Job Description

A senior developer or architect with integration platform expertise, strong 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).