API & Integration Engineer – Finance
Client: Financial Services
Interview: Telephonic & Webcam
Work Location: Hybrid Onsite – Iselin, NJ (Remote may be considered for exceptional candidates)
Employment Type: Corp-to-Corp (C2C)
Eligibility: Candidates who donot require Sponshorship
Experience Required: 10+ Years
Need Ling term Finance Experience as Mandatory
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior API & Integration Engineer with extensive hands-on experience in enterprise API management, middleware integration, and cloud-native integration platforms. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in MuleSoft or other leading API & Integration platforms, enterprise integration architecture, and long-term Financial Services projects.
The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-grade API and integration solutions while partnering with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Data Engineering, and Business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing integrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise integration solutions using modern API and middleware platforms such as MuleSoft, IBM API Connect, Apigee, Boomi, TIBCO, or similar enterprise integration tools.
- Build scalable RESTful and GraphQL APIs and reusable integration services.
- Design enterprise integration patterns including API, messaging, event-driven, file transfer (MFT), and microservices architectures.
- Develop secure integrations with enterprise applications, cloud platforms, databases, and third-party systems.
- Implement enterprise security using OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, API Keys, and IAM best practices.
- Build highly available and scalable integration platforms on Kubernetes and container-based environments.
- Develop reusable connectors, orchestration services, error handling, retry mechanisms, and monitoring solutions.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to define API governance, standards, security policies, and best practices.
- Create architecture documents, technology impact assessments, and technical design documentation.
- Troubleshoot complex production integration issues across APIs, middleware, networking, and backend systems.
- Implement monitoring, logging, dashboards, alerting, and operational runbooks.
- Work closely with business teams, product owners, infrastructure, security teams, and third-party vendors throughout the project lifecycle.
Required Skills
- 10+ years of enterprise API & Integration experience.
- Extensive experience with MuleSoft or similar enterprise integration platforms such as Apigee, IBM API Connect, TIBCO, Boomi, Red Hat Fuse, Software AG webMethods, or equivalent.
- Strong experience designing enterprise API architectures and integration solutions.
- Hands-on experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux environments.
- Experience with OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, API security, and Identity & Access Management.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, and enterprise messaging systems.
- Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases and distributed systems.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, LogicMonitor, or equivalent.
- Excellent troubleshooting, architecture, and communication skills.
Preferred Experience
- Strong Financial Services/Banking domain experience is mandatory.
- Experience working on large-scale, long-term enterprise financial transformation projects.
- Experience collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Data Engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of API governance, security, compliance, scalability, and enterprise integration best practices.