Senior API & Data Integration Architect — Remote

Empower Retirement, LLC; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 114,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Volunteer time

BRGs

Parental leave

Job summary

Empower Retirement, LLC is seeking a Senior Integration Architect (Data & APIs) to lead enterprise integration design and modernization. You will drive API-first and event-driven patterns, define data contracts, and mentor teams for secure, scalable systems across legacy and modern platforms.

The role requires strong backend development experience (Java/Python) and proven ability to guide architecture reviews, governance, and cross-team collaboration in a large enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's in CS or related field as stated in the posting.
• Experience designing scalable integration solutions across distributed systems.
• Strong API-based system design and modern integration approaches.
• Familiar with event-driven architectures and messaging concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve API-first and event-driven architectures for real-time communication.
• Define and enforce data contracts, schemas, and interface standards.
• Architect integration patterns across RESTful/gRPC and messaging systems.
• Mentor engineering teams and lead modernization of legacy integrations.

Skills

API design

Event-driven architecture

REST/gRPC

Distributed systems

API lifecycle management

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Tools

Apigee

Kong

AWS API Gateway

Azure API Management

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

Job description

Empower Retirement, LLC is seeking a Senior Integration Architect (Data & APIs) to lead enterprise integration design and modernization. You will drive API-first and event-driven patterns, define data contracts, and mentor teams for secure, scalable systems across legacy and modern platforms.

The role requires strong backend development experience (Java/Python) and proven ability to guide architecture reviews, governance, and cross-team collaboration in a large enterprise environment.