Role Overview:This role is centered on owning the Apigee architecture, API governance, security, lifecycle automation, product management, developer enablement, monitoring, and operational readiness for APIs that support utility customer and enterprise processes. The position requires extensive enterprise integration and API-management experience with hands-on Apigee delivery.
Key Responsibilities:- Define Apigee target architecture, organization and environment model, network connectivity, deployment topology, governance, and platform roadmap.
- Establish API design, naming, versioning, documentation, reuse, deprecation, ownership, review, and publication standards.
- Design API proxies, shared flows, policies, products, plans, applications, developer access, quotas, and traffic-management controls.
- Set security standards for OAuth/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, API keys, threat protection, CORS, secrets, certificates, and sensitive-data handling.
- Lead API enablement for SAP IS-U, CDG, MDM, Salesforce, portals, mobile, payments, GIS, analytics, and third-party consumers.
- Define developer portal, API catalog, onboarding, subscription, entitlement, support, and adoption processes.
- Set monitoring, logging, analytics, traceability, latency, error-rate, capacity, availability, and alerting requirements.
- Establish CI/CD, automated policy testing, configuration management, environment promotion, rollback, and release controls.
- Lead performance analysis, production incidents, security remediation, platform upgrades, disaster recovery, and operational-readiness reviews.
- Facilitate design governance, mentor API teams, manage vendor escalations, and maintain reference patterns and runbooks.
Required Skills:- Apigee X, Hybrid, or Edge
- API proxies, products, and shared flows
- REST APIs and OpenAPI
- OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS
- API threat protection and traffic management
- Developer portal and API catalog
- Kubernetes and Docker
- Git and CI/CD automation
- Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, or Prometheus
- IBM ACE/APIC, Kafka, or MQ integration
- Strong knowledge of API design, gateway policies, security, analytics, cloud/container deployment, and DevOps.
- Experience leading API governance and consumer enablement across large organizations.
Qualifications:- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Extensive enterprise integration and API-management experience with hands-on Apigee delivery.
Preferred Skills:- Apigee certification or equivalent advanced API-management expertise.
