APIGEE TECHNICAL LEAD

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on integration development across APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Provide technical guidance, solutioning inputs, and design oversight aligned to enterprise architecture.
• Ensure quality through code reviews, performance tuning, and adherence to API standards.
• Act as the primary interface for business stakeholders and support backlog prioritization and sprint planning.
• Drive Agile delivery using Scrum and DevOps practices with continuous improvement.
• Ensure adherence to API governance, lifecycle management, and security standards.
• Lead and mentor offshore teams and foster cross-functional collaboration.
• Oversee incident resolution, monitoring, and continuous optimization.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in API development ApigeeX (APIM), Cloud Armor (WAF & API Security) and microservices architecture.
• 6+ years of integration development work.
• Must have worked on AWS or Google Cloud Platform (preferred) cloud environment preferably both, and have hands on experience in AWS lambda (for AWS) or Cloud Run, Cloud Functions.
• Hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka (ESP).
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum and DevOps methodologies.
• Must have led (Technical Lead) at least 2 system integration and modernization (development) projects.
• Experience in leading distributed onshore-offshore teams.

Qualifications

• Must have worked in API development project at least 2 system integration and modernization projects.
• Must have worked in either AWS or Google Cloud Platform (preferred). More preference will given to candidate who has worked on both.