We're Hiring: Senior API Integration Specialist
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About UsWe are a globally focused organization committed to building reliable, scalable, and secure digital platforms that connect products, applications, services, partners, and business processes across diverse markets.
Our teams collaborate across Engineering, Architecture, Product, Cloud, Security, Data, Operations, and external technology partners to design and operate integration capabilities that enable seamless data exchange, process automation, and connected digital experiences.
The RoleWe are seeking an experienced Senior API Integration Specialist to design, implement, optimize, and govern API-based integrations across enterprise applications, cloud services, internal platforms, and external partners.
The ideal candidate will combine strong API engineering expertise with integration architecture, data transformation, security, troubleshooting, automation, and operational capabilities to deliver reliable and maintainable integrations across complex technology environments.
Key Responsibilities
- * Design and implement secure, scalable, and reliable API integrations across enterprise applications and platforms.
- Develop integration solutions using REST, SOAP, GraphQL, webhooks, event-driven APIs, and other appropriate integration patterns.
- Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into robust API integration solutions.
- Design integration flows, interface specifications, data mappings, transformation rules, and error-handling mechanisms.
- Develop and maintain API specifications using OpenAPI, Swagger, or equivalent standards.
- Integrate internal applications, SaaS platforms, cloud services, databases, data platforms, and external partner systems.
- Design synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns based on business, performance, and reliability requirements.
- Implement API-to-API, system-to-system, application-to-application, and service-to-service integrations.
- Develop reusable integration components, connectors, services, and integration frameworks.
- Implement data transformation, validation, enrichment, filtering, routing, and orchestration processes.
- Design integration solutions supporting JSON, XML, CSV, and other structured or semi-structured data formats.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, API keys, JWT, mutual TLS, and other applicable standards.
- Apply API security controls including rate limiting, access controls, encryption, input validation, threat protection, and credential management.
- Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams to assess and remediate API and integration security risks.
- Implement robust error handling, retry logic, timeout management, circuit breakers, idempotency, and recovery mechanisms.
- Design integrations for high availability, resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Monitor API performance, availability, latency, error rates, throughput, and transaction success rates.
- Implement API logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Investigate integration failures, data discrepancies, timeouts, authentication errors, service outages, and performance issues.
- Conduct root-cause analysis for recurring integration incidents and develop corrective actions.
- Support production incident management and provide technical troubleshooting for critical integration failures.
- Maintain integration runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, technical documentation, and operational guides.
- Coordinate integration deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Support CI/CD pipelines for API and integration services.
- Implement automated testing for API functionality, integration workflows, security, performance, and regression scenarios.
- Develop unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, and negative test cases for API solutions.
- Support user acceptance testing and coordinate defect resolution with business and technical stakeholders.
- Validate API contracts and ensure compatibility between consuming and providing systems.
- Manage API versioning, backward compatibility, lifecycle controls, deprecation, and release processes.
- Establish integration standards for naming, versioning, authentication, documentation, error handling, and data formats.
- Contribute to API governance frameworks, integration architecture standards, and reusable design patterns.
- Review API and integration designs for scalability, maintainability, security, performance, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architects on integration architecture and technology decisions.
- Work with Product, Engineering, Data, Cloud, Security, and Operations teams to deliver cross-functional integration initiatives.
- Coordinate with external vendors, technology partners, and service providers on API specifications, connectivity, testing, and production support.
- Manage partner onboarding requirements including credentials, certificates, endpoints, IP allowlists, schemas, and connectivity testing.
- Support integration onboarding and technical certification processes for external partners.
- Analyze API usage and integration performance to identify optimization opportunities.
- Improve API response times, throughput, reliability, and resource utilization.
- Implement caching, connection pooling, asynchronous processing, batching, and other performance-enhancement techniques where appropriate.
- Support integration migration projects, legacy API modernization, platform consolidation, and technology upgrades.
- Develop migration plans for legacy interfaces and point-to-point integrations toward standardized API-based architectures.
- Support API gateway configuration, routing, policies, throttling, authentication, analytics, and lifecycle management.
- Work with API management platforms such as Apigee, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Kong, MuleSoft, or equivalent technologies.
- Support event-driven integrations using messaging platforms, queues, streams, and event-broker technologies where applicable.
- Maintain integration dependency maps, interface inventories, API catalogs, and service ownership records.
- Ensure integration solutions comply with data-protection, security, privacy, and organizational technology standards.
- Participate in architecture reviews, technical assessments, solution design workshops, and implementation planning.
- Evaluate emerging API, integration, event-driven, and automation technologies and recommend appropriate solutions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify integration landscapes, reduce technical debt, and improve operational efficiency.
- Develop technical documentation including API contracts, sequence diagrams, data mappings, integration specifications, and support procedures.
- Mentor developers and integration specialists on API design, integration patterns, security, testing, and operational practices.
- Provide management with regular reporting on integration performance, reliability, incidents, project progress, risks, and improvement opportunities.
Key Performance Indicators
- * API availability
- API integration success rate
- API transaction success rate
- API response time
- API latency
- API throughput
- API error rate
- Integration failure rate
- Integration incident frequency
- Mean time to detect integration failures
- Mean time to resolve integration incidents
- Repeat integration incident rate
- Integration SLA compliance
- API uptime
- API performance benchmark compliance
- API security compliance
- Authentication and authorization failure rate
- API contract compliance
- Data-transformation accuracy
- Data-validation success rate
- Integration data-quality rate
- Message-processing success rate
- Event-processing reliability
- Queue or message backlog
- Integration retry rate
- Duplicate transaction rate
- API timeout rate
- API gateway availability
- API gateway policy compliance
- API versioning compliance
- Deprecated API retirement progress
- API documentation completeness
- API inventory accuracy
- Integration test coverage
- Automated API test coverage
- Contract-test success rate
- Production deployment success rate
- Integration change failure rate
- Integration defect resolution time
- Partner onboarding completion time
- Partner integration success rate
- Integration project delivery performance
- Integration automation rate
- Infrastructure and API cost efficiency
- Technical-debt reduction
- Integration monitoring coverage
- Integration observability effectiveness
- Stakeholder satisfaction
Ideal CandidateThe successful candidate should have strong experience in API integration, integration engineering, middleware development, enterprise integration, backend engineering, or digital platform integration, preferably within complex technology, financial services, e-commerce, telecommunications, SaaS, or enterprise environments.
The candidate should demonstrate:
- Strong understanding of API architecture, integration patterns, and distributed systems.
- Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and system integrations.
- Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP, GraphQL, webhooks, asynchronous APIs, and event-driven integration.
- Experience with API specifications and documentation using OpenAPI, Swagger, or equivalent standards.
- Strong knowledge of JSON, XML, schemas, data transformation, validation, and mapping.
- Experience with API authentication and security including OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys, and mutual TLS.
- Strong understanding of API gateways, management platforms, routing, throttling, and lifecycle management.
- Experience with platforms such as Apigee, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Kong, MuleSoft, or comparable technologies.
- Strong knowledge of integration error handling, retries, idempotency, timeouts, circuit breakers, and resilience patterns
