APIGEE & Real-Time API & Data Integration Architect

Keylent Inc; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Keylent Inc. in the United States seeks a Lead Integration Architect to design and steer integration initiatives across Java and Spring Boot services, SaaS components, and data platforms.

You will establish standards for API-led, event-driven, and real-time integrations to ensure consistency and scalability. You will architect high-throughput Kafka pipelines with careful event contracts and schema evolution, enable real-time IoT connections (MQTT), manage APIs with Google Apigee, and enforce

Responsibilities

• Lead integration design across Java and Spring Boot services, SaaS components, third-party platforms, and data systems
• Establish standards and reusable patterns for API-led, event-driven, and real-time integrations
• Architect high-throughput Kafka pipelines, including event contracts, partitioning, delivery guarantees, replay, schema evolution, monitoring, and failure handling
• Design integrations with real-time IoT devices using appropriate messaging and connectivity patterns, including MQTT
• Lead API management strategy using Google Apigee, including API lifecycle, gateway policies, versioning, traffic management, analytics, and developer access
• Guide integrations using REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC, as well as messaging technologies such as JMS and AMQP
• Design secure integrations using zero-trust principles, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, identity federation, and appropriate secrets and access management
• Establish schema registry, data contract, metadata, and data governance practices across services and pipelines
• Guide data integration patterns with Snowflake and other analytical platforms, partnering with data engineering teams on reliability, quality, and governance
• Drive CI/CD and automated quality practices for services, APIs, and integration workflows
• Evaluate and guide the secure use of AI/LLM capabilities and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in product and engineering contexts

Job description

Keylent Inc. in the United States seeks a Lead Integration Architect to design and steer integration initiatives across Java and Spring Boot services, SaaS components, and data platforms.

You will establish standards for API-led, event-driven, and real-time integrations to ensure consistency and scalability. You will architect high-throughput Kafka pipelines with careful event contracts and schema evolution, enable real-time IoT connections (MQTT), manage APIs with Google Apigee, and enforce