A senior developer or architect with integration platform expertise solid design skills and cloud-native experience will thrive in this role As an API Architect you will enable scalable and secure API solutions that support digital transformation cloud adoption and platform modernization You will work closely with product development security and infrastructure teams to drive the vision and execution of the enterprise API strategy Define and evolve API architecture principles standards guidelines and best practices for REST GraphQL and event-based APIs Drive API governance processes including versioning lifecycle management reuse strategy security standards and performance baselines Lead the design of reusable API patterns and common components for integration and platform engineering teams Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to integrate API design and security into CI CD pipelines Evaluate and implement API management tools and developer portal capabilities e g Kong AWS API Gateway Azure API Management Define authentication authorization rate-limiting caching observability and resiliency models for internal and external-facing APIs Review existing APIs provide design guidance and ensure consistency across the enterprise Build reference implementations and API blueprints to accelerate development Help define the enterprise event-driven architecture strategy Kafka EventBridge SNS SQS etc Work with security teams to ensure proper API protection using OAuth2 0 JWT mTLS and other protocols Provide technical leadership and mentoring to API developers across platform teams Conduct training sessions workshops and documentation for design-first API development Bachelor s degree in Engineering Computer Science or equivalent 7 years of experience in software engineering with at least 4 years of hands-on API architecture and integration experience Expertise in RESTful API design OpenAPI Swagger JSON Schema and GraphQL specifications Strong programming experience in Node js Python or Java Familiarity with API frameworks and libraries such as Express FastAPI Spring Boot or NestJS Strong understanding of modern authentication protocols - OAuth2 0 OpenID Connect API Keys mTLS Proven experience with API management platforms - Kong AWS API Gateway or Azure API Management Hands-on experience with containerized workloads Docker Kubernetes and microservices patterns Familiarity with asynchronous and event-driven APIs Kafka SQS EventBridge Strong documentation and communication skills diagrams API specs wiki authoring Cloud platform experience AWS Azure or GCP in designing and deploying scalable APIs Knowledge of CI CD GitOps and automation pipelines Experience with observability tools Prometheus OpenTelemetry for API monitoring and tracing At least 1 API-related certification or cloud certification Architect level preferred

📌 It. Senior Developer (Maharashtra)
🏢 Citco
📍 Maharashtra