Software Architect Cloud AWS Sr

Requirements
Must-have experience

- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale API ecosystems and integration architectures.

- Deep understanding of API contract design and governance, including REST APIs and event-driven architectures.

- Strong experience defining, enforcing, and governing API standards and integration patterns across multiple teams and workstreams.

- Hands-on experience with API gateway platforms, including policy management, rate limiting, security controls, and access management.

- Experience with integration orchestration and iPaaS platforms for workflow-based and recipe-based integrations.

- Strong knowledge of modern authentication and authorization frameworks, including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

- Experience implementing data protection and privacy controls, including tokenization solutions for sensitive data such as PII and NPI.

- Strong expertise in event-driven architecture and event streaming platforms, including Kafka and AWS MSK.

- Experience designing and implementing synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.

- Ability to align API and integration contracts with enterprise canonical and logical data models.

- Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to provide architecture guidance and unblock development teams through hands-on involvement.

- Proven ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and establish processes and structure in evolving environments.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

- Experience leading technical initiatives with minimal supervision and high autonomy.

Nice-to-have experience

- Experience with Gravitee API Gateway.

- Experience with Workato or comparable iPaaS platforms such as MuleSoft or Apigee.

- Experience with durable workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or similar frameworks.

- Experience defining or consuming enterprise canonical data models, logical data models, master data management, or data architecture frameworks.

- Familiarity with AI agent orchestration patterns, including LangGraph and agentic workflow frameworks.

- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise integration modernization initiatives.

- Knowledge of enterprise architecture governance and integration best practices.

Responsibilities

- Own and manage the API and integration intake lifecycle, including intake, assessment, prioritization, governance, and execution.

- Define, implement, and enforce API contract standards and enterprise integration governance frameworks.

- Design scalable, secure, and reusable integration architectures across multiple business and technology workstreams.

- Establish and operationalize synchronous and event-driven integration patterns across the enterprise.

- Design and implement secure boundary controls to protect sensitive information in non-production environments.

- Configure, administer, and optimize API gateway and integration orchestration platforms.

- Design, support, and enhance event streaming solutions using Kafka and AWS MSK.

- Contribute to the design and implementation of durable workflow orchestration solutions.

- Ensure API contracts and integration solutions align with enterprise data architecture and canonical data models.

- Collaborate with architecture, engineering, data, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable integration solutions.

- Provide hands-on technical leadership, architecture guidance, and implementation support to engineering teams.

- Drive best practices for API security, access control, governance, and lifecycle management.

- Evaluate and recommend integration technologies, tools, and architectural approaches.

- Identify and resolve complex technical challenges impacting integration and API delivery.

- Support enterprise adoption of modern integration, automation, and API management capabilities.

Required Languages
- English: Advanced 80–95%

Originally posted on Himalayas