Valleysoft is an IT services provider delivering enterprise technology solutions, software development, process management, and infrastructure support for clients around the world. Working across complex business environments, the company helps organizations design, build, and support the systems that keep critical operations running securely and efficiently.

This role is focused on shaping enterprise-grade API management capabilities for complex integration landscapes. As an API Connect Designer / Architect, you will help define the architecture, standards, and governance practices that support scalable, secure, and reliable API ecosystems, while partnering closely with architecture, engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Design and architect enterprise API management solutions using IBM API Connect
Define scalable, secure, and highly available API platform architectures
Design and govern the full API lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, versioning, monitoring, and retirement
Establish enterprise API standards, design guidelines, naming conventions, and reusable patterns
Design and implement API security policies, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, and access controls
Configure and govern API Gateway policies and security mechanisms
Design API integrations with internal applications, external systems, and third-party services
Define API architecture patterns aligned with enterprise integration and technology standards
Establish API governance frameworks, standards, policies, and best practices
Review API designs and ensure compliance with architecture and governance standards
Partner with enterprise and solution architects to align API solutions with broader enterprise architecture
Collaborate with application development, integration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps teams
Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable API and integration architectures
Design API security using standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and related protocols

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field
10-12 years of experience in API management and integration architecture, including work in large enterprise integration environments
Hands-on experience with IBM API Connect, including designing enterprise API management solutions and configuring API Gateway policies
Strong background designing REST APIs, working with SOAP web services, and supporting microservices integration
Experience connecting APIs with databases, applications, middleware, and external systems across enterprise backend integrations
Experience modernizing integration landscapes, including exposing legacy services through modern APIs
Solid understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, and XML
Hands-on experience implementing API security controls, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, routing, and related security policies
Experience designing secure API architectures using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS/SSL, and mTLS
Experience integrating API platforms with enterprise IAM solutions or identity providers
Background in Banking or FinTech environments, with experience designing API security architectures and controls to protect against common API threats
Hands-on experience with enterprise API governance frameworks, including API design standards, naming conventions, documentation, versioning, and reusable API patterns
Experience governing the API lifecycle from design and approval through deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retirement
Experience conducting formal API architecture and design reviews and working through cross-functional API approval and governance processes

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