Position: API Architect (APIGEE)

Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite)

Duration: Fulltime

Job Responsibilities:

Produce all required design specifications, work with the Project Manager to create detailed technical task lists, provide technical guidance to the project team, and enforce Apigee project standards and best practices -Use Apigee recommended best practices and customer inputs to produce design artifacts and technical implementation tasks required for project execution 

Provide leadership and advice for on-premises and cloud-based customer implementations-Guide the work of Technology Specialists on assigned projects, preferably experience in GCP

Work with the customers operations team to implement the requirements of infrastructure components -In cooperation with customers, build and execute API functional and performance test plans 

Required Skills:

12 years of experience in technology consulting, enterprise and solutions architecture and architectural frameworks.

4 years of experience in Enterprise Integration/Middleware Solutions, API Management in building solutions and architectural frameworks.

4 years of experience in API Development and Strategy

Extensive project experience with designing and implementing APIs using Apigee Edge

4 years of experience in implementing API Security and Access Control (OAuth/SAML, Web SSO, SSL etc.)

Knowledge of API best practices and performance tuning

API Analytics - generation of custom reports and integration with external tools like Splunk

Developer portal setup and customization

Knowledge of build and deployment methodologies with Apigee across environments

Experience in API Administration

Strong knowledge of Apigee component architecture and implementation configurations

Experience setting up Apigee Edge environments and configuring various components

High availability, load balancing and failover configurations with Apigee

Good experience in supporting the Apigee environments and APIs across environments

Knowledge of health checks and monitoring procedures for Apigee components & APIs