Apigee Architect Full-Stack

Job Title: Full-Stack Apigee Architect
Location: Exton, Pennsylvania, USA
Work Arrangement: Onsite | Full-Time
Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

SID Global Solutions (SIDGS) is seeking an experienced Full-Stack Apigee Architect to lead the design, architecture, implementation, and governance of enterprise-grade API management and integration solutions.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Google Apigee, API Management, Google Cloud Platform, microservices, Kubernetes, API security, integration architecture, and DevOps. This role requires an architect who can work across the complete API lifecycle—from API strategy and design through implementation, deployment, security, performance optimization, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

API & Apigee Architecture

• Design scalable, secure, highly available enterprise API management architectures using Google Apigee.
• Define API strategy, API standards, governance, lifecycle management, versioning, and reusable architecture patterns.
• Architect and review Apigee API proxies, shared flows, policies, API products, developer applications, and developer portals.
• Design API mediation, routing, transformation, traffic management, caching, quota, spike arrest, and fault-handling strategies.
• Evaluate existing API ecosystems and recommend modernization and optimization approaches.
• Provide technical leadership for Apigee implementation and migration initiatives.

Apigee X & Apigee Hybrid

• Provide hands-on architecture and implementation expertise with Apigee X and/or Apigee Hybrid.
• Design Apigee Hybrid runtime architecture and integration with Kubernetes/GKE environments.
• Work with runtime planes, management planes, networking, ingress, certificates, security, and platform configuration.
• Participate in Apigee upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and production troubleshooting.
• Establish best practices for Apigee environment, organization, deployment, and configuration management.

Required Technical Skills

Must Have

• 10+ years of experience in software, integration, API, or solution architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Apigee.
• Strong knowledge of Apigee X and/or Apigee Hybrid.
• Extensive experience in API Management and API Architecture.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, API lifecycle, API governance, and API security.
• Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, API Keys, and authentication/authorization.
• Strong Google Cloud Platform experience.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes and GKE.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and enterprise integration.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex enterprise API and integration issues.
• Strong architecture documentation and communication skills.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Docker
• Kafka / event-driven architecture
• Cloud Run
• Service Mesh
• Java, Node.js, Python, or another backend programming language
• API Portal / Developer Portal
• Google Cloud Platform networking and security
• Enterprise integration platforms
• Observability and monitoring platforms
• Experience with Apigee migrations from legacy API management platforms
• Banking, Financial Services, or other highly regulated industry experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree or relevant professional certifications are a plus.