Sr. Integration Architect

San Francisco, CA

St. Louis, MO

Cleveland, OH

Philadelphia, PA

Chicago, IL

New York, NY

Kansas City, MO

Boston, MA

Atlanta, GA

Minneapolis, MN

Dallas, TX

Richmond, VA

Full time

R-0000033239

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

The Infrastructure, Platforms & Operations portfolio supports the strategic direction and product delivery for System IT infrastructure and operations, as well as the alignment of technology to business strategies. The team serves as the business partner for secure and reliable IT products, services, and operations.

Right now, we are looking for a Sr. Integration Architect to work with the National Integration Services team who is focused on enabling a distributed and scalable API Management Platform for the Federal Reserve System. To be successful in this role, you must have stellar leadership and communication skills, with an excellent background in API development and management environments. You will need to learn new technologies and complex applications very quickly and manage numerous technical requirements. This is a great opportunity to showcase and enhance your extensive software architecture and information security skills and simultaneously gain intimate knowledge of Federal Reserve Bank products and services.

If you have a passion for building the Bank of tomorrow on the best technology available, then this role is for you. Come and be a part of the National Integration Services (NIS) dynamic team!

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define enterprise-wide technical strategy for API management, middleware, and backend system integrations and develop reusable solution patterns.

• Design end-to-end integration flows using Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) to support both synchronous and asynchronous business processes.

• Establish and enforce enterprise standards for API design, versioning, data privacy, security and catalog discovery across business units.

• Architect secure integration patterns utilizing industry-standard identity protocols, encryption-in-transit, and perimeter firewalls.

• Monitor, scale, and optimize high-throughput message brokers and API gateway topologies to guarantee low latency and high availability.

• Work with Lines of Businesses to architect, implement and support integration solutions.

• Help install, configure, and support MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway platforms.

• Build strong cross-organizational relationships and effectively influence staff across the IT organization and broader FRS.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related technical field or equivalent work experience

• Eight or more years in software design and development, with at least four years focused on enterprise integration architecture, APIs, and middleware.

• Hands-on experience with API gateways and management tools like MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Kong.

• Mastery of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, and API key management.

• Mastery of Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) such as content-based routing, message filtering, splitters, and aggregators.

• Exceptional ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear, actionable business capabilities for non-technical executives.

• Experience deploying and scaling integrations using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or OpenShift).

• Expert knowledge of REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and SOAP.

Helpful but not required:

• Proficiency with IBM App Connect Enterprise is a plus.

• Automation experience with Git-based workflows, Maven, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions is a plus.

• Automation experience with Terraform is a plus.

• Experience building and exposing tools to agents using AWS Lamda is a plus.

• Experience Architecting context-aware systems by integrating Bedrock Knowledge Bases with vector search engines like Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a plus.

• Experience designing and configuring intelligent AI agents is a plus.

Locations:

The selected candidate will reside within a reasonable commuting distance, as defined by the employing Reserve Bank, and will work full-time onsite.

• Eligible Locations for Hire: Boston, MA- New York, NY- Philadelphia, PA- Cleveland, OH- Richmond, VA- Atlanta, GA- Chicago, IL- St. Louis, MO- Minneapolis, MN- Kansas City, MO- Dallas, TX- San Francisco, CA

Screening:

Due to the nature of access to sensitive information all final offers are subject to the clearance of an enhanced background check. This enhanced screening will require the following items: academic and employment verifications, FBI fingerprint check (criminal and civil cases), credit check, family history, residential records and foreign travel for the previous 7 years, citizenship verification, reference checks, and personal interview with an investigator and can take between 21 – 60 days to clear.

Sponsorship:

Individuals who need immigration sponsorship now or in the future are not eligible for this position.

Must be a U.S Citizen or a Green card holder with intent to become a U.S Citizen.

Base Salary Range: Min: $146,700 Mid: $190,500 Max: $234,300 (Location: San Francisco)

The listed salary is applicable to 12th District. Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate’s qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location.

We offer a wonderful benefits package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account, Backup Child Care Program, Pre-Tax Day Care Flexible Spending Account, Paid Family Care Leave, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Pet Insurance, Matching 401(k), and Retirement/Pension.

The Bank is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. The SF Fed is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected] .

Due to the nature of access to sensitive information all final offers are subject to the clearance of an enhanced background check. This enhanced screening will require the following items: academic and employment verifications, FBI fingerprint check (criminal and civil cases), credit check, family history, residential records and foreign travel for the previous 7 years, citizenship verification, reference checks, and personal interview with an investigator and can take between 21 – 60 days to clear.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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