Senior Enterprise API Architect - Open Banking

Capgemini Philippines Corp.; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Philippines Corp. is seeking an experienced API Architecture Leader to define and own the enterprise API strategy, shape standards, and drive governance across the API lifecycle.

You will collaborate with business, product, and delivery teams to translate capabilities into well-defined API products and service contracts, ensuring scalable and compliant solutions. The role emphasizes leadership in API security, cloud-native patterns, and DevSecOps practices, guiding engineering teams

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise application, integration, and solution architecture within large-scale organizations.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise API strategies, API-led architectures, and integration platforms.
• Proven experience in the banking, financial services, or fintech sector, with strong understanding of Open Banking ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise API architecture strategy, establishing reference architectures, integration patterns, standards, and roadmaps.
• Lead API and integration solution design using RESTful APIs, event-driven and microservices architectures, and domain-driven design principles.
• Establish and govern enterprise API standards, including design guidelines, security frameworks, and versioning strategies.
• Partner with business, product, enterprise architecture, and delivery teams to translate capabilities into API products with service contracts and lifecycle management.
• Provide architecture leadership and oversight across the API lifecycle, including architecture reviews and governance.
• Drive API security and risk management practices, aligning with enterprise security controls and regulatory obligations.
• Guide engineering and platform teams on API management platforms, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and deployment patterns.
• Champion API governance, catalog management, and reuse to reduce duplication and technical debt.
• Collaborate with enterprise and domain architects to align with target-state architecture and modernization goals.
• Monitor emerging technologies and banking standards to enhance the API ecosystem.

Skills

API architecture

Enterprise integration

Cloud-native

DevSecOps

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder leadership

Job description

Capgemini Philippines Corp. is seeking an experienced API Architecture Leader to define and own the enterprise API strategy, shape standards, and drive governance across the API lifecycle.

You will collaborate with business, product, and delivery teams to translate capabilities into well-defined API products and service contracts, ensuring scalable and compliant solutions. The role emphasizes leadership in API security, cloud-native patterns, and DevSecOps practices, guiding engineering teams