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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Analyst, Platform Standards & API - **Company:** Lincoln National Corporation - **Location:** Radnor, PA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $96,900.0 - $176,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Management of Software Versions, Enterprise Data Management, Datadog, Generative AI, Graphql, Api Design, Api Management - **Published:** July 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=181aca9a68216eaf ## About the Role 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelor's) (Minimum Required) 5+ years in API/platform architecture roles, with direct experience publishing a documented engineering-standards artifact and owning an API platform where other teams are the primary customers. Experience with data-contract patterns, schema governance, versioning/deprecation policy, and REST (GraphQL a plus) API design at enterprise scale. Strong Python skills and working knowledge of cloud data services (Glue, Lake Formation, Athena) and AI/agent stacks (Bedrock, AgentCore, MCP). Able to work from a target architecture and turn it into rules developers actually follow. Application Deadline ## Description Author and maintain the platform's data/API engineering standards: endpoint design, data-contract shape, versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation policy across the full API lifecycle. Own the Data Contracts standard (publish/consume model) that every data product must meet, starting with existing structured-data and existing APIs. Establish governance for how AI/GenAI applications securely access enterprise data and models, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) patterns, so teams can build AI features without bypassing platform controls. Define guardrails that prevent AI/GenAI services from leaking sensitive data or operating outside approved bounds, in partnership with governance and security teams. Build self-service developer tooling (templates, onboarding paths, schema-validation and observability tooling) so teams can adopt platform standards without needing hands-on platform-team support for every integration. Own structured intake and triage for standards violations, API incidents, and integration issues; identify recurring patterns and drive them to root-cause fixes rather than one-off patches. Report standards adoption, API health, and incident trends to engineering and platform leadership. Partner with governance and enterprise-catalog teams so platform-side standards (schemas, metadata tagging) satisfy governance requirements. Mentor engineers across the platform on API design and standards adoption., This position may be subject to Lincoln's Political Contribution Policy. An offer of employment may be contingent upon disclosing to Lincoln the details of certain political contributions. Lincoln may decline to extend an offer or terminate employment for this role if it determines political contributions made could have an adverse impact on Lincoln's current or future business interests, misrepresentations were made, or for failure to fully disclose applicable political contributions and or fundraising activities. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted through our web site or to personal e-mail accounts of employees of Lincoln Financial are considered property of Lincoln Financial and are not subject to payment of agency fees. Lincoln Financial ("Lincoln" or "the Company") is an Equal Opportunity employer and, as such, is committed in policy and practice to recruit, hire, compensate, train and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability. Opportunities throughout Lincoln are available to employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of job qualifications. 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