Job Description

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Integrations (API) Engineer – Data Platform

Experience- 4-6 years

Location- Kochi, Chennai, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Pune

We are seeking an Integrations (API) Engineer to design, build, and manage APIs that expose data products from the data platform to downstream applications.

This role is responsible for ensuring that data is delivered reliably, securely, and in a way that is consumable by applications, acting as the bridge between the data platform and consuming systems.

Role Purpose

• Enable Data as a Service (DaaS) through well-designed APIs
• Ensure data products are consumable, performant, and reliable
• Act as the interface between data engineering and application teams

🔧 Key Responsibilities

API Design & Development

• Design and build APIs that expose data products
• Define:
• Endpoints
• Request/response structures
• Payload formats
• Ensure APIs align with data contracts and product definitions

Integration with Data Platform

• Partner with Data Engineers to consume curated datasets correctly and avoid duplicating transformation logic already handled upstream

• Ensure data delivered through APIs is governed, accurate, and fit for purpose

Consumer Integration Support

• Work closely with downstream teams (e.g. EQCR application team) to support onboarding, clarify API usage, and resolve integration issues

Performance & Reliability

• Meet agreed performance benchmarks and SLAs

• Own error handling, logging, and monitoring for all API surfaces

Security & Access Control

• Implement authentication, authorisation, and data access controls

• Ensure APIs comply with data security, governance, and regulatory standards

API Lifecycle Management

• Version APIs appropriately and manage change, deprecation, and backward compatibility

• Maintain clear, up-to-date documentation for all published APIs

Key Deliverables

• Production-ready APIs exposing governed data products
• API documentation covering endpoints, schemas, and usage patterns
• Integration support and onboarding for consuming applications

• Monitoring and alerting covering API performance and availability

Key Interfaces

• Data Engineers → source of curated datasets
• Data Product Manager → API requirements and use cases
• Data Consultant → data definitions, lineage, and rules
• Application Teams → API consumers
• Architecture → standards and patterns

Experience Required

• 4–8+ years in API development or integration engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with REST APIs, JSON, and data contract design
• Experience with Swagger, OpenAPI specification
• Experience of Azure API Gateway, Fast API, Azure Container Apps, Azure functions
• Proven experience integrating with data platforms or complex backend systems
• Solid understanding of API security patterns (OAuth 2.0, token-based auth, Managed Identities)

• Comfortable working across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced delivery environment

Nice to Have

• Experience in data platform environments (lakehouse, etc.)
• Experience in regulated environments
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures

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