Head of API Engineering & Enterprise Integration

BDO Unibank; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO Unibank, Inc. seeks a Head of API Engineering to ensure API practices, delivery frameworks, and designs align with enterprise guardrails, integration standards, and modernization objectives. The role leads vendor and internal teams to build scalable, secure APIs across channels.

You will drive BIAN service domains mapping, establish reusable patterns, and oversee governance, testing, and compliance. This onsite position in Ortigas requires deep API and integration experience, leadership

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience in software engineering, integration, or API development.
• At least 3–5 years in engineering leadership, managing development teams or large-scale integration programs.
• Strong experience implementing API platforms, service orchestration, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Background in BIAN framework, domain-driven design, or financial services integration is a strong advantage.
• Must be willing to work onsite and be assigned in Ortigas.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the engineering capability required to implement and maintain BIAN Service Domains across all channels and consuming systems.
• Drive the delivery of reusable, standardized, secure, and scalable APIs aligned to BIAN specifications and the bank’s integration architecture.
• Leading and managing both internal engineering teams and third-party managed service providers, ensuring optimal productivity, quality, and utilization.
• Ensuring all API-related solutions meet the expected target state architecture, quality gates, non-functional requirements, and regulatory compliance.
• Governing API implementation activities across multiple business and technology programs.
• Guiding engineering teams on modern API development practices, DevSecOps, microservices, and cloud-native patterns.

Skills

APIs

API platforms

Microservices

Enterprise integration

BIAN framework

Domain-driven design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology

Job description

BDO Unibank, Inc. seeks a Head of API Engineering to ensure API practices, delivery frameworks, and designs align with enterprise guardrails, integration standards, and modernization objectives. The role leads vendor and internal teams to build scalable, secure APIs across channels.

You will drive BIAN service domains mapping, establish reusable patterns, and oversee governance, testing, and compliance. This onsite position in Ortigas requires deep API and integration experience, leadership