Lead Specialist Application Programming Interface & Integration📣 إعلان

About the Role

Ma’aden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Application Programming Interface & Integration to join its team. This full-time role is central to enabling seamless, secure, and reliable data exchange across enterprise systems, platforms, and applications. The specialist will play a critical part in connecting business and technology ecosystems through scalable integration services.

Purpose of the Position

The Lead Specialist supports operational efficiency, digital transformation, and data-driven decision-making by establishing robust integration standards and governing API delivery. This position ensures enterprise data is accessible, protected, and consumable through trusted interfaces. The role strengthens platform resilience, accelerates solution delivery, and enables consistent integration capabilities that support both internal stakeholders and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, scalable APIs and integration services that enable reliable data exchange across enterprise platforms and applications.
• Establish integration patterns and service standards that ensure consistency, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Enable governed access to enterprise data products through stable interfaces and service contracts.
• Embed authentication, authorization, auditing, and access controls that protect enterprise data and services.
• Ensure API and integration solutions align with data governance, security, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Maintain effective lifecycle controls across API design, deployment, change management, and retirement.
• Deliver highly available and resilient integration services that meet performance and reliability requirements.
• Strengthen observability through monitoring, logging, metrics, and tracing capabilities.
• Resolve production incidents and drive continuous improvements that reduce operational risk and service disruption.
• Provide technical guidance and assurance for integration initiatives, projects, and vendor-delivered solutions.
• Partner with data engineering, platform, and application teams to deliver end-to-end integration outcomes.
• Enable effective API adoption through documentation, onboarding, and stakeholder engagement.
• Improve integration performance, scalability, and operational efficiency through ongoing enhancement initiatives.
• Drive standardization and automation opportunities that increase delivery quality and reduce complexity.
• Promote best practices that enhance the maturity of enterprise integration capabilities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 7-10 years of experience in API development and integration engineering within enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering production-grade integrations with strong security and governance requirements.
• Experience supporting and optimizing mission-critical integration services.
• Experience collaborating across platform, engineering, architecture, and business teams.

Application Information

This is a full-time position with Ma’aden. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.