Senior API Solutions Architect - Integrations & Security

540 Arlington (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health, dental and vision insurance

401k with employer match

Life insurance

Professional development

Paid cloud developer accounts

Referral bonuses

HQ office perks

Annual events

Access to tickets

Job summary

540 is seeking an API Solutions Architect to lead secure, scalable API design for a DoW modernization effort in Arlington, VA. You will govern API standards, publish RESTful interfaces, and ensure interoperability across internal platforms and external mission systems.

You will collaborate with engineers, cybersecurity, and stakeholders to implement authentication, authorization, and monitoring, using Apigee and Gravitee to meet DoW policies and enterprise reference architectures.

Qualifications

4+ years API architecture, integration, or software engineering experience.
Experience designing APIs for enterprise-scale distributed systems.
Hands-on experience with Apigee, Gravitee, or a comparable API management platform.
Strong knowledge of RESTful API design, API lifecycle management, and interface governance.
Experience developing API specifications using OpenAPI, Swagger, JSON Schema, or similar frameworks.
Experience configuring API gateways, policies, routing, rate limits, security controls, and monitoring.
Experience implementing API versioning, backward compatibility, and change-management strategies.
Experience with authentication and authorization technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, or PKI.
Experience integrating APIs across cloud-native, microservices, or service-oriented architectures.
Strong understanding of API security and secure software development practices.
Experience with cloud platforms and containerized applications.
Ability to analyze integration challenges and develop scalable, maintainable API solutions.
Strong communication and documentation skills, including the ability to explain architecture decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain the API architecture, standards, and integration patterns supporting WDP.
Design, document, and publish RESTful APIs using OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and related standards.
Configure and manage APIs, policies, gateways, developer portals, and lifecycle processes using Apigee and Gravitee.
Develop API governance processes covering design, review, versioning, publishing, monitoring, and retirement.
Create reusable API patterns, templates, and reference implementations that promote consistency across engineering teams.
Define versioning and change-management strategies that support backward compatibility and platform evolution.
Develop API documentation, integration guides, and onboarding resources for developers and mission partners.
Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to ensure APIs meet functional, performance, scalability, and usability requirements.
Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement authentication, authorization, encryption, rate limiting, threat protection, and other API security controls.
Monitor API usage, performance, availability, and adoption through Apigee, Gravitee, or related observability tools.
Ensure API designs align with DoW reference architectures, enterprise integration standards, and mission objectives.
Participate in architecture reviews and troubleshoot complex API integration, gateway, and interoperability issues.