Senior API Architect – API Strategy, Security, Governance & Integration

Experience Required: 10 Years

Work Arrangement: Hybrid – Minimum 3 Days per Week in Office

Role Overview

- Experienced API Architect to define and drive API strategy, design scalable integration solutions, and establish best practices for API development across the enterprise
- Provide technical leadership to ensure secure, reusable, and high-performing API ecosystems

Key Responsibilities

- Define API architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices
- Design scalable, secure, and reusable APIs and integration frameworks
- Lead the adoption of microservices and API-led connectivity strategies
- Guide development teams on API design, governance, and implementation
- Establish API lifecycle management, versioning, and documentation standards
- Ensure API security using OAuth2, JWT, encryption, and threat protection
- Evaluate and implement API management platforms such as Azure API Management
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, DevOps, and product teams
- Review and approve solution designs to align with enterprise architecture
- Drive performance optimization, monitoring, and reliability improvements





Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in API design, integration, or backend architecture
- Solid expertise in API architecture, RESTful services, and microservices
- Proficiency in Java, .NET, or Node.js ecosystems
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Deep understanding of API security standards including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and JWT
- Experience with API gateways and API management platforms
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills

Nice-to-Have Skills

- Experience in financial services or insurance domain
- Exposure to event-driven architecture including Kafka and messaging systems
- Knowledge of TOGAF or other enterprise architecture frameworks

Essential Skills

- API Architecture
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- API Governance
- API Lifecycle Management
- API Security
- OAuth2 / OpenID Connect / JWT
- Azure API Management
- Java / .NET / Node.js
- CI/CD
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Enterprise Architecture

📌 Senior API Architect – API Strategy, Security, Governance & Integration (Toronto)
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