We are looking for an experienced Apigee Architect to lead the design, governance, and operations of enterprise API platforms using Apigee Hybrid and Apigee Edge.
This role requires end-to-end ownership across:
- API Architecture & Design
- Platform Engineering & Operations
- API Governance & Security
The architect will act as a single technical anchor across development, platform, and business teams in a high-scale banking environment.
Key Responsibilities
- API Platform Architecture
- Design and govern Apigee Hybrid and Apigee Edge environments
- Define API architecture standards (proxy design, shared flows, versioning)
- Drive API lifecycle governance across teams
- Lead API design reviews and approvals
- API Development & Governance
- Define reusable API policies and templates
- Guide teams on API orchestration, transformations, and error handling
- Ensure APIs meet banking security and compliance standards
- Drive API standardization and reuse across platforms
- Platform Engineering & Operations
- Design scalable and highly available API gateway architecture
- Define deployment models, traffic routing, and failover strategies
- Lead platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management
- Drive capacity planning based on API traffic and usage
- Observability & Reliability
- Define monitoring strategy for APIs and platform
- Establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Drive incident management and root cause analysis (RCA)
- Implement proactive alerting and performance optimization
- Security & Compliance
- Implement API security standards:
- OAuth 2.0
- JWT
- mTLS
- Ensure compliance with banking and regulatory requirements
- Define Zero Trust architecture principles
- Lead security reviews and vulnerability remediation
- DevOps & Automation
- Define CI/CD pipelines for API deployments
- Implement policy enforcement and quality gates
- Drive automation for deployments and operational tasks
- Support GitOps-based delivery models
- Stakeholder Management
- Act as technical SPOC for client stakeholders
- Collaborate with development, infra, and security teams
- Present architecture roadmap and platform improvements
- Support business growth and onboarding of new APIs/partners
Technical Skills – Must Have
Core Skills
- Apigee Hybrid & Apigee Edge (Expert Level)
- API Proxy development
- Policies, Shared Flows
- Traffic management & analytics
- API Security
- OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS
- Threat protection & access control
- API Design
- REST API best practices
- Versioning, governance, documentation
- Experience in banking / BFSI domain
- Exposure to microservices architecture (Spring Boot)
- Understanding of high-volume transaction systems
Experience & Qualifications
- 10–15 years of IT experience
- Minimum 4 years in API architecture
- Robust hands-on experience in Apigee Hybrid and Edge
- Experience in managing large-scale API platforms
- Prior experience in banking/financial services preferred
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