APIGEE Lead - API Architecture (6-10 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Design, build, maintain, and support the Apigee infrastructure.

- Define overall API architecture, API implementations, integration, and deployment of API management platforms such as APIGEE.

- Ability to understand pilot implementation plan, Reference Architecture, develop governance to adhere to those architecture guidelines, CI / CD methodology and processes, API Versioning strategy, and API Monetization strategy.

- Best practices and guidelines covering Security, Audit, Error handling, logging frameworks, API Design guidelines, etc.

- Design and implement API Gateway solutions.

- Lead analytical and consulting working sessions to solve technical problems faced by the application teams trying to onboard to Apigee API Gateway

- Facilitate DR (Disaster Recovery) exercises to ensure that the team is fully prepared in the event of a catastrophe.

- Help troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to the Apigee platform.

- Lead root cause analysis session to understand what causes particular issues in Production and come up with solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future.

- Ensure documentation is created and remains updated for Apigee-related work.

- Mentor Junior Engineers to acquire Apigee knowledge and more experiences.

- Authentication Authorization mechanisms - Experience with API security standards and implementation (OAuth, Open ID)

- Participate in business requirements and functional requirements review meetings which involve devising, strategizing, and explaining technical specifications and the way to achieve software solutions.

- Creation of Technical Specifications, Design Documents, and data mapping keeping in mind the best practices and principles of Integration design and architecture.

- Establish best practices and implementation guidelines for APIGEE implementation.

- Reducing build costs by designing and implementing reusable assets.

- Preparation of Implementation plan and execution.

- API design in conjunction with the API development teams.

- Complete knowledge of Apigee Gateway and should be able to analyze and propose solutions for any operations issues.

- Enforcing API specification standards.

- Responsible for the design of API Gateway configuration.

- Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best practices especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0 REST, SOAP, Kafka/MQ, JSON, Microservices, etc.

- Develop and deploy API policies using the Apigee X Platform.

- Monitoring/logging tools : Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Log Analytics.

- Significant experience in DevOps and the CI/CD process, especially deploying API Proxies/Products in Apigee through CI/CD.

- Review of detailed designs, to ensure appropriate security, scalability, reliability, end-user experience, and business reports and analytics.

- Developing proof of concepts, as needed.

- Code Reviews of the APIs.

- Ensuring that the solution conforms to strategic architecture.

- Working with infrastructure teams to ensure correct setup of servers, load balancers, firewalls, and monitoring across the board.

- Assisting the project team with any tech issues related to API design, performance, and gateway

Requirements :

- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science.

- Good communication skills in person and over the phone.

- Strong knowledge of Apigee infrastructure and development.

- Solid understanding of API design and API management.

- Experience with an API Gateway solution.

- Must have good experience in APIGEE and GCP Infrastructure

- Experienced in working with infrastructure teams to set up servers, load balancers, firewalls, etc.

- Understanding of OWASP, SAML, OAuth, SSL, and various other security tools, technologies, and guidelines.

- Expert in developing and consuming Restful, SOAP services.

- Good understanding of APIGEE Architecture.