Apigee Architect – Enterprise API Platform Lead

About the role

SID Global Solutions is seeking an Apigee Architect to lead the design, governance and operation of its enterprise API platform for a high‑scale banking client. The role will own the end‑to‑end API lifecycle across Apigee Hybrid and Apigee Edge, ensuring security, reliability and scalability.

Key responsibilities

• Design and govern Apigee Hybrid/Edge environments, define architecture standards, and lead API design reviews.
• Create reusable API policies, templates and guide teams on orchestration, transformations and error handling while meeting banking compliance.
• Design scalable, highly available gateway architecture, define deployment models, traffic routing and fail‑over strategies, and manage platform upgrades.
• Define monitoring strategy, establish SLOs/SLIs, implement proactive alerting and conduct incident RCA.
• Implement API security standards (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS), enforce Zero‑Trust principles and lead vulnerability remediation.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and support GitOps‑based delivery.
• Act as technical single point of contact for client stakeholders, present roadmaps and support onboarding of new APIs/partners.

Required profile

• Proven experience as an Apigee Architect or senior API platform engineer.
• Strong background in banking or regulated industries with emphasis on security and compliance.
• Hands‑on experience designing, operating and scaling Apigee Hybrid and Edge.
• Ability to collaborate with development, infrastructure and security teams.

Required skills

• Apigee Hybrid, Apigee Edge
• API design, proxy development, shared flows, versioning
• OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, Zero‑Trust architecture
• CI/CD, GitOps, automation tools
• Monitoring, SLO/SLI definition, alerting
• Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering