Apigee Lead Engineer

Cognizant; London Colney; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant seeks an experienced Apigee Lead Engineer to drive migration from Apigee Edge to X, bridging development and operations with automation and reliable deployments.

You'll lead API strategy, mentor teams, and integrate APIs into CI/CD pipelines using AWS and Azure DevOps, delivering scalable, secure enterprise APIs.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Google Apigee, including migration from Edge to X.
• Senior leadership, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration across executive levels.
• Strong background in cloud architectures (AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and monitor solutions using AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, Dynamo, S3).
• Integrate APIs into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub workflows.
• Lead migration projects from Apigee Edge to Apigee X with minimal disruption.
• Design and manage applications aligned to business needs, overseeing API lifecycle.
• Drive API strategy, provide technical support, and generate insights through analytics.

Skills

Google Apigee Edge to X

Leadership & mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Terraform

Ansible

AWS services

Azure DevOps CI/CD

Python

Docker

API security (OAuth/JWT)

Node.js

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure DevOps

Job description

Summary

Apigee Lead Engineer with strong expertise in Google Apigee, including migration from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. Skilled in bridging development and operations by automating workflows, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring reliable software deployment. Proven ability to manage infrastructure, monitor performance, and collaborate across teams to maintain scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

Key Role And Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and monitor solutions using AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, Dynamo, S3 etc.)
• Integrate APIs into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Github workflows
• Lead and execute migration projects from Apigee Edge to Apigee X, ensuring minimal disruption and optimal performance
• Design, deploy, and manage applications tailored to business needs, while customizing platforms and overseeing the full API lifecycle using Apigee Edge and X.
• Drive API strategy execution, provide technical support, and generate insights through analytics to enhance integrations and documentation.

Key Skills For This Role

• Security Cleared or Clearable.
• Excellent leadership communication, coaching and mentoring the team.
• Senior stakeholder engagement, ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation including Executive Directors. This includes economic considerations for the product roadmap.
• Extensive experience with Google Apigee, including migration from Edge to X
• Ability to generate custom analytics reports for API consumption and errors
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) is a must
• Proficiency with AWS cloud tools and architecture, including deploying microservices using ECS, ECR and Fargate.
• Hands-on experience with Python
• Hands-on experience with Docker.
• Experience in setting up and managing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of build and deployment methodologies for distributed systems
• Solid experience with enterprise-grade applications and systems
• Proficiency in Node.js-based web applications
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Implementation of API security and access control (OAuth, API keys, JWT, etc.)
• Familiarity with API design patterns, best practices, and performance optimisation