Remote API & Data Integration Engineer

SkyePoint Decisions; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification incentive program

PTO

Floating federal holiday options

401k matched

Health insurance options

Job summary

SkyePoint Decisions seeks an Integration/API/Data Engineer to design and implement APIs and data-exchange components for a federal client. This remote, contingent role focuses on secure data movement across development, security, and ATO processes.

You will design RESTful interfaces, analyze data models, and enforce security, testing, and documentation standards while collaborating with security and data teams to ensure robust integrations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software/API engineering experience.
• Experience building APIs and data integrations in enterprise environments.
• Experience with API security, automated testing, source control, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Ability to troubleshoot cross-system data flow issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain RESTful APIs, services, interfaces, connectors, and integration components using customer-approved technologies.
• Analyze source and target systems, data models, interface requirements, dependencies, and error-handling needs.
• Implement secure data exchange, transformation, validation, orchestration, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Develop reusable integration services that support evidence collection, assessment workflows, analytics, policy enforcement, and decision support.
• Collaborate with security engineers to apply authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, logging, and secure-coding controls.
• Collaborate with data/analytics engineers to define schemas, mappings, data quality checks, lineage, and operational data requirements.
• Develop automated unit/integration tests, interface documentation, ADRs, runbooks, README content, and release notes.

Skills

API development

System interfaces

Data integration

CI/CD

Technical documentation

Security best practices

U.S. Citizenship required

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Job description

SkyePoint Decisions seeks an Integration/API/Data Engineer to design and implement APIs and data-exchange components for a federal client. This remote, contingent role focuses on secure data movement across development, security, and ATO processes.

You will design RESTful interfaces, analyze data models, and enforce security, testing, and documentation standards while collaborating with security and data teams to ensure robust integrations.