Role Summary :

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 :

a. API Architecture & Design

b. Platform Engineering & Operations

c. API Governance & Security

The architect will act as a single technical anchor across development, platform, and business teams in a high-scale banking environment.

Notice Period : Immediate to 30 days

Key Responsibilities :

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Security & Compliance :

- Implement API security standards :

a. OAuth 2.0

b. JWT

c. mTLS

- Ensure compliance with banking and regulatory requirements

- Define Zero Trust architecture principles

- Lead security reviews and vulnerability remediation

6. 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

7. 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) :

a. API Proxy development

b. Policies, Shared Flows

c. Traffic management & analytics

- API Security :

a. OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS

b. Threat protection & access control

- API Design :

a. REST API best practices

b. Versioning, governance, documentation

Platform & Tools :

- API Gateway architecture & operations

- CI/CD : Jenkins / GitHub / Terraform

- Monitoring : Dynatrace / Prometheus / Grafana

- NGINX (basic understanding for routing & SSL)

Nice to Have :

- Experience in banking / BFSI domain

- Exposure to microservices architecture (Spring Boot)

- Understanding of high-volume transaction systems

Experience & Qualifications :

- 12 to 15 years of IT experience

- Minimum 4+ years in API architecture

- Strong hands-on experience in Apigee Hybrid and Edge

- Experience in managing large-scale API platforms

- Prior experience in banking/financial services preferred