API / Data Architect
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DecisionPointFederal IT architecture
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United StatesFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience in architecture, API engineering, integration design, or enterprise systems engineering.
- Required Skills
- GraphQLOAuthRESTful APIsMicroservicesJSON
Requirements
- Hold an active Top Secret clearance supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
- Have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- Have a minimum of 10 years of experience in architecture, API engineering, integration design, or enterprise systems engineering.
- Have experience leading architectural design for REST/GraphQL APIs, microservices, and system integrations.
- Have experience developing data models, data contracts, and integration schemas.
- Have experience working in secure federal, DoD, or enterprise environments.
- Bring deep expertise in REST, GraphQL, JSON, and API schema design.
- Understand microservices, service meshes, and event-driven architectures.
- Know DoD security and Zero Trust architecture principles.
- Have familiarity with API gateways, developer portals, and integration tooling.
- Understand OAuth2, SAML, and JWT authentication and authorization protocols.
- Have experience with performance tuning, fault-tolerant service design, and API observability.
- Hold CompTIA Security+ certification.
Responsibilities
- Design enterprise API architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, and interoperability standards.
- Define RESTful and GraphQL API schemas, data contracts, and payload structures.
- Establish microservices boundaries, domain models, and service decomposition strategies.
- Align API and data architecture with DoD Zero Trust policies, identity requirements, and data protection rules.
- Develop and enforce API governance, naming conventions, versioning strategies, and lifecycle standards.
- Create interface architecture diagrams, data flow maps, and system integration documentation.
- Collaborate with development teams to implement scalable, secure, and maintainable APIs.
- Conduct architectural reviews, evaluate technical debt, and guide modernization strategies.
- Define logging, monitoring, and observability requirements for service and API health.
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