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API Architect Lead

Leidos Inc
$104,650.00 - $189,175.00 / yr
United States
Oct 24, 2025

Description

The Leidos Public Health and Human Services Operation team is seeking an API Architect Lead, contingent upon contract award.

Candidate MUST:

Be a US Citizen or Green Card holder with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance

AND be located in the UNITED STATES for the current three consecutive years

Role will be primarily telecommute with the ability to travel for meetings once per quarter

Responsibility: The API Architect Lead shall be responsible for ensuring MuleSoft and the proposed API platform/tools best practices and for architectural concepts for API implementations.

Collaborate with architects, business analysts, engineers, and project managers on a wide range of technology projects, including software development, package installation, and infrastructure upgrades and changes; Influence requirements and contribute to identification, specification, and recommendation of solution architectures.

The API Architect Lead shall contribute to multiple technical areas, including processes, software, data, networks, and systems.

Education: Bachelor's degree and Cloud Architect Certifications are required as well as a minimum of 8+ years of:

Experience: Experience with API management platforms is required. Experience in government projects with similar size and complexity.

Candidates should have significant experience with the following technologies and environments:

Integration & Cloud Platforms

  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (On-Premises) - including PCE (Private Cloud Edition), Mule Runtime, and Anypoint Studio

  • Salesforce GovCloud (SaaS)

  • Confluent Kafka (On-Premises: Broker, C3 Control Center, Connect, KSQL, Schema Registry, REST Proxy, Zookeeper)

  • AWS (Advanced Shield, CMS Cloud, Splunk, New Relic)

  • RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

Application & Web Development

  • Angular Framework, jQuery, Bootstrap

  • Spring Boot, Node.js/NPM, Java

  • DynamoDB

DevOps & CI/CD Tools

  • GitHub, Jenkins (CloudBees), Maven, SonarQube, JFrog Enterprise Plus

  • MUnit (Testing), Selenium, JMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB

  • OpsView (Monitoring)

Security & Access Management

  • OKTA, Enterprise IDM, Enterprise Portal

  • OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0 (for SSO)

  • SMTP (Email Integration)

Collaboration & Project Management

  • Slack (Business Communication)

  • JIRA, Confluence

Other Tools

  • DLTA (Data Layer Transformation & Automation)

PHHS

At Leidos, we don't want someone who "fits the mold"-we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, "what's next?" before the dust settles on "what's now."

If you're already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2... good. You'll fit right in.

Original Posting:October 23, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.


Pay Range:Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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