Integration Platform Sr Manager_2988
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8–10 years of experience in platform, integration, or backend engineering, with at least 3–4 years leading and managing engineering teams
- Demonstrated engineering background in Java/Spring Boot microservices — must be able to conduct meaningful code reviews, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and engage credibly on implementation details
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud-native services including API Gateway, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, and networking — not just familiarity, but production ownership
- Experience building and operating event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms
- Experience with API gateway management, REST API design standards, and OAuth2/JWT authentication patterns in production environments
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and/or AWS CDK — all infrastructure version-controlled and peer-reviewed
- Experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tooling — building pipelines that deploy to containerized cloud environments
- Proven track record leading agile teams with sprint planning, backlog management, and delivery execution in a platform engineering context
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
Nice to have
- Experience with Dynatrace or equivalent full-stack observability platforms (APM, distributed tracing, SLO management)
- Familiarity with Ping Identity products — PingFederate SSO, JWT token management, or Ping/OAuth2 identity flows
- Experience with MongoDB and per-service schema design in a microservices context
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault or equivalent secrets management platforms in a cloud-native environment
- Experience in financial services or insurance technology, including familiarity with downstream policy administration and financial transaction systems
- Exposure to AI-augmented development tooling — AI code review, automated test generation, or LLM-assisted PR analysis
- Experience operating within a full-stack engineering model where teams own their full delivery stack without discipline silos
Full description
The Senior Manager of Digital Integration & Platform is a hands-on engineering leader responsible for the foundation that all five digital domains depend on. This role owns the API layer, microservices platform, event streaming infrastructure, cloud-native architecture, and the integrations that connect AllianzLife.com to financial product systems, downstream platforms, and third-party services.
This is a platform-first role in the truest sense and the team this manager leads enables every other domain to ship faster, more reliably, and with greater consistency. They are accountable for building and maintaining the Integration & Platform services defined in the Future Digital Reference Architecture: Java/Spring Boot microservices, AWS API Gateway, Kafka event streaming (EBS), MongoDB per-service data schemas, Ping authentication, Vault secrets management, and a cloud-native CI/CD pipeline on AWS ECS/EKS.
This role reports to the Head of Digital & Ops Modernization and partners closely with the Senior Director of Web Modernization, domain engineering managers, and enterprise architects. It is a cross-team enabler; reliability, API governance, and platform quality here directly determine the velocity of every team above it.
What you doAPI development & governance
- Own the full API layer for AllianzLife.com including design, development, versioning, deprecation, and contract governance across all domains
- Build and maintain the AWS API Gateway configuration including WAF rules, rate limiting, routing, and security policies
- Establish and enforce API standards used by all five engineering domains: REST conventions, error handling, versioning strategy, and documentation requirements
- Own the API catalog and developer documentation so internal teams can self-serve integrations without reliance on tribal knowledge
- Implement and maintain authentication (SSO, JWT, OAuth) across all platform entry points
- Manage Vault for secrets management, certificate rotation, and secure credential distribution across services
Microservices & integration platform
- Lead the engineering and ongoing operations of the Java/Spring Boot microservices that power AllianzLife.com’s core capabilities and build Account Service, Money Out Service, Claims Service, and Service Requests
- Own MongoDB per-service schema design and data governance and ensuring schemas are right-sized, versioned, and maintained independently per service
- Build and maintain Salesforce CRM integrations and all third-party API integrations that connect digital capabilities to back-office systems
- Own middleware orchestration and data transformation patterns across the integration layer
- Define and maintain integration contracts between the platform layer and all downstream systems: RSP, ID3, EODS, IHUB, and Producer Pro