Senior Apigee Architect: API Governance Lead

Robotics Technologies LLC; Minnesota; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotics Technologies LLC in Minnesota seeks an experienced API Architect to own Apigee architecture, governance, and security for APIs supporting utility and enterprise processes. You will drive lifecycle automation, developer enablement, monitoring, and operational readiness across large organizations.

Qualifications include extensive API-management experience with Apigee, strong API design knowledge, cloud/container deployment, and leadership of governance initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive enterprise integration and API-management experience with hands-on Apigee delivery.
• Strong knowledge of API design, gateway policies, security, analytics, cloud/container deployment, and DevOps.
• Experience leading API governance and consumer enablement across large organizations.
• Apigee certification or equivalent advanced API-management expertise preferred.

Responsibilities

• Owns Apigee architecture, API governance, security, lifecycle automation, product management, developer enablement, monitoring, and operational readiness for APIs supporting utility customer and enterprise processes.
• Define API design, naming, versioning, documentation, reuse, deprecation, ownership, review, and publication standards.
• Design API proxies, shared flows, policies, products, plans, applications, developer access, quotas, and traffic-management controls.
• Set security standards for OAuth/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, API keys, threat protection, CORS, secrets, certificates, and sensitive-data handling.
• Lead API enablement for SAP IS-U, CDG, MDM, Salesforce, portals, mobile, payments, GIS, analytics, and third-party consumers.
• Define developer portal, API catalog, onboarding, subscription, entitlement, support, and adoption processes.
• Set monitoring, logging, analytics, traceability, latency, error-rate, capacity, availability, and alerting requirements.
• Establish CI/CD, automated policy testing, configuration management, environment promotion, rollback, and release controls.
• Lead performance analysis, production incidents, security remediation, platform upgrades, disaster recovery, and operational-readiness reviews.
• Facilitate design governance, mentor API teams, manage vendor escalations, and maintain reference patterns and runbooks.

Skills

Apigee architecture

API governance

Security standards

DevOps practices

Cloud deployment

CI/CD automation

Monitoring

Developer enablement

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Apigee

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Splunk

Grafana

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Kafka

MQ

Job description

Robotics Technologies LLC in Minnesota seeks an experienced API Architect to own Apigee architecture, governance, and security for APIs supporting utility and enterprise processes. You will drive lifecycle automation, developer enablement, monitoring, and operational readiness across large organizations.

Qualifications include extensive API-management experience with Apigee, strong API design knowledge, cloud/container deployment, and leadership of governance initiatives.