API Integration Architect

Upteam; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 157,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Upteam is seeking an API Integration Architect in Sydney to shape the integration strategy and API ecosystem for a growing technology product. This is a big-picture role defining how the product connects with partners, vendors and external platforms while establishing scalable standards.

You will own the API and integration architecture strategy, define patterns and API specs, maintain the API register, shape developer experience, and mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience across software, integration or enterprise architecture.
• Strong background in API and integration architecture.
• Experience with API management platforms such as Apigee, MuleSoft, Kong, Azure API Management or AWS API Gateway.
• Strong understanding of API security, integration patterns, event-driven architecture and data contracts.
• Experience working with external partners and commercial/customer-facing APIs.
• Strong strategic thinking and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using AI within integration or software development is highly desirable.
• Engineering background is welcomed; you should be comfortable going deep technically when required.

Responsibilities

• Own the API and integration architecture strategy.
• Define reusable integration patterns, standards and API specifications.
• Establish and maintain the API register / integration catalogue.
• Shape API portals, developer experience and partner onboarding.
• Design scalable integrations across APIs, events, data and partner systems.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering and external partners.
• Identify opportunities to use AI to accelerate integration development, mapping, documentation and testing.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers and architects.

Skills

API architecture

Integration architecture

Stakeholder management

AI in integration

Engineering mindset

Tools

Apigee

MuleSoft

Kong

Azure API Management

AWS API Gateway

Job description

We’re looking for a API Integration Architect to shape the integration strategy and API ecosystem for a growing technology product.

This is a big-picture architecture role where you’ll define how the product connects with partners, vendors and external platforms, while establishing the standards and architecture needed to scale integrations efficiently.

What you’ll do

• Own the API and integration architecture strategy.
• Define reusable integration patterns, standards and API specifications.
• Establish and maintain the API register / integration catalogue.
• Shape API portals, developer experience and partner onboarding.
• Design scalable integrations across APIs, events, data and partner systems.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering and external partners.
• Identify opportunities to use AI to accelerate integration development, mapping, documentation and testing.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers and architects.

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years’ experience across software, integration or enterprise architecture.
• Strong background in API and integration architecture.
• Experience with API management platforms such as Apigee, MuleSoft, Kong, Azure API Management or AWS API Gateway.
• Strong understanding of API security, integration patterns, event-driven architecture and data contracts.
• Experience working with external partners and commercial/customer-facing APIs.
• Strong strategic thinking and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using AI within integration or software development is highly desirable.
• Engineering background is welcomed - you should be comfortable going deep technically when required.

Why this role?

• This is an opportunity to shape the integration architecture at a strategic level, rather than simply designing individual integrations.
• You’ll have influence across API strategy, integration standards, partner connectivity, developer experience and AI-enabled integration, helping build a modern ecosystem that can scale.

Sydney | Hybrid - 3 days in office

$185K+ Super
Only for Sydney-based candidates with PR or Citizenship