ApiGee Architect

Apigee / API Management Architect

Experience

Typically 8–15+ years in software integration, API management, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture, with strong hands-on experience in Apigee.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise-wide API management architecture using Apigee.
• Define API standards, governance, lifecycle management, versioning, and reusable API patterns.
• Design API proxy architectures between consumer applications and backend systems.
• Implement OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, API keys, mTLS, threat protection, and other API security patterns.
• Design Apigee policies for:
  • Authentication/authorization
  • Rate limiting and quotas
  • Spike arrest
  • Caching
  • Request/response transformation
  • Fault handling
  • Service callouts
  • Message logging
• Architect integrations with microservices, legacy systems, SaaS platforms, databases, and cloud services.
• Design Apigee hybrid deployments and networking patterns where required. Apigee hybrid places the runtime plane in the customer's Kubernetes environment while the management plane is managed by Google.
• Design north-south and east-west API traffic flows, including load balancing, VPC connectivity, Private Service Connect, DNS, TLS, and firewall requirements.
• Define API products, developer onboarding, developer portal strategy, and API consumption models.
• Establish API monitoring, logging, analytics, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Define CI/CD architecture for Apigee using Git, Maven, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab/Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Apigee APIs/CLI.
• Lead API modernization initiatives, including exposing legacy applications through standardized REST APIs.
• Establish API governance and reusable enterprise patterns.
• Perform architecture reviews and provide technical leadership to development and integration teams.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving API latency, networking, security, policies, backend connectivity, and traffic spikes.
• Evaluate emerging API/AI gateway requirements. Current Apigee capabilities also include AI gateway controls and transformation of APIs into agent-oriented tools.