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Heidrick
Chicago
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Heidrick & Struggles is the world’s foremost advisor on executive leadership, driving superior client performance through premier human capital leadership advisory services. For more than 70 years, we’ve delivered value for our clients by leveraging unrivaled expertise to help organizations discover and enable outstanding leaders and teams. Learn more at www.heidrick.com
Heidrick & Struggles is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent
solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®
Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com .
The Senior Manager, API & Middleware Engineering will lead API and middleware engineering as a strategic enterprise platform capability supporting MuleSoft development, enterprise integrations, API-managed services, reusable connectivity patterns, AI-enabled services, and emerging agent/MCP integration frameworks.
This role owns the delivery, operational maturity, reliability, scalability, and engineering effectiveness of the enterprise middleware platform, enabling secure and reusable connectivity across core enterprise systems, data platforms, APIs, and AI-enabled workflows.
The role partners with Enterprise Architecture and engineering teams to operationalize practical, enablement-based governance that improves consistency without creating delivery bottlenecks. This position manages a blended team of internal employees, external contractors, and vendor partners, while owning middleware delivery, API standards, integration support, backlog management, technical governance, and production readiness.
The Senior Manager partners across Application and Platform Engineering, Application Platform Services, Quality Engineering, Architecture, Security, Data, AI, Infrastructure, Product, PMO, and vendor teams. This role operates as a player-coach leader, balancing strategic platform ownership, team leadership, operational accountability, and hands-on technical engagement across middleware and enterprise integration initiatives.
Pay Range Guidelines for this Position:
The salary range for this position is 170000 USD to 182000 USD. Compensation is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience and skills. In addition to your salary, Heidrick & Struggles offers discretionary bonuses (subject to eligibility requirements) and a comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental, vision, disability leave, parental leave, paid time off and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
Note: we have a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in other locations.
Heidrick & Struggles is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or citizenship status.
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