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Job Description – C13 | Lead Engineer, APIGEE Platform & Onboarding
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, onboarding, and lifecycle management of APIs on the Apigee API Management platform, ensuring security, scalability, and performance best practices.
- Define and drive the Apigee onboarding strategy for new applications and teams, serving as the primary platform lead and point of escalation.
- Implement and manage NGINX configurations for routing, load balancing, and traffic management across environments.
- Design and govern RESTful API standards, policies, and patterns across the enterprise API landscape.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust API-driven technical solutions.
- Drive API modernization initiatives, including migration of legacy integrations to Apigee-managed, cloud-ready architectures.
- Ensure adherence to Citi's engineering standards, security controls, and governance frameworks.
- Perform API and configuration reviews, enforce platform best practices, and mentor junior developers and senior engineers.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, release management, and production stability, including L3 support when required.
- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and operational risks within the API gateway layer, and implement corrective actions.
- Partner with global teams across regions to deliver high-quality, enterprise-grade API solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 12–14 years of professional experience in platform engineering or API management within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Deep hands-on expertise in Apigee API Management — including proxy development, policy configuration, developer portals, and platform governance.
- Proven experience with NGINX for reverse proxy, routing, and traffic control.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading API onboarding programs for enterprise teams and applications.
- Experience working in agile development methodologies (Scrum / Kanban).
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently on complex platform and integration issues.
- Excellent communication skills with experience collaborating with global and cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, Maven) and DevOps practices.
- Exposure to containerization and cloud platforms (Docker, OpenShift, PCF, or equivalent).
- Experience in financial services or banking domain preferred.
- Prior experience in application support and regulatory‑driven environments is a plus.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- Relevant certifications in Java, Cloud, or API technologies are an advantage.
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Digital Software Engineering
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Time Type:
Full time
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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