API Architect (m/k) 🏗️

We are looking for an experienced Platfrom Architect to define and drive an end-to-end API strategy for a modern, cloud-native organisation. This role is responsible for shaping API standards, architecture, governance, and tooling to enable secure, scalable, and product-grade APIs across internal and external consumers. This is a hands-on architecture role, combining deep platform engineering with cross-team leadership to deliver a unified, contract-first API ecosystem built on AWS. Your role • Own and evolve the target API architecture across domains using AWS-native services. • Define contract-first API standards (OpenAPI/GraphQL), versioning, schema governance, and CI/CD quality gates. • Design and govern API Gateway patterns, routing models, Terraform modules, and policy-as-code guardrails. • Architect identity and security models, including OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, AWS SigV4, rate limiting, and WAF controls. • Enable teams through paved-road service templates (.NET, Python, TypeScript) with built-in auth, observability, and pipelines. • Define integration patterns for event-driven and synchronous APIs, ensuring reliability and backward compatibility. • Establish observability and reliability standards (logs, metrics, tracing, SLOs). • Lead API modernisation, reducing technical debt and aligning legacy APIs with new standards. • Partner with engineering, product, security, and SRE teams to drive adoption and best practices. Offer • International, collaborative work environment • Exposure to large-scale cloud and integration platforms • Strong learning and development support • Competitive compensation and benefits • Hybrid work Requirements Technical Expertise • Strong experience designing scalable API platforms on AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, ALB, Cognito, EventBridge, IAM). • Deep knowledge of contract-first API design, versioning, and schema governance. • Expertise in authentication and authorisation (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, SigV4). • Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code. • Solid understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, security automation, and dependency management. • Experience with event-driven architectures and observability tooling. Architecture & Leadership • Proven ability to define platform-wide standards and lead large-scale architectural change. • Experience creating opinionated templates and enablement tooling. • Strong stakeholder communication and ability to influence across teams. Mindset • Hands-on builder with a pragmatic approach. • Strong focus on security, automation, and API quality. • Comfortable modernising legacy systems while designing for scale.