Senior API Architect – Azure Data Hub (Hands-On)

IT Minds LLC; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Minds LLC in Cary, NC seeks a hands-on API Architect to own the API layer end-to-end for our enterprise Azure Data Hub. The role blends architecture with development, focusing on contract-first design, OpenAPI standards, and scalable data interfaces.

Expect ~60% architecture/design and ~40% coding in Java with Spring Boot/WebFlux, Python automation, and cloud-native delivery, collaborating with architects, engineers, and system owners to deliver reliable, secure APIs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in API, integration, or backend engineering.
• 3+ years owning API architecture and design at enterprise scale.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, and Project Reactor.
• Deep knowledge of REST, OpenAPI, contract-first development, API versioning, pagination, error handling, and idempotency.
• Experience with large-file transfer patterns such as SFTP, signed URLs, multipart and resumable uploads.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end API architecture, including service boundaries, contracts, data models, error handling, and versioning.
• Design reusable API patterns for inbound/outbound interfaces, data exchange, file transfers, and synchronous/asynchronous workflows.
• Define OpenAPI standards, naming conventions, payload structures, backward compatibility, and contract-first development.
• Design reliable large-file transfer solutions using streaming, chunking, resumable transfers, signed URLs, and checksums.
• Make architecture decisions around synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, and bulk file interfaces.
• Design for scalability, resilience, backpressure, retries, idempotency, rate limiting, timeouts, and graceful degradation.
• Design and develop reactive Java services using Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, and Project Reactor.
• Apply non-blocking I/O, reactive streams, backpressure, and streaming for large payloads.
• Build reference services and reusable patterns for other engineering teams.
• Use Python for automation, testing, contract validation, load testing, and operational tooling.
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Design and deploy APIs using Azure App Service, AKS, or Azure Container Apps.
• Implement Azure API Management for gateway policies, throttling, subscriptions, and API management.
• Integrate APIs with ADLS Gen2 and enterprise data pipelines.
• Design asynchronous integrations using Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus, or Kafka.

Skills

API architecture

Java

Spring Boot

Spring WebFlux

Project Reactor

OpenAPI

Azure

OAuth2

Python

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

IT Minds LLC in Cary, NC seeks a hands-on API Architect to own the API layer end-to-end for our enterprise Azure Data Hub. The role blends architecture with development, focusing on contract-first design, OpenAPI standards, and scalable data interfaces.

Expect ~60% architecture/design and ~40% coding in Java with Spring Boot/WebFlux, Python automation, and cloud-native delivery, collaborating with architects, engineers, and system owners to deliver reliable, secure APIs.