Apigee API Architect

APIGEE API Architect Developer - 10 to 12 Years

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead enterprisewide API architecture, strategy, and governance, with deep ownership of Apigeebased API platforms.
• Architect, design, and oversee delivery of scalable, secure, highperformance API ecosystems aligned with organizational integration strategy.
• Establish and enforce API standards, design guidelines, governance models, and reusable patterns across multiple engineering teams.
• Own endtoend API lifecycle management from conceptualization and design to deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retirement.
• Drive architecture of secure, reusable, and futureready APIs, ensuring alignment with business, security, and performance requirements.
• Enable API monetization, analytics, traffic management, and developer experience through effective platform engineering.
• Collaborate with product, business, backend, frontend, and security teams to define integration patterns for internal, partner, and external consumers.
• Lead transformation initiatives including migration from legacy integrations to modern APIled connectivity.
• Oversee scalability planning, performance tuning, incident management, and production stabilization for API platforms.
• Mentor engineering teams on API design, Apigee capabilities, platform best practices, and architectural thinking.

Education

• BE / B.Tech degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Required Experience & Skills

• 10 to 12 years of strong experience in API architecture, integration platforms, and enterprise API governance.
• Deep handson experience with Apigee Edge / Apigee X, API gateway implementation, advanced policies, shared flows, flow hooks, and lifecycle governance.
• Strong expertise in RESTful API design, APIfirst principles, domaindriven API modeling, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Solid knowledge of API security frameworks including OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, API keys, and tokenbased authentication.
• Experience with API proxies, policies, traffic management, quota enforcement, and caching strategies.
• Proficiency in API analytics, monitoring, debugging, and performance optimization using Apigee and related tools.
• Strong experience integrating APIs with backend microservices, legacy systems, and distributed architectures.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platforms (GCP) and cloudnative networking, IAM, VPC, load balancing, and API runtime components.
• Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger, contractfirst development, and API documentation practices.
• Exposure to API monetization, developer portal management, and partner onboarding workflows.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and API deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with event-driven integrations, messaging systems, and asynchronous patterns.
• Understanding of networking foundations including VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, and load balancers.
• Experience with artifact and dependency management tools like Nexus, Artifactory.
• Preferred: Domain experience in General Insurance (Health, Motor, Travel, Home).

Soft Skills

• Demonstrates strong ownership, leadership maturity, adaptability, and a solutionoriented mindset.
• Communicates clearly and collaborates effectively across architecture, business, and engineering teams.
• Exhibits high professional integrity, reliability, and structured stakeholder engagement.