APIGEE Architect (Hands on Experience needed)

SID Global Solutions; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,600,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

SID Global Solutions is seeking an experienced Apigee Architect to lead design, governance, and operations of enterprise API platforms using Apigee Hybrid and Apigee Edge. This role requires end-to-end ownership across platform engineering, API governance, security, and operations in a high-scale banking environment.

You will drive API lifecycle governance, establish architecture standards, and ensure secure, scalable gateway designs.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years IT experience.
• Minimum 4+ years in API architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience in Apigee Hybrid and Edge.
• Experience in managing large-scale API platforms.
• Prior experience in banking/financial services preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern Apigee Hybrid and Apigee Edge environments
• Define API architecture standards (proxy design, shared flows, versioning)
• Drive API lifecycle governance across teams
• Lead API design reviews and approvals
• Design scalable and highly available API gateway architecture
• Define deployment models, traffic routing, and failover strategies
• Lead security reviews and vulnerability remediation

Skills

Policies & Shared Flows

Traffic management

API security

OAuth 2.0 / JWT / mTLS

Threat protection

API design

Tools

API Gateway architecture & operations

NGINX

Job description

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Apigee Architect to lead the design, governance, and operations of enterprise API platforms using Apigee Hybrid and Apigee Edge.

This role requires end-to-end ownership across:

• Platform Engineering & Operations
• API Governance & Security

The architect will act as a single technical anchor across development, platform, and business teams in a high-scale banking environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and govern Apigee Hybrid and Apigee Edge environments
• Define API architecture standards (proxy design, shared flows, versioning)
• Drive API lifecycle governance across teams
• Lead API design reviews and approvals

2. API Development & Governance

• Define reusable API policies and templates
• Guide teams on API orchestration, transformations, and error handling
• Ensure APIs meet banking security and compliance standards
• Drive API standardization and reuse across platforms

3. Platform Engineering & Operations

• Design scalable and highly available API gateway architecture
• Define deployment models, traffic routing, and failover strategies
• Lead platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management
• Drive capacity planning based on API traffic and usage

4. Observability & Reliability

• Define monitoring strategy for APIs and platform
• Establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Drive incident management and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Implement proactive alerting and performance optimization

5. Security & Compliance

• Implement API security standards:
• OAuth 2.0
• JWT
• mTLS
• Ensure compliance with banking and regulatory requirements
• Define Zero Trust architecture principles
• Lead security reviews and vulnerability remediation

6. DevOps & Automation

• Implement policy enforcement and quality gates
• Drive automation for deployments and operational tasks
• Support GitOps-based delivery models

7. Stakeholder Management

• Act as technical SPOC for client stakeholders
• Collaborate with development, infra, and security teams
• Present architecture roadmap and platform improvements
• Support business growth and onboarding of new APIs/partners

Technical Skills – Must Have

Core Skills

• Policies, Shared Flows
• Traffic management & analytics
• API Security
• OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS
• Threat protection & access control
• API Design

Platform & Tools

• API Gateway architecture & operations
• NGINX (basic understanding for routing & SSL)

Nice to Have

• Experience in banking / BFSI domain
• Exposure to microservices architecture (Spring Boot)
• Understanding of high-volume transaction systems

Experience & Qualifications

• 10-15 years of IT experience
• Minimum 4+ years in API architecture
• Strong hands-on experience in Apigee Hybrid and Edge
• Experience in managing large-scale API platforms
• Prior experience in banking/financial services preferred