APIGEE Architect – Enterprise API Platform Lead

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Apigee Architect to lead design, governance, and operations of enterprise API platforms using Apigee Hybrid and Edge in a high‑scale banking environment.

Key responsibilities

• Design and govern Apigee Hybrid and Edge environments, define architecture standards and lead API design reviews.
• Define reusable API policies, guide teams on orchestration, ensure security and compliance.
• Design scalable, highly‑available gateway architecture, manage deployments, upgrades and capacity planning.
• Define monitoring strategy, establish SLOs/SLIs, drive incident management and performance optimization.
• Implement API security standards (OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS) and lead security reviews.
• Define CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments and support GitOps delivery models.
• Act as technical SPOC for stakeholders, collaborate across teams and present roadmap.

Required profile

• 10–15 years of IT experience with at least 4 years in API architecture.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Apigee Hybrid and Edge in large‑scale platforms.
• Prior experience in banking or financial services is preferred.

Required skills

• Apigee Hybrid & Apigee Edge (expert level)
• API proxy development, policies, shared flows
• API security – OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS
• REST API design, versioning, governance
• CI/CD tools – Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform
• Monitoring – Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana
• Basic NGINX knowledge