API Platform Architect & Standards Lead

Lincoln Financial; Radnor (Delaware County); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career tracks

Leadership training

PTO/Parental leave

401K

Financial counseling

Tuition assistance

Hybrid work model

Productivity tools

Job summary

Lincoln Financial seeks a Platform Standards & API Lead to translate target cloud and AI architecture into enforceable engineering standards, governed APIs, and self-service tooling. You will own the API lifecycle and data contracts, ensuring secure access and governance across teams and vendors.

Responsibilities include establishing guardrails, building tooling, and driving root-cause fixes for pattern-level improvements, while mentoring platform engineers and reporting trends to leadership.

Qualifications

• Requires 5+ years in API/platform architecture roles with documented standards artifacts.
• Experience with data-contract patterns, schema governance, and enterprise REST API design.

Responsibilities

• Author and maintain platform data/API engineering standards across the full API lifecycle.
• Own Data Contracts standard for publish/consume models and API governance.
• Establish governance for secure access to enterprise data and models with MCP patterns.
• Define guardrails to prevent data leakage and unsafe AI/GenAI use.
• Build self-service tooling (templates, onboarding, schema validation, observability).
• Own intake and triage for standards violations and API incidents; drive root-cause fixes.
• Report adoption, API health, and incident trends to leadership.
• Collaborate with governance to satisfy policy requirements.
• Mentor engineers on API design and standards adoption.

Skills

API architecture

Platform architecture

Data contracts

REST API design

Python

Cloud data services

Governance patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Bedrock

AgentCore

MCP

AWS Glue

Athena

Job description

Lincoln Financial seeks a Platform Standards & API Lead to translate target cloud and AI architecture into enforceable engineering standards, governed APIs, and self-service tooling. You will own the API lifecycle and data contracts, ensuring secure access and governance across teams and vendors.

Responsibilities include establishing guardrails, building tooling, and driving root-cause fixes for pattern-level improvements, while mentoring platform engineers and reporting trends to leadership.