Senior API-First Integration Architect: Real-Time Data

Empower; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Senior Integration Architect (Data & APIs) to design enterprise integration patterns and drive API-first, event-driven architectures across the organization. You will mentor teams, define data contracts, and lead modernization to reduce point-to-point integrations while ensuring reliability, security, and governance across distributed systems.

Based in the United States, this role partners with enterprise architects and business leaders to deliver scalable, real-time

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable integration across distributed systems.
• Understanding of API-first and event-driven approaches.
• Ability to define data contracts and interface standards.
• Experience with modern messaging systems and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design API-first and event-driven architectures for real-time communication.
• Architect REST/gRPC patterns and asynchronous messaging across systems.
• Define data contracts, schemas, and interface standards.
• Lead modernization of legacy integrations and improve resilience.
• Provide architectural leadership through reviews and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Scalable integration design

API-based system design

Event-driven architectures

Data contract definition

Distributed systems reliability

Mentoring engineering teams

API lifecycle governance

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

Apigee

Kong

AWS API Gateway

Azure API Management

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

Job description

Empower is seeking a Senior Integration Architect (Data & APIs) to design enterprise integration patterns and drive API-first, event-driven architectures across the organization. You will mentor teams, define data contracts, and lead modernization to reduce point-to-point integrations while ensuring reliability, security, and governance across distributed systems.

Based in the United States, this role partners with enterprise architects and business leaders to deliver scalable, real-time