API Solutions Architect

About the role

You will design and govern secure, scalable APIs that enable internal platform components and external mission systems to exchange data while aligning with DoW policies, reference architectures, and enterprise integration standards. Working with software engineers, systems architects, cybersecurity teams, and mission stakeholders, you will develop API specifications, governance processes, and reusable standards using Apigee, Gravitee, and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the API architecture, standards, and integration patterns supporting WDP
• Document and publish RESTful APIs using OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and related standards
• Configure and manage APIs, policies, gateways, developer portals, and lifecycle processes using Apigee and Gravitee
• Create API governance processes covering design, review, versioning, publishing, monitoring, and retirement
• Create reusable API patterns, templates, and reference implementations that promote consistency across engineering teams
• Define versioning and change-management strategies that support backward compatibility and platform evolution
• Develop API documentation, integration guides, and onboarding resources for developers and mission partners
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to ensure APIs meet functional, performance, scalability, and usability requirements
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement authentication, authorization, encryption, rate limiting, threat protection, and other API security controls
• Monitor API usage, performance, availability, and adoption through Apigee, Gravitee, or related observability tools
• Ensure API designs align with DoW reference architectures, enterprise integration standards, and mission objectives
• Participate in architecture reviews and troubleshoot complex API integration, gateway, and interoperability issues

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant API architecture, integration, or software engineering experience
• Hands-on experience with Apigee, Gravitee, or a comparable API management platform
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design, API lifecycle management, and interface governance
• Experience developing API specifications using OpenAPI, Swagger, JSON Schema, or similar frameworks
• Experience configuring API gateways, policies, routing, rate limits, security controls, and monitoring
• Experience implementing API versioning, backward compatibility, and change-management strategies
• Experience with authentication and authorization technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, or PKI
• Strong understanding of API security and secure software development practices
• Ability to analyze integration challenges and develop scalable, maintainable API solutions
• Strong communication and documentation skills, including the ability to explain architecture decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience will be considered