Senior Azure API Developer & Tech Lead

accenturefederalservices; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Senior Azure API Developer/Technical Lead to drive hands-on development of Azure-native API components, including Azure API Management policies, .NET Core/C# services, and serverless Functions, while guiding other developers and sustaining production APIs.

You will design APIs using an API-led approach, maintain CI/CD pipelines with PowerShell automation across environments, and review REST designs per Azure best practices.

Qualifications

• At least five (5) years of API design and development experience.
• Three (3) years in Azure integration technologies.
• Proficient in Azure DevOps.
• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in PowerShell.
• Proficient in REST API design.

Responsibilities

• Direct the hands-on development of Azure-native API components, including custom APIM policies, .NET Core/C# services, and serverless Azure Functions, and guide the developers on the team.
• Design and build new APIs on the Azure platform for new business use cases, using an API-led approach and favoring existing reusable assets and frameworks.
• Maintain and enhance the client’s existing production APIs, and provide day-to-day help to business users and application teams.
• Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, using PowerShell and automation to move releases through environments with validated, repeatable deployments.
• Write and review REST API designs and technical designs.
• Ensure adherence to functional and non-functional requirements and Azure best practices.
• Plan and support testing: create and run test cases, support integration and user acceptance testing, run unit tests, and fix defects.
• Tune performance and improve shared services for logging, error handling, monitoring, authentication, authorization, and auditing.
• Triage and resolve API-related issues and configuration problems found during code migration.
• Coordinate with platform administrators and Microsoft support on outages.
• Work with product owner and architects to shape the backlog, document design details, and keep API templates and knowledge-base content current.
• Use approved AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve code quality, documentation, and security scanning.

Skills

API design and development

Azure integration technologies

CI/CD pipelines

REST API design

Tools

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Senior Azure API Developer/Technical Lead to drive hands-on development of Azure-native API components, including Azure API Management policies, .NET Core/C# services, and serverless Functions, while guiding other developers and sustaining production APIs.

You will design APIs using an API-led approach, maintain CI/CD pipelines with PowerShell automation across environments, and review REST designs per Azure best practices.