API Designer

Role: API Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve API architecture principles standards and best practices (REST GraphQL event-based APIs).
• Drive API governance including versioning lifecycle management and security standards.
• Lead design of reusable API patterns and components for integration and platform teams.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to embed API design and security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Evaluate and implement API management tools (Kong AWS API Gateway Azure API Management).
• Define authentication authorization caching and observability models for APIs.
• Review existing APIs to ensure enterprise-wide consistency and best practices.
• Contribute to event-driven architecture strategy (Kafka EventBridge SNS/SQS).
• Provide technical leadership mentoring and conduct API design training sessions.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science or equivalent.
• 7 years in software engineering; 4 years in API architecture and integration.
• Expertise in RESTful API design OpenAPI/Swagger JSON Schema and GraphQL.
• Strong programming background ( Python or Java).
• Experience with frameworks like Express FastAPI Spring Boot or NestJS.
• Knowledge of OAuth2.0 OpenID Connect API Keys and mTLS.
• Hands-on with API management platforms (Kong AWS or Azure API Gateway).
• Exposure to Docker Kubernetes and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with asynchronous/event-driven APIs (Kafka SQS EventBridge).
• Cloud experience (AWS Azure or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.
• API observability tools (Prometheus OpenTelemetry) and API-related certifications preferred.

  Role: API Architect

  Key Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve API architecture principles standards and best practices (REST GraphQL event-based APIs).
• Drive API governance including versioning lifecycle management and security standards.
• Lead design of reusable API patterns and components for integration and platform teams.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to embed API design and security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Evaluate and implement API management tools (Kong AWS API Gateway Azure API Management).
• Define authentication authorization caching and observability models for APIs.
• Review existing APIs to ensure enterprise-wide consistency and best practices.
• Contribute to event-driven architecture strategy (Kafka EventBridge SNS/SQS).
• Provide technical leadership mentoring and conduct API design training sessions.

• Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science or equivalent.
• 7 years in software engineering; 4 years in API architecture and integration.
• Expertise in RESTful API design OpenAPI/Swagger JSON Schema and GraphQL.
• Strong programming background ( Python or Java).
• Experience with frameworks like Express FastAPI Spring Boot or NestJS.
• Knowledge of OAuth2.0 OpenID Connect API Keys and mTLS.
• Hands-on with API management platforms (Kong AWS or Azure API Gateway).
• Exposure to Docker Kubernetes and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with asynchronous/event-driven APIs (Kafka SQS EventBridge).
• Cloud experience (AWS Azure or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.
• API observability tools (Prometheus OpenTelemetry) and API-related certifications preferred.