API Technical Lead: Enterprise Platform & Governance

STATE STREET CORPORATION; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with match

Comprehensive insurance - life/medical

PTO & disability

Employee Assistance Program

Performance-based awards

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

State Street Corporation seeks an experienced API Technical Lead with 10+ years to own the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise APIs powering internal platforms, client integrations, and partner ecosystems. Lead architecture, standards, and cross‑team collaboration to ensure scalable, secure, and developer‑friendly APIs.

You will guide API lifecycle, enforce governance, collaborate with product, security, and platform teams, and mentor engineers while driving API modernization and

Qualifications

• Designing and delivering enterprise APIs.
• REST APIs with gRPC and event-driven patterns.
• Proficiency in Java, C# or similar backend tech.
• API gateways and service mesh expertise.
• Distributed systems and microservices knowledge.

Responsibilities

• API Architecture & Design: Own the API strategy and architecture (REST/gRPC/event‑driven as appropriate).
• Define and enforce API standards (naming, versioning, error handling, pagination).
• Design APIs for scalability, performance, and backward compatibility.
• Drive API‑first and contract‑driven development (OpenAPI/Swagger, schemas).
• Lead API lifecycle management: design → build → version → deprecate.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership for API development teams.
• Review designs and code to ensure quality, consistency, and best practices.
• Lead complex API initiatives and cross‑service integrations.
• Mentor engineers and raise the API engineering bar.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for API‑related issues.
• Ensure APIs meet enterprise security standards (authN/authZ, rate limiting, input validation).
• Integrate APIs with OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and centralized auth services.
• Define and implement API governance, approvals, and change management.
• Ensure observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and SLAs.
• Drive resiliency: throttling, circuit breakers, retries, and graceful degradation.
• Enable: Build and maintain API gateways, developer portals, and SDKs.
• Enable self‑service onboarding for internal and external consumers.
• Partner with product, security, SRE, and platform teams.
• Support internal, client, and partner integrations at scale.
• Integrate APIs with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Ensure production readiness, on‑call support, and incident response.

Skills

Enterprise APIs

REST APIs

gRPC

Java

C#

Distributed systems

Microservices

Service mesh

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

API testing

Tools

OpenAPI/Swagger

Git-based workflows

API gateways

Job description

State Street Corporation seeks an experienced API Technical Lead with 10+ years to own the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise APIs powering internal platforms, client integrations, and partner ecosystems. Lead architecture, standards, and cross‑team collaboration to ensure scalable, secure, and developer‑friendly APIs.

You will guide API lifecycle, enforce governance, collaborate with product, security, and platform teams, and mentor engineers while driving API modernization and