Senior Enterprise API Platform Architect

KPG99 INC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Skills

Software architecture

API platform engineering

Enterprise application development

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Automated deployments

Job description

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.