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.
Location- Kochi, Chennai, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Pune
- 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
- Design and build APIs that expose data products
- Define:
- Endpoints
- Request/response structures
- Payload formats
- Ensure APIs align with data contracts and product definitions
- 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
- Work closely with downstream teams (e.g. EQCR application team) to support onboarding, clarify API usage, and resolve integration issues
- Meet agreed performance benchmarks and SLAs
- Own error handling, logging, and monitoring for all API surfaces
- Implement authentication, authorisation, and data access controls
- Ensure APIs comply with data security, governance, and regulatory standards
- Version APIs appropriately and manage change, deprecation, and backward compatibility
- Maintain clear, up-to-date documentation for all published APIs
- 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
- 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
- 4–8+ years in API development or integration engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with REST APIs, JSON, versioning and data contract design.
- Experience writing testable code using python testing frameworks.
- Experience with Swagger/OpenAPI specification
- Experience of Fast API, Flask API, Python
- 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 (Databricks, lakehouse, etc.)
- Experience in regulated environments
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Familiarity with event-driven architectures
- Experience with Azure API Gateway, Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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