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You will be responsible for architecture reviews and sign-off, platform governance, delivery execution, and 24/7 operational readiness.\nYour team includes:\nAPI & Integration development on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: API development, integration patterns, orchestration, policy enforcement, and runtime operations.\nEnterprise Microservices (Kubernetes/Azure): microservices deployed to Kubernetes (AKS preferred) using Azure cloud services and enterprise engineering standards.\nThis role supports a hybrid work model with 2-3 days per week on-site at the UFCU Plaza building, and manager a core team of 5-7 FTE’s, scaling with contractor resources as needed.\nAbout UFCU\nOur Credit Union was founded in 1936 and has grown to serve members throughout Texas and beyond. At UFCU, we are more than just a financial institution, and our people are more than just employees. We are dedicated to our purpose of empowering our Members to achieve financial success and build brighter futures.\nIn pursuit of our aspiration that UFCU is loved by millions of Members and built to thrive for generations, we are guided by our values:\nPurposefully Member-Obsessed\nWe are driven by a profound sense of empathy to deeply understand our Members’ needs and preferences, what brighter futures means to them, and the obstacles in their way. We act in our Members’ best interests, forever seeking to empower their financial success.\nPossibilities Reimagined\nWe are inspired to courageously experiment, learn, and iterate in pursuit of positive impact for our Members, UFCU, and coworkers. We challenge assumptions, embrace diverse perspectives, and make use of data and insights.\nPerformance Excellence Rooted in Unwavering Integrity\nWe do the right thing, always. We champion teamwork, accountability, continuous improvement, and celebrate successful outcomes of others, fostering an inclusive environment of excellence and collaboration.\nEssential Functions\nLead an engineering team consisting of API/Integration and Microservices resources delivering reliable, secure, reusable enterprise services and APIs.\nProvide hands-on technical leadership including:\nArchitecture reviews, technical design guidance, and engineering sign-off for APIs, integrations, and microservices\nEstablishing and maintaining reference architectures and engineering standards\nOwn the API platform roadmap and governance, including:\nAPI design standards, documentation (e.g., OpenAPI), versioning, lifecycle management, and deprecation policies\nConsistent patterns for error handling, idempotency, resiliency, and backward compatibility\nGuide MuleSoft Anypoint Platform delivery and operations, including:\nAPI lifecycle management, policy enforcement, reusable assets, orchestration patterns, and runtime monitoring\nPerformance tuning, release readiness, and operational stability\nLead enterprise microservices engineering using C#/.NET, Kubernetes, and Azure, including:\nService boundaries and domain alignment, contract-first/service-first approaches\nCI/CD, automated testing strategies, and secure SDLC quality gates\nObservability practices: metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerts\nEnsure production reliability and operational excellence by:\nEstablishing incident response practices, runbooks, post-incident reviews, and problem management\nDefining and tracking SLAs/SLOs, MTTR, reliability trends, and capacity planning\nEmbed security and compliance into engineering practices, partnering with Security/Risk/Compliance to ensure:\nSecure API and service patterns (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS where appropriate, secrets management, encryption at rest/in transit, least privilege)\nAudit readiness (change management, evidence collection, and operational controls)\nEnable internal teams, AI initiatives, and vendors by delivering:\nA clear enterprise service catalog and onboarding documentation\nSupportable integration patterns and certification/testing approaches for vendor consumption\nManage delivery execution and team operations, including:\nAgile planning (Scrum/Kanban), prioritization, dependency management, and stakeholder communication\nHiring, coaching, performance management, and contractor augmentation management\nKnowledge / Skills / Abilities\nStrong leadership capability with a platform mindset-building reusable, well-governed services that enable other teams.\nDeep knowledge of API engineering best practices, including:RESTful design, versioning strategies, lifecycle management, security policies, throttling, documentation, and governance \n\nHands on experience with C#/.NET. \nSolid understanding of integration and orchestration patterns, including synchronous/asynchronous approaches, retries, dead-letter handling, and resiliency.\nWorking expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems concepts:Service boundaries, reliability patterns (timeouts, circuit breakers), data ownership considerations, performance, and scalability\n\nDemonstrated ability to perform architecture reviews and provide technical sign-off without creating delivery bottlenecks.\nOperational discipline and comfort owning production outcomes, including:Incident response leadership, escalation management, postmortems, and continuous improvement\n\nPractical knowledge of modern engineering practices:CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code quality gates, security scanning, and deployment strategies\n\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills:Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into business impact and align cross-functional partners\n\nPreferred domain knowledge:Financial services/credit union/banking technology considerations, risk awareness, and compliance mindset\nFamiliarity with BIAN concepts for capability/service domain alignment and service taxonomy (preferred)\n\nExperience\nMinimum Requirements\n5+ years leading engineering teams (people management, delivery accountability, coaching/development).\nExperience delivering microservices (Java/C#/.NET) and deploying to Kubernetes\nProven experience delivering and operating enterprise APIs and/or integration platforms in production environments.\nExperience guiding teams building scalable backend services including CI/CD and operational ownership.\nDemonstrated experience leading architecture reviews and enforcing engineering standards (design patterns, security, reliability).\nExperience integrating with enterprise observability tools (i.e. Grafana, Datadog etc.)\nAbility to work hybrid with 2-3 days/week on-site in the Austin, TX area.\nWillingness and ability to lead incident response when necessary.\nPreferred Requirements\nHands-on experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (e.g., API Manager, Exchange, 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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.\nSpecific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.\nThe employee is frequently required to stand and walk.\nEmployee will make extensive use of the telephone requiring the ability to effectively and accurately explain complex information.\nWORK ENVIRONMENT\nThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nThis position is available to work from home for 50% of the time. 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