Senior API Platform Architect

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
  • Jersey City, NJ
  • $100,000–$125,000 Per Year
4 days ago

Job Description

Role: Technical Architect

Required Skills: API(Application programming interface)

Qualification: BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Experience: 10 - 15 Years

Function: TECHNOLOGY

Apply By: 2026-12-01

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

  • 12+ years of experience in software architecture, API platform engineering, and enterprise application development.
  • Strong experience designing and building enterprise API platforms and reusable API frameworks from scratch.
  • Hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, and microservices architecture.
  • Experience with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, NGINX, AWS API Gateway, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of API security, including OAuth2, JWT, SSO, mTLS, authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement.
  • Experience implementing load balancing, traffic management, throttling, failover, high availability, and resiliency patterns.
  • Strong knowledge of Oracle, SQL, database design, performance tuning, and data access layer architecture.
  • Experience with caching, connection pooling, service discovery, fault tolerance, and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Dynatrace, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of API governance, versioning, lifecycle management, and consumer onboarding processes.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good to Have Skills

  • Experience with enterprise data services and reference data platforms.
  • Exposure to event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka, MQ, or RabbitMQ.
  • Experience in Banking, Capital Markets, Trading, or Financial Services environments.
  • Experience supporting multiple applications through a centralized API platform.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical, high-volume transactional systems.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Design and build a scalable enterprise API platform and reusable API framework from the ground up.
  • Develop and architect RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Design real-time, historical, and point-in-time business data access services.
  • Configure and manage API Gateway capabilities including routing, load balancing, throttling, failover, and service orchestration.
  • Define and implement API security standards, versioning strategies, governance models, and lifecycle management processes.
  • Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth2, JWT, SSO, and mTLS.
  • Design and implement caching, connection pooling, resiliency, and performance optimization solutions.
  • Build reusable components and services that can be consumed by multiple internal and external applications.
  • Establish API consumer onboarding processes and API access management standards.
  • Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, analytics, and usage reporting capabilities.
  • Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, database, DevOps, and architecture teams to deliver end-to-end platform solutions.
  • Support performance testing, production deployment, troubleshooting, operational readiness, and platform governance.
  • Provide architecture leadership, technical guidance, and best practices for API platform adoption across the organization.

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Salary Range $100,000 - $125,000 a year

Numbers & Facts

LocationJersey City, NJ
Salary$100,000–$125,000 Per Year

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