Principal Lead, API & AI Enterprise Integration Services

Define and lead the strategic vision for API, AI, and domain services engineering across the value streams. Break the bank into reusable API services by decomposing legacy systems into modular, discoverable, and consumable capabilities. Provide engineering leadership to build scalable, secure, and scalable platforms that power digital transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams in building robust domain services.
• Promote API reuse and developer enablement across value streams.
• Define and evolve the enterprise API, AI, and domain services strategy.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineering leads across value streams.
• Identify common capabilities and build shared services to support multiple domains.
• Ensure platform services are extensible, discoverable, and well-documented.
• Adopt emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI Agentic).
• Provide leadership to delivery teams, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Maintain delivery roadmaps, capacity plans, and resource forecasts.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Track and report KPIs, including audit and risk metrics.
• Promote a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Overall: 15+ years of experience, with 10+ years in banking.
• Experience in implementing API-first methodologies, prioritizing APIs at the beginning of the SDLC process.
• Ensure domain services reflect real-world business capabilities and priorities.
• Ensure architectural integrity, scalability, and performance of platform components.
• Promote engineering best practices, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and test automation.
• Translate enterprise goals into platform engineering strategies.
• Champion platform modernization and domain-driven design.
• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams.