Third Party API - Technical Lead

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the API product vision and roadmap aligned to Enterprise Architecture, Data, and Integration strategies.
• Act as technical product owner and lead for enterprise and 3PD APIs, balancing technical scalability with business outcomes.
• Possess strong hands-on experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs and integration solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Translate business needs into clear technical requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring delivery readiness.
• Provide technical leadership across the API lifecycle, including design reviews, integration patterns, error handling, and performance considerations.
• Guide teams on API standards, best practices, and governance, including versioning, documentation, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate closely with Security, Architecture, Data Engineering, and SRE teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise risk, compliance, and reliability expectations.
• Monitor and optimize API usage, performance, and adoption, using metrics to inform roadmap and prioritization.
• Support future-state API and ecosystem capabilities, including event-driven integrations, data sharing, and partner enablement.
• Partner with Reliability Engineering teams to ensure API’s meet enterprise availability, resiliency, observability and recoverability expectations.
• Support incident response, rootcause analysis, and continuous improvement related to API failures and data quality issues.
• Define and maintain the 3PD API roadmap aligned with business priorities and enterprise strategy.
• Prioritize features, enhancements, and technical debt based on business value, risk reduction, and scalability needs.
• Own API intake, backlog grooming, and iteration planning.

Qualifications

• Experience Leveraging AI to improve our products and services.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, integration, or API development, with at least 3 years in a Technical Product Owner or Technical Lead role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs and integration solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience working with API gateways, security models (OAuth, JWT, mTLS), and integration patterns.
• Proven ability to operate at the intersection of business, product, and engineering, translating strategy into execution.
• Experience working with third-party data providers, vendors, or external partners.
• Strong understanding of cloud-based architectures (AWS preferred) and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.