5 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead technical decision-making and architecture discussions across the Cards and Merchants API estate.
- Review API contracts, specifications, event schemas, integration patterns, and technical designs for reliability, security, testability, and scalability.
- Identify systemic integration risks and drive API quality, standardisation, and risk-reduction initiatives.
- Mentor and coach API engineers on API design, enterprise integration patterns, testing strategies, and technical development.
- Investigate root causes and guide teams toward scalable, enterprise-grade solutions for complex API and integration problems.
- Collaborate with platform owners, architecture, product, engineering, and technology leadership to align API priorities and enterprise roadmaps.
Requirements
- Proven experience in API and integration architecture, including hands-on design, security, and scaling of enterprise interfaces.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot/Spring for enterprise API and integration services.
- Experience designing and reviewing RESTful APIs, including contracts, specifications, payloads, data mapping, authentication, and error handling.
- Experience with Kong and JWT for gateway-based API integration.
- Proficiency with Gradle, Docker, OpenShift, and EKS/Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Spinnaker for source control, build, and deployment workflows.
- Experience using HashiCorp Vault for secure secrets management.
- Experience with IBM MQ and/or Kafka for messaging and event-driven integration.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Aurora for data persistence.
- Experience with JUnit, REST Assured, and TestNG for unit, API, and integration testing.
- Strong systems-level thinking, structured problem-solving, communication, ownership, and technical leadership skills.
- Experience in banking or financial services and knowledge of card and merchant data flows are desirable.
Benefits
- Permanent employment with flexible working arrangements.
- Wellbeing support and a generous leave offering.
- Opportunities for growth, learning, and career development.
- Applications close on 16 October 2026, with applications reviewed throughout the advertising period and the possibility of early closure.
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About NAB
The National Association of Broadcasters is the U.S. trade association for radio and television stations and networks. It advocates on policy and regulatory issues, supports industry standards and education, and produces the NAB Show, a major annual media and technology conference. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Washington, DC, NAB operates as a nonprofit membership organization funded by dues, events, and sponsorships.