Senior API Architect – API Strategy, Security, Governance & Integration
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Work Arrangement: Hybrid – Minimum 3 Days per Week in Office
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Senior API Architect – API Strategy, Security, Governance & Integration
Experience Required: 10 Years
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – Minimum 3 Days per Week in Office
Role Overview
- Experienced API Architect to define and drive API strategy, design scalable integration solutions, and establish best practices for API development across the enterprise
- Provide technical leadership to ensure secure, reusable, and high-performing API ecosystems
Key Responsibilities
- Define API architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices
- Design scalable, secure, and reusable APIs and integration frameworks
- Lead the adoption of microservices and API-led connectivity strategies
- Guide development teams on API design, governance, and implementation
- Establish API lifecycle management, versioning, and documentation standards
- Ensure API security using OAuth2, JWT, encryption, and threat protection
- Evaluate and implement API management platforms such as Azure API Management
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, DevOps, and product teams
- Review and approve solution designs to align with enterprise architecture
- Drive performance optimization, monitoring, and reliability improvements
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in API design, integration, or backend architecture
- Strong expertise in API architecture, RESTful services, and microservices
- Proficiency in Java, .NET, or Node.js ecosystems
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Deep understanding of API security standards including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and JWT
- Experience with API gateways and API management platforms
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience in financial services or insurance domain
- Exposure to event-driven architecture including Kafka and messaging systems
- Knowledge of TOGAF or other enterprise architecture frameworks
Essential Skills
- API Architecture
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- API Governance
- API Lifecycle Management
- API Security
- OAuth2 / OpenID Connect / JWT
- Azure API Management
- Java / .NET / Node.js
- CI/CD
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Enterprise Architecture
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior API Architect at Astra North Infoteck Inc. will define API standards and integration designs, guide development teams on API governance and security, and drive performance and reliability improvements. The role also reviews solution designs and works with enterprise architects, DevOps and product teams.
Requirements
Candidates need 7 or more years in API design, integration or backend architecture, strong REST and microservices expertise, and experience with Java, .NET or Node.js. They also need knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, API gateways, Azure API Management, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes.
Skills
- API architecture
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- API governance
- API lifecycle management
- API security
- OAuth2
- OpenID Connect
- JWT
- Azure API Management
- API gateways
- Java
- NET
- Node.js
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Enterprise architecture
- Kafka
- Event-driven architecture
- TOGAF
- Cloud platforms
- Performance optimization
- Stakeholder communication
Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- API architect
- API strategy
- API governance
- API security
- REST API
- microservices
- OAuth2
- OpenID Connect
- JWT
- Azure API Management
- API gateway
- Java
- NET
- Node.js
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- enterprise architecture
- API lifecycle management
- Kafka
Seniority
Senior
Tools
- Azure API Management
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Languages
- English