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The Manager - Integration Platform is responsible for leading, managing, and optimizing enterprise integration platforms spanning API Gateways (real-time APIs), Messaging (Pub/Sub, Kafka), and Batch/ETL systems. This role is instrumental in enabling reliable and scalable data exchange across business-critical systems by ensuring the stability, security, and performance of integration services. The Manager works closely with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and data teams to implement integration best practices, oversee delivery pipelines, and drive operational excellence across real-time, streaming, and batch integration domains.
Job Responsibility:
Define, evangelize, and execute the strategic roadmap for the integration platform
Act as the primary owner and subject matter authority for enterprise integration platforms
Continuously evaluate and evolve the platform
Lead a team of highly motivated platform engineers
Lead the engineering, governance, and lifecycle management of enterprise APIs using Google Apigee
Establish policies and frameworks for API productization, security enforcement, runtime traffic control, quota management, and monetization
Collaborate with development teams to design and publish APIs
Oversee the API developer portal
Elicit the complex business requirements
Architect and operationalize a high-throughput, low-latency enterprise messaging layer
Define best practices for message schema evolution, topic partitioning, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, and throughput optimization
Provide architectural oversight and operational leadership over cloud-native and legacy ETL systems
Modernize legacy pipelines
Champion infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
Implement secure, automated, and auditable CI/CD pipelines
Govern the secure management of credentials, secrets, and certificates
Ensure that integration platforms are hardened, monitored, and compliant
Lead implementation of Zero Trust principles across APIs and messaging layers
Partner with Information Security, Risk, and Legal to conduct architecture reviews, data protection assessments, and incident readiness exercises
Oversee budgeting, resource allocation, and investment planning for integration platforms
Manage vendor partnerships
Drive cost optimization and value realization across platform-related cloud spend, support contracts, and third-party integrations
Requirements:
14+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, enterprise integration, or platform development
10+ years of people and technical leadership experience
Expertise in API Gateway technologies, especially Google Apigee
Strong experience with event-driven messaging platforms such as Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Apache Kafka
Hands-on experience managing ETL and data integration pipelines using tools such as Google Cloud Dataflow, Informatica, dbt, or Airflow
Proficiency in Java and Python for backend development
Solid understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases
Experience working with Snowflake for data warehousing and analytics integration
Deep understanding of container orchestration and deploying services on Kubernetes
Advanced proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services for integration workloads
Proven experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Strong background in CI/CD pipeline implementation
Familiarity with observability and telemetry tooling
Practical knowledge of security frameworks and practices including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mutual TLS
Experience establishing and governing API lifecycle standards
Understanding of regulatory and compliance frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOX
Ability to coordinate across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills
Master's Degree or Equivalent Level of Experience
Nice to have:
Google Cloud certifications
Snowflake certifications
Kubernetes certifications
Experience leading enterprise integration in retail or omnichannel commerce environments
Familiarity with service mesh technologies
Knowledge of real-time and asynchronous protocols such as GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets
Experience with secrets management using HashiCorp Vault or GCP Secret Manager
Proficiency with CI/CD and GitOps tools like ArgoCD, Spinnaker, and Tekton
Exposure to API testing tools
Experience implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or ELK Stack
Integration of monitoring systems with incident response platforms
Understanding of retail-specific use cases
Knowledge of compliance frameworks relevant to retail
Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture applied to public-facing APIs and internal systems in retail operations
What we offer:
Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One