API Architect – Digital Platforms Engineer & Delivery

At Corebridge Financial, we are seeking an API Architect – Digital Platforms Engineer & Delivery to join our team in Houston, TX or Jersey City, NJ. As a senior technical role, the API Architect will be responsible for defining the strategy, standards, and design of our organization's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or proven record of experience.
• An understanding of the financial services industry.
• Expertise in Domain Driven Design.
• 7+ years of experience in API design, architecture, and development.
• Strong expertise with REST, GraphQL, event-driven APIs, and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience with designing secure API authentication/authorization frameworks.
• Proven ability to integrate APIs across diverse applications, software systems, and data sources.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong understanding of session management, token strategies, and secure communication protocols.
• Strong JavaScript, Java knowledge.
• Experience with MCP.
• Experience with API gateways, developer portals, and service mesh technologies (e.g. Amazon API Gateway, Istio).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and cloud-native deployment models.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (AWS CloudWatch / CloudTrail, Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).

Benefits

• Health and Wellness
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Program
• Matching charitable donations
• Volunteer Time Off
• Paid Time Off