Apigee Architect

You will be working on the development of web and mobile applications in the Cloud and in environments of the customer's choice.

Define the API roadmap, strategy and solution for an enterprise customer, having good knowledge of SOA, API frameworks.

Mentor teams for designing, implementing, testing and deploying the APIs using the latest technologies and best practices out there in the market.

Design and implement API management using API management software like Apigee which would include API proxies, mashups, northbound and southbound security,

rate limiting, analytics, monetization and developer portals

Understand and communicate risks, issues, challenges and status/progress of the project

Facilitate DR (Disaster Recovery) exercises to ensure that the team are fully prepared in the event of a catastrophe

Lead Capacity Planning and Management activities to ensure that the Apigee platform will be able to handle additional transactions in the future

Lead team to document requirements, design, architecture and test scripts.

Experience architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems.

Familiarity with middleware and cloud technologies like NOSQL datastores, Google Cloud and Mobile app development.

Ability to lead architecture discussions and influence key decision makers around deployment topologies, scaling, performance and sizing.

Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Ability and willingness to travel as required.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in IT consulting

Must have played a leadership role in API Web and SOA, ESB, Integration implementations

1 to 5 years of hands-on experience with an API management software like Apigee or equivalent with the knowledge of API mashups,

analytics, developer networks, monetization models and security.

Certification in Apigee is preferred.

4 to 7 years of experience in SOA middleware Integration technologies

Excellent Development experience with Java and other languages like JavaScript, Python, Node.js.

Knowledge and Experience of 12 Factor Development, with multi tiered applications design.

Experience working with OWASP security threat protection strategies and implementation

Experience with web services related standards such as HTTP, REST, SOAP, OAuth, OpenID, JWT.

Experience building and delivering Proofs of Concept (PoCs) independently and effectively

Excellent knowledge of REST/JSON with working knowledge of other protocols and Design patterns.

In depth knowledge of HTTP(s) /HTTPS protocol, web services

Knowhow of Cassandra, ZooKeeper, Postgres, LDAP, AD etc.

In depth working experience in security and identity protocols such as OpenID, TLS, OAuth, SAML, SSO

Experience in SOA design and implementation and solution integration

Working knowledge of cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure)