Job Title: System Architect
Location: League City, TX – Fully onsite 5 days per week
Salary: $105,000-$175,000
**No Third Parties**
Position Summary:
We’re seeking an API-focused System Architect to lead and mature our enterprise API strategy. This role is central to evolving how we design, govern, and deliver APIs across diverse systems and teams. As the API System Architect, you’ll define standards, ensure architectural consistency, and mentor development teams on best practices. You’ll balance technical pragmatism with long-term vision, ensuring APIs are reliable, secure, and built for scale.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the maturation of API development across multiple agile teams of varying technical maturity.
- Define and enforce API strategy, structure, standards, and governance frameworks.
- Oversee API design and orchestration across key business functions – from owning data domains to building a reusable API library.
- Ensure monitoring, authentication, and secure delivery of APIs.
- Balance monolithic and microservice architectures to align with evolving platform goals.
- Collaborate closely with system and solution architects, developers, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and drive consistency.
- Communicate not just what standards exist, but why they matter – fostering understanding and adoption across teams.
Skills Needed:
- Deep experience in API development and integration, with exposure to multiple programming languages.
- Proven ability to design, implement, and mature API strategies in complex, multi-system environments.
- Strategic mindset – able to connect hands-on API experience to broader architectural goals.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure, orchestration, and secure API delivery.
- Comfortable in an architectural role with occasional hands-on development involvement when needed
- Experience with any of the following: Visual COBOL, C#, Java, TypeScript, IBM ACE, and API Connect.
- Understanding of DevOps principles and automation potential (executed by a dedicated DevOps team).
To be considered for the role please apply online or email an updated resume to Liam Schmidt at Oliver James – [email protected]
