Senior API & Data Integration Architect

Empower Retirement; Greenwood Village (CO); On-site; USD 114,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Empower Retirement seeks a Senior Integration Architect (Data & APIs) to design and evolve enterprise integration architecture across real-time systems. You will guide API-first and event-driven patterns, define data contracts, and mentor teams to build secure, scalable integrations.

Located in a professional office, you will partner with enterprise architects and business leaders to modernize legacy platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable integration solutions across distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of API-based system design and modern integration approaches.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging concepts.
• Experience defining and managing interfaces or data exchange patterns across systems.
• Understanding of distributed system reliability.
• Experience with legacy and modern systems in complex enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in backend or service-based development using Java, Python, or similar languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement API-first and event-driven architectures for scalable real-time communication.
• Architect integration patterns including RESTful, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven workflows.
• Define and enforce data contracts, schemas, and interfaces for reliable data exchange.
• Design resilient distributed systems addressing retries, duplicates, and fault tolerance.
• Lead modernization of legacy integrations to reduce point-to-point dependencies.
• Establish API lifecycle management, versioning, security, and governance.
• Provide architectural leadership through reviews, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

API-first design

Event-driven architecture

Architectural leadership

Mentoring engineers

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS or related field

Tools

Apigee

Kong

AWS API Gateway

Azure API Management

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

Job description

Empower Retirement seeks a Senior Integration Architect (Data & APIs) to design and evolve enterprise integration architecture across real-time systems. You will guide API-first and event-driven patterns, define data contracts, and mentor teams to build secure, scalable integrations.

Located in a professional office, you will partner with enterprise architects and business leaders to modernize legacy platforms.