Senior Enterprise API & Automation Engineer

Cogent Bank; Florida; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cogent Bank in Lake Mary, FL seeks a Senior Applications & Integration Engineer to design, develop, integrate, automate, and support enterprise technology solutions across the organization. This hands-on role covers API design, data exchange, workflow automation, and production integrations, collaborating with business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and well-documented systems.

The position supports Operations, Retail and Commercial Banking, Treasury, Compliance, and IT, advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software development, API development, or systems integration.
• Hands-on experience supporting enterprise applications and production integrations.
• Ability to translate business requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Experience with change management, SDLC, testing, and documentation processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication with stakeholders.
• Experience in banking, financial services, fintech, or regulated industries.
• Experience with core banking, digital banking, treasury management, CRM, fraud, BSA/AML, and reporting systems.
• Experience with ACH, wire transfers, real-time payments, FedNow, card processing, payments operations.
• Experience with fintech and embedded finance partner integrations, API connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain custom business applications and internal tools.
• Build web portals, dashboards, reporting platforms, backend services, APIs, and data-processing solutions.
• Participate in requirements gathering, solution design, testing, release management, documentation, and ongoing support.
• Design and implement integrations between internal banking systems, third-party applications, fintech platforms, and cloud services.
• Build and maintain REST, SOAP, SFTP, file-based, batch, and event-driven integrations.
• Develop reusable integration services, middleware components, data mappings, validation controls, monitoring, and error-handling processes.
• Troubleshoot production integration failures, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate remediation with vendors and internal teams.
• Design, develop, document, secure, test, and maintain enterprise APIs.
• Support integrations involving core banking, digital banking, treasury management, CRM, fraud, BSA/AML, payment, data, and fintech platforms.
• Collaborate with vendors and business stakeholders to define technical requirements, interface specifications, authentication methods, data contracts, and testing plans.
• Support partner onboarding and connectivity while maintaining appropriate access controls, logging, resiliency, and operational documentation.
• Analyze business processes and identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and strengthen operational controls.
• Build workflow automations using Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, PowerShell, scheduled processes, and custom services.
• Create sustainable automation solutions with documented ownership, exception handling, monitoring, testing, and support procedures.
• Measure and communicate automation outcomes, including cycle-time reduction, control improvements, and operational efficiency.
• Develop operational reports, dashboards, data extracts, transformation processes, and system-to-system data flows.
• Partner with business teams to define meaningful metrics, data quality checks, reconciliation requirements, and reporting needs.
• Support enterprise data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence initiatives.
• Ensure data handling aligns with Bank security, privacy, retention, and access requirements.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to business and technology stakeholders.
• Lead technical workstreams for application implementations, integrations, modernization efforts, and vendor-delivered solutions.
• Evaluate new technologies and provide practical recommendations based on security, supportability, cost, scalability, and business value.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members while remaining a hands-on individual contributor.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, support runbooks, interface inventories, troubleshooting guides, and implementation documentation.
• Follow secure coding, secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability management, logging, change management, and deployment standards.
• Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, vendor evaluations, testing, audit support, and regulatory examinations as needed.
• Ensure solutions align with Bank information security policies, data governance requirements, business continuity expectations, and applicable regulatory obligations.
• Promptly identify, document, elevate, and remediate application and integration risks.
• Ensures BSA compliance by reading and being familiar with the BSA/AML program/policy; following all BSA/AML/OFAC policies and procedures; and completing all BSA/AML/OFAC related online courses.
• All other tasks, responsibilities, or duties, as directed by management.

Skills

Strong communication

Banking domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

C#

.NET/.NET Core

Python

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

REST APIs

SOAP

JSON

XML

SFTP

SQL Server

T-SQL

ETL

Power BI

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Cogent Bank in Lake Mary, FL seeks a Senior Applications & Integration Engineer to design, develop, integrate, automate, and support enterprise technology solutions across the organization. This hands-on role covers API design, data exchange, workflow automation, and production integrations, collaborating with business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and well-documented systems.

The position supports Operations, Retail and Commercial Banking, Treasury, Compliance, and IT, advancing