Senior API Platform & AI Gateway Delivery Lead

Huntington National Bank; Minnetonka (MN); On-site; USD 93,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

Huntington National Bank is seeking an experienced technology leader to drive the API Gateway and Developer Portal platforms, ensuring secure, scalable delivery across the enterprise. You will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and AI engineering to define roadmaps and deliver end-to-end API capabilities.

This role focuses on reliability, performance, and developer experience, guiding teams to reduce toil, improve observability, and enable AI-enabled services at scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of technology experience with at least 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
• Proven experience leading software engineering, platform engineering, or shared technology teams.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and operating highly available enterprise platforms and services.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Apigee X, including policy development, traffic management, security, observability, and analytics.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth 2.0, JWT, API security, and API governance best practices.
• Experience with developer portal technologies such as ReadMe, Apigee Developer Portal, or equivalent developer enablement platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), and modern observability practices.
• Strong understanding of platform operations, service reliability, incident management, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, architecture, product management, security, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for Huntington's Apigee-based API Gateway and Developer Portal, supporting critical enterprise capabilities 24x7x365.
• Be accountable for end-to-end technology delivery execution, including staffing, planning, engineering execution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across assigned platforms.
• Develop and execute the long-term strategy and roadmap for Huntington's API Gateway, Developer Portal, and related platform capabilities in partnership with Product Management, Architecture, and Security.
• Achieve outstanding availability, reliability, scalability, resiliency, and performance through proactive engineering, automation, observability, and operational discipline.
• Own platform health, service delivery, operational readiness, incident management, and disaster recovery preparedness for supported services.
• Collaborate with architecture, product management, security, and engineering teams to ensure a well-defined and executable roadmap that aligns with enterprise priorities.
• Own the full API lifecycle, including onboarding, governance, security controls, monitoring, analytics, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Champion developer experience by making the Developer Portal the enterprise destination for API discovery, onboarding, documentation, testing, and integration enablement.
• Drive platform adoption through developer engagement, standards, training, documentation, and enablement activities.
• Work closely with product managers, architects, and security teams to build a best-in-class API ecosystem that enables internal agility and external connectivity.
• Partner with architecture, product management, security, and AI engineering teams to support the evolution of Huntington's AI Gateway capabilities, helping establish secure, governed, and scalable access to approved AI services across the enterprise.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence by coaching engineers, promoting modern engineering practices, and encouraging innovation, automation, and continuous learning.
• Establish and monitor operational, reliability, and adoption metrics that demonstrate platform value, service quality, engineering efficiency, and business impact.
• Responsible for financial transparency across IT, including platform operations, initiatives, forecasting, and resource planning.
• Evaluate and validate business drivers and priorities and communicate delivery roadmaps, in partnership with Product Managers and Product Owners, across the organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Apigee X

REST APIs

OpenAPI/Swagger

OAuth 2.0 / JWT

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Platform operations

Incident management

Developer experience

Leadership/management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng/IT

Tools

ReadMe

Apigee Developer Portal

Job description

Huntington National Bank is seeking an experienced technology leader to drive the API Gateway and Developer Portal platforms, ensuring secure, scalable delivery across the enterprise. You will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and AI engineering to define roadmaps and deliver end-to-end API capabilities.

This role focuses on reliability, performance, and developer experience, guiding teams to reduce toil, improve observability, and enable AI-enabled services at scale