Hiring: API Architect (Azure) Company: Hallmark Global Solutions Ltd Location: Cary, NC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 10:57:26 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, API Gateway, Azure, Azure AD, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Data Mesh, Databricks, Embedded Systems, Encryption, Event-Driven, GDPR, Git, GraphQL, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Integration Testing, JWT, Java, Kafka, OAuth2, OIDC, OpenAPI, Python, RBAC, REST, SOC 2, SQL, Spring, Spring Boot, TLS, Terraform, Vault, Workday, gRPC About the job Experience: •10+ years in API, integration or backend engineering, including 3+ years owning API architecture and design at an enterprise scale. Required Skills: •This is a design-and-build role, not a diagrams-only role. You will set the standards, then prove them by writing the reference services your engineers pattern-match against. Expect roughly a 60/40 split between architecture and hands-on engineering. •API architecture & design •Define and maintain the end-to-end design of the API layer, covering service boundaries, contracts, data models, error semantics and versioning strategy, and keep it documented and current. •Produce repeatable, reusable API patterns for the many inbound and outbound interfaces, covering data exchange, file push and pull, synchronous and asynchronous flows, rather than one-off services per consumer. •Own the OpenAPI specification approach, naming and payload conventions, backward-compatibility rules and the contract-first workflow between producers and consumers. •Define the patterns for moving large payloads reliably, including chunked and resumable transfers, streaming request and response bodies, signed URLs, checksums and restart on failure. •Choose between synchronous APIs, queue-backed asynchronous flows and bulk file interfaces, and capture the reasoning in ADRs so decisions survive team turnover. Qualifications: •Working experience on data engagements with Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory and ADLS Gen2, including medallion or lakehouse architectures. •Azure certifications (AZ-204, AZ-305) or equivalent. •Insurance or wider financial services experience, with GDPR and SOC 2 obligations. •GraphQL, gRPC or event-streaming API styles alongside REST. •API gateway migration or estate consolidation experience. •Data mesh or data-product thinking, and data contracts between producers and consumers. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!