Apigee Lead Architect

Apigee Lead Engineer

Hybrid role – with travel once/twice to Leeds

Security Cleared or Eligible (must have been residing in the UK for at least the last 5 years)

Summary

Apigee Lead Engineer with strong expertise in Google Apigee, including migration from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. Skilled in bridging development and operations by automating workflows, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring reliable software deployment. Proven ability to manage infrastructure, monitor performance, and collaborate across teams to maintain scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

Key role and responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and monitor solutions using AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, Dynamo, S3 etc.)
• Integrate APIs into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Github workflows
• Lead and execute migration projects from Apigee Edge to Apigee X, ensuring minimal disruption and optimal performance
• Design, deploy, and manage applications tailored to business needs, while customizing platforms and overseeing the full API lifecycle using Apigee Edge and X.
• Drive API strategy execution, provide technical support, and generate insights through analytics to enhance integrations and documentation.

Key skills for this role

• Security Cleared or Clearable
• Excellent leadership communication, coaching and mentoring the team.
• Senior stakeholder engagement, ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation including Executive Directors. This includes economic considerations for the product roadmap.
• Extensive experience with Google Apigee, including migration from Edge to X
• Ability to generate custom analytics reports for API consumption and errors
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) is a must
• Proficiency with AWS cloud tools and architecture, including deploying microservices using ECS, ECR and Fargate.
• Hands-on experience with Python
• Hands-on experience with Docker.
• Experience in setting up and managing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of build and deployment methodologies for distributed systems
• Solid experience with enterprise-grade applications and systems
• Proficiency in Node.js-based web applications
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Implementation of API security and access control (OAuth, API keys, JWT, etc.)
• Familiarity with API design patterns, best practices, and performance optimisation

If you wish to apply kindly send your profile to [email protected]