Senior API Platform Architect

KPG99 INC; Jersey City (NJ); Sur place; USD 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

KPG99 INC is seeking a highly experienced API Platform Architect in New Jersey to lead the design and delivery of enterprise API platforms and reusable API frameworks. You will guide API strategy, security, governance, and platform capabilities for scalable, resilient services.

The role requires hands-on technical leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivery of robust API solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and modern microservices architectures.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software architecture, API platform engineering, and enterprise application development.
• Strong experience designing and building enterprise API platforms and reusable API frameworks from scratch.
• Hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, NGINX, AWS API Gateway, or similar.
• Strong understanding of API security, including OAuth2, JWT, SSO, mTLS, authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.
• Experience implementing load balancing, traffic management, throttling, failover, high availability, and resiliency patterns.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle, SQL, database design, performance tuning, and data access layer architecture.
• Experience with caching, connection pooling, service discovery, fault tolerance, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Dynatrace, or similar.
• Strong understanding of API governance, versioning, lifecycle management, and consumer onboarding processes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Connaissances

Software architecture

API platform engineering

Enterprise application development

Outils

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Automated deployments

Description du poste

• 12+ years of experience in software architecture, API platform engineering, and enterprise application development.
• Strong experience designing and building enterprise API platforms and reusable API frameworks from scratch.
• Hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, NGINX, AWS API Gateway, or similar.
• Strong understanding of API security, including OAuth2, JWT, SSO, mTLS, authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.
• Experience implementing load balancing, traffic management, throttling, failover, high availability, and resiliency patterns.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle, SQL, database design, performance tuning, and data access layer architecture.
• Experience with caching, connection pooling, service discovery, fault tolerance, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Dynatrace, or similar.
• Strong understanding of API governance, versioning, lifecycle management, and consumer onboarding processes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with enterprise data services and reference data platforms.
• Exposure to event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka, MQ, or RabbitMQ.
• Experience in Banking, Capital Markets, Trading, or Financial Services environments.
• Experience supporting multiple applications through a centralized API platform.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, high-volume transactional systems.
• Design and build a scalable enterprise API platform and reusable API framework from the ground up.
• Develop and architect RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design real-time, historical, and point-in-time business data access services.
• Configure and manage API Gateway capabilities including routing, load balancing, throttling, failover, and service orchestration.
• Define and implement API security standards, versioning strategies, governance models, and lifecycle management processes.
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth2, JWT, SSO, and mTLS.
• Design and implement caching, connection pooling, resiliency, and performance optimization solutions.
• Build reusable components and services that can be consumed by multiple internal and external applications.
• Establish API consumer onboarding processes and API access management standards.
• Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, analytics, and usage reporting capabilities.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, database, DevOps, and architecture teams to deliver end-to-end platform solutions.
• Support performance testing, production deployment, troubleshooting, operational readiness, and platform governance.
• Provide architecture leadership, technical guidance, and best practices for API platform adoption across the organization.