Technical Lead (Senior API Developer)

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Technical Strategy

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical vision and architectural direction across multiple engineering initiatives.
• Mentor, coach, and develop Systems Analysts and Software Engineers, fostering engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Promote a culture of clean architecture, software craftsmanship, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Serve as the highest technical escalation point for complex design, development, and production issues.

Delivery Leadership

• Lead the planning and successful execution of 2–5 concurrent projects, balancing competing priorities while ensuring alignment with strategic product roadmaps.
• Partner with Product Owners to refine requirements, estimate technical complexity, and translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Collaborate closely with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure architectural consistency across platforms.
• Identify technical risks early and proactively implement mitigation strategies.

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Architecture, API Engineering & Enterprise Integration

API & Microservices Architecture

• Design, review, and evolve highly available, secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices.
• Establish enterprise API design standards covering versioning, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Drive API-first and domain-driven architecture principles across engineering teams.

Enterprise & Financial Systems Integration

• Lead complex integrations with internal platforms, financial systems, payment gateways, and third-party service providers.
• Design secure transformation, orchestration, and routing of financial and transactional messages while ensuring data integrity, resiliency, and regulatory compliance.
• Optimize integration performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Champion cloud-native architecture and modern infrastructure practices across engineering teams.
• Continuously improve developer experience by enhancing cloud tooling, deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform self-service capabilities.
• Advocate Infrastructure as Code (IaC), immutable infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration best practices.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and operational resilience within cloud environments.

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Software Engineering Excellence & GitOps Governance

Engineering Standards

• Define, maintain, and continuously improve software engineering standards, coding conventions, architecture guidelines, and secure development practices.
• Promote Clean Code principles, SOLID design, secure coding standards, and maintainable software architecture.

Git Workflow & Version Control Governance

• Define and govern Git branching strategies, release workflows, and code promotion models aligned with GitOps principles.
• Standardize release management processes, semantic versioning, artifact lifecycle management, and deployment traceability.

Commit Quality & Repository Hygiene

• Enforce atomic commits with meaningful Conventional Commit messages.

• Implement automated pre-commit validation, including:

  • Code formatting
  • Static code analysis
  • Secret detection
  • Dependency vulnerability scanning
  • Linting
  • Unit test validation

Pull Request Governance

• Establish rigorous pull request policies requiring:

  • Mandatory peer code reviews
  • Architectural compliance validation
  • Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
  • Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
  • Automated quality gates
  • Successful unit, integration, and regression test execution prior to approval

CI/CD & Deployment Automation

• Lead continuous integration and continuous deployment initiatives.

• Govern deployment pipelines from development through staging, UAT, and production.

• Oversee automated:

  • Artifact publishing
  • Version tagging
  • Release promotion
  • Smoke testing
  • Sanity validation
  • Rollback procedures

• Continuously improve deployment reliability, speed, and traceability through GitOps automation.

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Quality Engineering, Reliability & Operational Excellence

Engineering Quality

• Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), integration testing, contract testing, and automated regression testing.
• Ensure comprehensive deployment validation across environments prior to production releases.
• Continuously improve software quality metrics, test coverage, and engineering confidence.

Observability & Platform Reliability

• Design and implement comprehensive observability strategies utilizing:

  • Centralized logging
  • Distributed tracing
  • Metrics collection
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Alerting
  • Performance dashboards

• Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Continuously improve platform availability, resiliency, and operational performance.

Incident & Production Management

• Serve as the primary technical lead during high-severity production incidents.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive proactive monitoring, automated remediation, capacity planning, and resilience engineering to minimize operational risk.

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Continuous Improvement & Engineering Innovation

• Evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and engineering tools to improve platform capabilities.
• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud-native adoption, microservices evolution, platform automation, and DevSecOps maturity.
• Promote continuous optimization of engineering workflows, deployment velocity, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Establish engineering metrics and KPIs to measure software quality, delivery performance, platform stability, and customer impact.