Senior API Platform Architect

Job Description

• 12+ years of experience in software architecture, API platform engineering, and enterprise application development.
• Strong experience designing and building enterprise API platforms and reusable API frameworks from scratch.
• Hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, NGINX, AWS API Gateway, or similar.
• Strong understanding of API security, including OAuth2, JWT, SSO, mTLS, authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.
• Experience implementing load balancing, traffic management, throttling, failover, high availability, and resiliency patterns.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle, SQL, database design, performance tuning, and data access layer architecture.
• Experience with caching, connection pooling, service discovery, fault tolerance, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Dynatrace, or similar.
• Strong understanding of API governance, versioning, lifecycle management, and consumer onboarding processes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with enterprise data services and reference data platforms.
• Exposure to event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka, MQ, or RabbitMQ.
• Experience in Banking, Capital Markets, Trading, or Financial Services environments.
• Experience supporting multiple applications through a centralized API platform.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, high-volume transactional systems.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable enterprise API platform and reusable API framework from the ground up.
• Develop and architect RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design real-time, historical, and point-in-time business data access services.
• Configure and manage API Gateway capabilities including routing, load balancing, throttling, failover, and service orchestration.
• Define and implement API security standards, versioning strategies, governance models, and lifecycle management processes.
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth2, JWT, SSO, and mTLS.
• Design and implement caching, connection pooling, resiliency, and performance optimization solutions.
• Build reusable components and services that can be consumed by multiple internal and external applications.
• Establish API consumer onboarding processes and API access management standards.
• Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, analytics, and usage reporting capabilities.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, database, DevOps, and architecture teams to deliver end-to-end platform solutions.
• Support performance testing, production deployment, troubleshooting, operational readiness, and platform governance.
• Provide architecture leadership, technical guidance, and best practices for API platform adoption across the organization.