API Connect Designer / Architect - On-Site

Valleysoft; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Valleysoft seeks an experienced API Connect Designer/Architect to shape enterprise API management across complex landscapes. You will define architecture, standards, and governance, partnering with architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, and DevOps teams to deliver secure, scalable APIs.

The role emphasizes REST/SOAP integration, OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect/JWT security, and governance across the API lifecycle, with heavy collaboration across enterprise stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field.
• 10–12 years of API management and integration architecture experience in large enterprise environments.
• Hands-on IBM API Connect experience in designing enterprise API management solutions and configuring API Gateway policies.
• Strong background designing REST APIs, working with SOAP web services, and supporting microservices integration.
• Experience connecting APIs with databases, applications, middleware, and external systems across enterprise backend integrations.
• Experience modernizing integration landscapes and exposing legacy services through modern APIs.
• Solid understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, and XML.
• Hands-on experience implementing API security controls (authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling).
• Experience designing secure API architectures using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS/SSL, and mTLS.
• Experience integrating API platforms with enterprise IAM solutions or identity providers.
• Banking or FinTech experience with API security architectures and governance.
• Hands-on enterprise API governance frameworks and reusable patterns.
• Experience governing the API lifecycle from design to retirement.
• Experience conducting formal API architecture and design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect enterprise API management solutions using IBM API Connect.
• Define scalable, secure API platform architectures.
• Govern the full API lifecycle from design to retirement.
• Establish API standards, guidelines, naming conventions, and reusable patterns.
• Design and implement API security policies (authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling).
• Configure and govern API Gateway policies and security mechanisms.
• Design API integrations with internal applications, external systems, and third-party services.
• Define API architecture patterns aligned with enterprise standards.
• Establish API governance frameworks, standards, policies, and best practices.
• Review API designs for governance and architecture compliance.
• Collaborate with enterprise and solution architects to align API solutions with broader architecture.
• Work with development, integration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps teams.
• Translate business requirements into scalable API and integration architectures.
• Design security using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and related protocols.

Skills

API design

API architecture

IBM API Connect

REST APIs

API security

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWT

SOAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

IBM API Connect

SOAP web services

HTTP/HTTPS

JSON

XML

TLS/SSL

mTLS

Job description

Valleysoft is an IT services provider delivering enterprise technology solutions, software development, process management, and infrastructure support for clients around the world. Working across complex business environments, the company helps organizations design, build, and support the systems that keep critical operations running securely and efficiently.

This role is focused on shaping enterprise-grade API management capabilities for complex integration landscapes. As an API Connect Designer / Architect, you will help define the architecture, standards, and governance practices that support scalable, secure, and reliable API ecosystems, while partnering closely with architecture, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect enterprise API management solutions using IBM API Connect.
• Define scalable, secure, and highly available API platform architectures.
• Design and govern the full API lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, versioning, monitoring, and retirement.
• Establish enterprise API standards, design guidelines, naming conventions, and reusable patterns.
• Design and implement API security policies, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, and access controls.
• Configure and govern API Gateway policies and security mechanisms.
• Design API integrations with internal applications, external systems, and third-party services.
• Define API architecture patterns aligned with enterprise integration and technology standards.
• Establish API governance frameworks, standards, policies, and best practices.
• Review API designs and ensure compliance with architecture and governance standards.
• Partner with enterprise and solution architects to align API solutions with broader enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with application development, integration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps teams.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable API and integration architectures.
• Design API security using standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and related protocols.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10-12 years of experience in API management and integration architecture, including work in large enterprise integration environments.
• Hands-on experience with IBM API Connect, including designing enterprise API management solutions and configuring API Gateway policies.
• Strong background designing REST APIs, working with SOAP web services, and supporting microservices integration.
• Experience connecting APIs with databases, applications, middleware, and external systems across enterprise backend integrations.
• Experience modernizing integration landscapes, including exposing legacy services through modern APIs.
• Solid understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, and XML.
• Hands-on experience implementing API security controls, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, routing, and related security policies.
• Experience designing secure API architectures using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS/SSL, and mTLS.
• Experience integrating API platforms with enterprise IAM solutions or identity providers.
• Background in Banking or FinTech environments, with experience designing API security architectures and controls to protect against common API threats.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise API governance frameworks, including API design standards, naming conventions, documentation, versioning, and reusable API patterns.
• Experience governing the API lifecycle from design and approval through deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retirement.
• Experience conducting formal API architecture and design reviews and working through cross-functional API approval and governance processes.