Senior API Architect — Remote Enterprise API Strategy Lead

More Link Innovation; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

More Link Innovation in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior API Architect to lead API strategy, governance, integration design, and platform modernization across enterprise applications and digital ecosystems.

The ideal candidate will establish scalable API standards, guide teams in designing high-quality APIs, and ensure APIs are secure, discoverable, and reusable while aligning with business and technology objectives.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale API architectures and integration platforms.
• Strong understanding of API design principles, REST, HTTP, JSON, and SOA.
• Experience with event-driven, asynchronous, messaging, webhook, and distributed integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of API gateways and API-management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee enterprise API architecture strategies aligned with business goals.
• Define API architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and guidelines.
• Establish enterprise API strategy covering internal, external, partner, and public APIs.
• Develop API roadmaps aligned with modernization, digital transformation, and integration priorities.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, high-performance APIs for enterprise apps and platforms.
• Define API boundaries, contracts, resources, operations, data structures, and interaction models.
• Establish standards for RESTful, event-driven, and asynchronous architectures.
• Define API design standards including naming, versioning, pagination, filtering, and error handling.
• Establish API documentation standards and ensure discoverability.
• Develop reusable API patterns, templates, and reference implementations.
• Lead API architecture reviews and provide guidance to engineering and integration teams.

Skills

API architecture

Enterprise integration

Distributed systems

Security (OAuth/OpenID)

Job description

More Link Innovation in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior API Architect to lead API strategy, governance, integration design, and platform modernization across enterprise applications and digital ecosystems.

The ideal candidate will establish scalable API standards, guide teams in designing high-quality APIs, and ensure APIs are secure, discoverable, and reusable while aligning with business and technology objectives.