Solutions Architect – API Management Platforms

🚀 Hiring: Solutions Architect – API Management Platforms

📍 Porto, Portugal (Hybrid | 1 day onsite/week)

🚗 Industry: Automotive Technology

🌍 Language: English

Are you a seasoned Solutions Architect with a passion for building scalable, secure, and cloud-native API ecosystems? We are looking for an expert to lead the strategy, design, and governance of enterprise-scale API Management platforms across multi-cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and govern end-to-end API Management architectures aligned with business goals.

• Define API governance frameworks, security policies, and integration standards.

• Establish scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and security benchmarks.

• Drive architectural decisions and provide technical leadership to development teams.

• Improve platform capabilities through automation, optimization, and innovation.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver interoperable solutions.

• Evaluate and introduce emerging cloud-native and API Management technologies.

Required Experience

• Strong experience in Solution Architecture, API Management, Cloud Engineering, or Distributed Systems.

• Proven expertise in API Strategy, Lifecycle Management, Governance, and Security.

• Experience designing and supporting enterprise-grade API platforms in complex environments.

Technical Skills

• Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Alibaba Cloud and/or Tencent Cloud API platforms.

• REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI, JSON-RPC.

• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SSO.

• SOA, Event-Driven Architecture, Cloud-Native Systems.

• Linux administration and scripting with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

• Observability, Reliability Engineering, Analytics, and Platform Security.

Important

✅ Candidates must be based in Portugal.

✅ Candidates must have a valid legal right to work in Portugal to be considered.

✅ Unfortunately, sponsorship/relocation support is not available for this opportunity.

If you're interested in shaping the future of enterprise API platforms within a leading automotive technology environment, I'd love to hear from you.

📩 Send your updated CV to [email protected]

🤝 Open to a direct LinkedIn connection for a confidential discussion.