Senior Director, API Platform & Engineering

BECU; South Carolina; Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Company Match (up to 3%)

4% annual contribution to your 401(k)

Medical, Dental and Vision (family)

PTO Program + Exchange Program

Tuition Reimbursement Program

BECU Cares volunteer time off + donate

Job summary

BECU, a leading financial institution with 1.5 million members, seeks a Sr. Manager, Technology – API Platform to drive API strategy and platform delivery across channels. You’ll lead engineering teams, shape roadmaps, and ensure scalable, secure APIs built in C#/.NET on Azure, with GraphQL for reads and REST for writes.

This role blends technology leadership with business impact. Remote or onsite, you’ll help modernize our API-driven landscape while delivering value for members, partners, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of people leader experience. Experience leading technology teams.
• Minimum 5 years of information technology experience with demonstrated expertise in application design and API driven or integration focused architectures.
• Experience building technology platforms and teams preferably in environments leveraging modern APIs, microservices, cloud native services, or integration frameworks.
• Domain experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Infrastructure/Operations and/or financial products experience (i.e. Credit Card, Mortgage, Auto Loan, Deposits, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Own Delivery & Execution for API Platform Outcomes: Own delivery and execution for API platform outcomes, ensuring alignment to leadership direction, including priorities, and architectural guardrails.
• Align Technology with Business Goals: Use your deep understanding of business processes to shape technology strategies, helping create business cases, cost/benefit analyses, and roadmaps that support organizational objectives.
• Identify Innovative Solutions: Scan the market for modern tools and capabilities, leading RFPs, project charters, and business cases that bring innovation to life.
• Develop and Coach Teams: Mentor, guide, and elevate your team through ongoing coaching, performance conversations, and skill building opportunities that cultivate a high-performing engineering ‑culture. Building opportunities that cultivate a high-performing engineering culture.
• Build High Impact Teams: Foster a culture grounded in quality, agility, and continuous learning—encouraging your team to explore emerging technologies and modern software development practices.
• Manage Technical Delivery: Lead engineering initiatives, oversee technical requirements, and support continuous delivery teams to ensure strong execution across products and platforms, including scalable, secure APIs built in C#/.NET on Azure (GraphQL for reads and REST for writes).
• Champion Agile Practices: Collaborate with cross-functional partners to embed agile principles, streamline processes, and align product and technology lifecycle outcomes.
• Drive Engineering Best Practices: Advance quality across the software lifecycle—from requirements to code standards to CI/CD automation— including consistency in API contracts, versioning, error handling, performance, and backward compatibility.
• Align Roadmaps and Outcomes: Partner with business units to connect technology capabilities with strategic, operational, and tactical priorities.
• Engage in Governance & Planning: Participate in business and tech governance forums, lending your expertise to planning cycles and initiative reviews.
• Support Annual Planning: Contribute to operational plans and ensure new or evolving initiatives have full financial planning, including infrastructure considerations.
• Oversee Vendor Partnerships: Review SOWs and contracts while guiding external partners to deliver value across assigned projects and workstream.
• AI-Enabled Engineering: Promote the responsible use of AI-enabled tools and practices to improve software development, engineering productivity, and API platform outcomes.

Skills

People leadership

Tech team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related

Tools

Azure

GraphQL

REST

CI/CD

Job description

BECU, a leading financial institution with 1.5 million members, seeks a Sr. Manager, Technology – API Platform to drive API strategy and platform delivery across channels. You’ll lead engineering teams, shape roadmaps, and ensure scalable, secure APIs built in C#/.NET on Azure, with GraphQL for reads and REST for writes.

This role blends technology leadership with business impact. Remote or onsite, you’ll help modernize our API-driven landscape while delivering value for members, partners, and