API Gateway Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking an API Gateway Architect to own the organization-wide migration from Apigee to AWS API Gateway. This role reviews the current Apigee estate across all teams and services, defines the target state architecture and standards on AWS, and establishes the patterns, governance, and observability foundation that every team will adopt. A key focus is replacing capabilities Apigee provides out of the box (analytics, reporting, developer portal) with equivalent AWS native solutions.

Duration: 12 months
Location: PAN India
Shift Timings: 2 PM to 11:30 PM IST

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess the entire Apigee estate across the organization including routing, rate limiting, quotas, spike arrest, security policies, API keys, OAuth/JWT, transformations, and how teams currently consume shared gateway capabilities
  
• Perform an org-wide feature-parity gap analysis between Apigee and AWS API Gateway, identifying capabilities that must be rebuilt or standardized in AWS, particularly reporting, analytics, and developer-portal functionality
  
• Define the target-state reference architecture for AWS API Gateway that all teams will adopt: REST vs HTTP API standards, authorizer patterns, Lambda/Cognito/IAM, usage plans, WAF integration, custom domains, and multi-account/multi-stage deployment models
  
• Design and standardize the organization's API observability strategy end-to-end covering logging, metrics, and distributed tracing so that reporting and performance visibility lost from Apigee is fully recovered on AWS
  
• Establish a reusable org-wide log-capture and reporting pipeline from API Gateway through to a centralized analytics/search platform with standardized log formats, retention policies, and shared dashboards for traffic, latency, error rates, and per-consumer usage
  
• Define real-time monitoring and health-monitoring standards separate from long-term log analytics, ensuring operational teams can detect and respond to issues quickly
  
• Set org-wide governance and standards: security baselines, API design guidelines, versioning, tagging, and cost-management practices
  
• Define the reusable infrastructure-as-code foundation (Terraform modules, CDK constructs) that teams consume to provision gateways and observability tooling consistently
  
• Own the migration roadmap and sequencing across teams, phased cutover, canary/blue-green, coexistence period with clear rollback strategies
  
• Provide architectural guidance, review designs, and enable engineering teams throughout the migration
  
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and platform leadership on non-functional requirements, compliance, and audit logging
  

REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Skills:

• Deep production experience with both Apigee Edge and AWS API Gateway at scale
  
• Proven track record architecting and governing API platforms across multiple teams or business units
  
• Strong AWS platform expertise: API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Route 53, multi-account strategy
  
• Strong background designing observability and reporting architectures, logging pipelines, metrics, and distributed tracing for API platforms at scale
  
• Deep API security expertise: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT validation, mTLS, API keys, WAF
  
• Strong infrastructure-as-code and reusable-module design: Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation
  
• Ability to set standards, write reference architectures, and enable engineering teams
  
• 8+ years of experience
  

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience leading an org-wide migration off Apigee or another API management platform
  
• Experience defining API governance frameworks and developer enablement
  
• Familiarity with distributed tracing tools and centralized log-analytics platforms