Head of API Engineering

2 weeks ago

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines Nezda Global Full time

About the Role

This role sits at the center of the bank's digital architecture, leading the engineering teams that design, build, and scale the enterprise API platform. The Head of API Engineering drives API standardization, platform reliability, reusability, and governance across all business units. You'll partner closely with Architecture, Security, Channels, Core Banking, and Digital Product teams to ensure APIs enable faster, safer, and more modular delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end API engineering roadmap for the bank, ensuring uptime, scalability, and future-readiness of the platform.
  • Lead API design, development, deployment, and lifecycle management across microservices and integration layers.
  • Establish and enforce API standards, versioning practices, reusability principles, and common patterns (REST, event-driven, GraphQL where applicable).
  • Drive adoption of API governance frameworks like
    BIAN
    , OpenAPI standards, and domain-driven design.
  • Oversee the API developer portal, documentation frameworks, sandbox environments, and onboarding journeys for internal teams and external partners.
  • Partner with InfoSec to ensure all APIs meet strong authentication, authorization, and data protection standards (OAuth2.0, JWT, mTLS, zero-trust design).
  • Manage engineering teams, vendors, and partners delivering API and integration services.
  • Build performance monitoring capabilities, analytics, throttling policies, and SLA definitions for all services.
  • Champion reusability — identify reusable services, common components, accelerators, and reference architectures.
  • Drive modernization of legacy integrations into modern microservices/API-first designs.
  • Provide technical leadership during incident resolution, capacity planning, and platform scaling.
  • Report platform KPIs, reliability metrics, and API adoption dashboards to leadership.

Must-Have Qualifications

  • 15–20 years of overall experience, with at least 8–10 years in API platforms, integration engineering, or digital engineering leadership.
  • Strong background in
    banking or financial services
    (mandatory).
  • Hands-on experience with:
  • API gateways (Apigee, Kong, Mulesoft, WSO2, IBM API Connect, Axway)
  • Microservices architecture (Java/Spring Boot/Node)
  • API security frameworks (OAuth2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS)
  • Event-driven architecture (Kafka, MQ, Pulsar)
  • Deep understanding of
    BIAN
    standards, domain models, and service landscape guidelines.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud-native development (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
  • Experience managing engineering teams, partner vendors, and enterprise-scale API programs.
  • Proven ability to set engineering standards, define frameworks, and drive organization-wide API adoption.

Good-to-Have

  • Experience in open banking ecosystems and partner onboarding.
  • Exposure to ISO 20022 messaging, payments integration, or card systems.
  • Certification in enterprise architecture (TOGAF), BIAN, or cloud platforms.
  • Experience implementing DevSecOps pipelines for API development.

Key Leadership Competencies

  • Strong stakeholder management — technology, business, regulators, and vendors.
  • Ability to simplify complex architectural problems and guide engineering decisions.
  • Excellent communication skills; can translate architecture into actionable engineering.
  • Strategic thinker with a builder mindset — frameworks, accelerators, reusable assets.

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