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Head of Microservices & API Engineering

Truist
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Jul 2025

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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

We are seeking a Head of Microservices & API Engineering to define and lead the enterprise strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of the service and API platform that underpins our digital ecosystem. This is a mission-critical executive leadership role that will shape the way our engineering organization builds, scales, secures, and evolves software across domains, geographies, and customer channels.

This role is foundational to achieving engineering velocity, architectural integrity, and long-term technical resilience across the enterprise. As we shift toward a composable, event-driven, and cloud-native operating model, microservices and APIs represent our primary levers for decoupling complexity, enabling self-service, enforcing secure-by-design principles, and unlocking platform innovation. The Head of Microservices & API Engineering will own the vision and implementation of the API platform as an internal product—complete with developer tooling, operational instrumentation, governance workflows, and discovery models.

This is not just a platform engineering role—it’s a strategic leadership position with enterprise-wide influence. The successful candidate will collaborate across infrastructure, security, business application teams, and executive stakeholders to ensure that services are scalable, reusable, observable, policy-compliant, and aligned to business capabilities. They will champion a product-driven, contract-first approach to service development, empowering engineering teams to build loosely coupled systems that evolve independently, operate reliably, and are optimized for change.

Equally important is the cultural transformation this role must drive. The incumbent will be responsible for creating a culture of API craftsmanship, documentation excellence, service ownership, and engineering rigor, while supporting onboarding, enablement, and developer productivity through standardized tooling and golden paths.

This leader will bring deep hands-on technical expertise, a modern engineering mindset, and a proven ability to scale complex platforms inside large, federated technology organizations. They will act as both an architectural authority and a builder of teams, platforms, and experiences that accelerate delivery, reduce complexity, and unlock developer creativity across the enterprise.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.  Specific activities may change from time to time.  
 

Strategic & Architectural Leadership

·         Define and execute the enterprise-wide microservices and API strategy aligned with business product teams, application modernization, and digital transformation goals.

·         Architect the internal API platform as a product—supporting discovery, standardization, policy enforcement, telemetry, security, and high availability.

·         Establish canonical patterns for service decomposition, bounded context modeling, service contracts, backward compatibility, and versioning governance.

Platform Engineering & Operations

·         Lead the engineering and operation of the enterprise servic

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