Senior Solutions Architect

Role Overview

• We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead the design of the migration strategy and architecture for moving an API Management platform across multicloud environments.
• The role will initially focus on migrating the API gateway from Azure API Management to Google Cloud Apigee, preserving existing backend services in this first phase.
• Document the current API and integration architecture.
• Map APIs, consumers, backends, policies, products, certificates, credentials and dependencies.
• Assess the current Azure API Management configuration.
• Define the target architecture for adopting Apigee.
• Develop the migration and coexistence strategy between gateways.
• Create an equivalence matrix between Azure API Management and Apigee resources and policies.
• Identify policies that can be migrated directly, adapted or reimplemented.
• Design communication flows between Azure, GCP and, when necessary, AWS environments.
• Evaluate private connectivity between clouds, including routing, DNS, firewalls, load balancers and return paths.
• Define the API authentication and authorization model.
• Assess integrations with Keycloak, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, JWKS and mTLS.
• Define standards for API publication, versioning and lifecycle management.
• Define reusable standards for security, transformation, quotas, rate limiting and error handling.
• Establish observability requirements, monitoring, logging, tracing and request correlation.
• Define the automation, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code strategy.
• Select candidate APIs for the MVP.
• Define the technical success and acceptance criteria for the MVP.
• Provide technical support for implementation, testing and validation of the solution.
• Develop cutover, rollback and wave-based migration strategies.
• Support the construction of the platform evolution roadmap.
• Act as the primary technical authority for the initiative.
• Ensure the proposed architecture is secure, scalable, resilient and operationally sustainable.
• Ensure API contracts are preserved during the migration process.
• Assess latency, availability and performance impacts resulting from cross-cloud communication.
• Ensure functional and non-functional requirements are considered in the solution design.
• Conduct technical workshops with integration, cloud, networking, security, identity, DevOps and operations teams.
• Facilitate technical decisions across different areas and vendors.
• Record and justify key architectural decisions.
• Identify risks, dependencies, constraints and migration-critical points.
• Support effort and complexity estimation for APIs.
• Validate designs, configurations, components and implemented patterns.
• Guide engineers and developers during MVP development.
• Ensure the defined model can be reused in subsequent migration waves.
• Support preparation of development, staging and production environments.
• Ensure rollback mechanisms are in place prior to production rollout.
• Support knowledge transfer to the teams responsible for platform support.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Integration Architect or API Architect.
• Hands-on experience with API Management platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure API Management.
• Advanced knowledge of Google Cloud Apigee, preferably Apigee X.
• Experience designing multicloud architectures.
• Experience integrating Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of synchronous integration architectures and API-led design.
• Strong understanding of REST, HTTP, JSON and OpenAPI.
• Knowledge of SOAP and XML for assessing legacy integrations.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, JWKS and mTLS.
• Familiarity with identity and access management platforms, preferably Keycloak.
• Experience with security policies, quotas, rate limiting, transformation and API routing.
• Knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service and Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, ingress controllers, service discovery and load balancing.
• Experience with networking in Azure and GCP.
• Knowledge of VPC, VNet, peering, Private Service Connect, VPN, Interconnect, ExpressRoute, BGP, DNS and firewalls.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with API observability: metrics, logs, tracing and alerting.
• Knowledge of non-functional requirements including availability, resilience, latency, capacity and security.
• Ability to produce diagrams, architecture documentation and decision records.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• DNS
• Firewalls
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• SOAP
• Terraform

Benefits

• Meal allowance
• Food allowance
• Home office allowance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Discount partnerships
• Agreements with businesses and educational institutions
• Recurring agile training
• Alura licenses