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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Skills 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 and 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
- Experience in data platform environments (lakehouse, etc.)
- Experience in regulated environments
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
