continuous improvement across the squad.

Technical Leadership & Solution Design

• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Define solution components, integration patterns, and API service interactions.
• Ensure designs align with enterprise architecture, security, performance, and operational standards.
• Review and approve technical designs, API specifications, and implementation approaches.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for the squad.

API Development Oversight

• Lead API development activities across the squad.
• Provide technical guidance to developers throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure adherence to API design standards and coding best practices.
• Drive implementation consistency across multiple APIs and services.
• Review complex technical solutions and support resolution of development challenges.
• Promote reuse of existing APIs, frameworks, and accelerators.

Architecture & Integration Governance

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects to align squad deliverables with target-state architecture.
• Ensure compliance with API lifecycle governance and architecture standards.
• Evaluate technology options, integration approaches, and platform capabilities.
• Participate in architecture reviews, design authority forums, and governance checkpoints.
• Support API catalog, versioning, and lifecycle management practices.

Agile Delivery Support

• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and technical story decomposition.
• Ensure technical readiness of backlog items before sprint execution.
• Work closely with the Scrum Master to manage technical risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Assist the Product Owner in evaluating technical feasibility and delivery impacts.
• Drive delivery predictability through proactive planning and technical oversight.

Quality Engineering & Security

• Establish engineering standards and quality controls within the squad.

• Conduct code reviews and technical design reviews.

• Ensure compliance with non-functional requirements, including:

  • Security
  • Scalability
  • Performance
  • Reliability
  • Availability

• Drive automated testing, code quality analysis, and secure coding practices.

• Support vulnerability remediation and technical debt management.

DevOps & Release Management

• Partner with DevOps teams to establish CI/CD practices and deployment automation.
• Ensure release readiness and production deployment success.
• Support environment strategy, configuration management, and release governance.
• Drive observability, monitoring, logging, and operational support requirements.
• Participate in production issue resolution and root cause analysis when required.

Team Development & Mentoring

• Mentor developers and engineers within the squad.
• Promote engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Support capability development, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to reusable patterns, accelerators, templates, and best practices.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture within Agile teams.

Key Deliverables

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

YOUR PROFILE

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.

Experience

• 8+ years of software engineering and integration experience.
• 3+ years in a Technical Lead or Solution Lead role.
• Experience delivering APIs, microservices, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Experience leading distributed and cross-functional technology teams.

Technical Skills

API & Integration Technologies

• REST APIs
• OpenAPI / Swagger
• API Lifecycle Management
• Microservices Architecture
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

API Platforms

• MuleSoft
• Apigee
• Kong
• Azure API Management
• Similar API Gateway Platforms

Cloud & DevOps

• Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Kubernetes and Containers
• CI/CD Pipelines
• GitHub / GitLab
• Jenkins
• Infrastructure as Code

Engineering Practices

• Secure Coding
• Test Automation
• Performance Optimization
• Observability & Monitoring
• Release Management
• DevSecOps

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.

We are looking forward in meeting you!