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About the Role

This role leads the strategy and execution of Guardian's enterprise API ecosystem, enabling secure, scalable, and reusable services that power customer, product, and AI capabilities. You will modernize the API landscape, establish engineering standards, and lead teams delivering high-quality integration solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable API platforms across the enterprise
• Establish and enforce API standards across security, performance, and lifecycle management
• Modernize legacy integrations into reusable, well-governed APIs
• Drive adoption and reuse of APIs across product and engineering teams
• Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, and platform teams to align on integration patterns
• Improve developer experience through tooling, automation, and self-service capabilities
• Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across platform and delivery
• Reduce duplication and improve efficiency across enterprise integrations
• Influence technology direction through strong cross-functional partnerships

Requirements

• Experience leading API, platform, or integration engineering in large-scale environments
• Strong expertise in API design, microservices, and modern integration patterns
• Proven ability to establish standards and drive adoption across teams
• Experience modernizing legacy systems into scalable services
• Strong understanding of security (authentication, authorization, zero-trust)
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise outcomes

Skills

• API design
• Microservices
• Modern integration patterns
• API security
• API governance
• API lifecycle management
• Cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Event-driven architectures
• Distributed systems
• Data integration patterns
• AI integration patterns
• Developer platforms
• API marketplaces

Location

• United States

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, API development, or platform engineering
• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering at enterprise scale

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Salary/Compensations

• $178,690.00 - $293,560.00

Benefits

• Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
• Skill-building opportunities
• Leadership development opportunities
• Philanthropic opportunities
• Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources

About the Company

• At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
• As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.

Equal Opportunity

• Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
• Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.