Integration & API Architect

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise integration architecture covering APIs, messaging, event streaming, and interoperability standards.
• Establish API governance standards including lifecycle management, naming conventions, versioning, documentation, and deprecation policies.
• Design secure API access models using OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, token scopes, and API security best practices.
• Define event-driven architecture standards including schemas, retries, dead-letter queues, idempotency, and event ordering.
• Establish data contract governance including schema validation, contract testing, and CI/CD integration practices.
• Define resiliency patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, failover, throttling, caching, and timeout management.
• Govern the use of API gateways, integration platforms, and messaging technologies across enterprise environments.
• Lead onboarding and integration activities for internal systems, external platforms, and third-party vendors.
• Define observability standards including logging, distributed tracing, telemetry, monitoring, and SLA/SLO reporting.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical assurance for integration implementations and production readiness.
• Develop reusable integration standards, reference architectures, technical documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure integrations meet regulatory and data protection requirements.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Strong expertise in API architecture, RESTful services, event-driven systems, streaming platforms, and microservices integration.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, and integration reliability patterns.
• Strong knowledge of API security, identity federation, and secure service communication.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks and enforcing standards across multiple teams and vendors.
• Expertise in integration observability, monitoring, centralized logging, and telemetry frameworks.
• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in enterprise integration architecture, middleware engineering, or API platform design.
• Hands-on experience with API gateways, messaging platforms, event streaming technologies, and cloud-native integrations.
• Experience delivering enterprise integration governance, versioning strategies, service catalogs, and automated testing practices.
• Experience working in multi-vendor enterprise delivery environments.

• API Management: OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Swagger, Postman

• API Gateways: Azure API Management, Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft
• Messaging & Streaming: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Event Hubs
• Cloud & DevOps: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, Azure DevOps
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, ELK Stack

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Ability to simplify complex integration challenges into scalable solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and risk management capabilities.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and delivery-focused mindset.