# API Platform Architect

**Company**: RBC
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a API Platform Architect to own platform standardization and enterprise API strategy/governance for CNB’s major API gateways – Apigee and MuleSoft.

This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to maintain, automate and operationalize the platforms that support our API ecosystem.

**Responsibilities**

- Enterprise API Strategy: Defining the long-term vision for API platforms across the organization; deciding between Apigee and MuleSoft (or hybrid) approaches

- Platform Standardization: Establishing enterprise-wide API standards, governance frameworks, reusable patterns, and shared libraries

- Multi-Platform Expertise: Deep knowledge of both Apigee AND MuleSoft ecosystems,evaluating when to use each, managing migration paths, and ensuring interoperability

- Architectural Design: Creating blueprints for complex, large-scale integrations; solving non-trivial technical problems at enterprise scope

- Technology Roadmap: Setting direction for platform evolution, evaluating new tools/versions, managing technical debt

- Executive Communication: Presenting strategy to C-suite, explaining trade-offs, business impact, and ROI

- Governance & Security: Defining API security policies, compliance frameworks, audit trails, and disaster recovery strategies

- Cost Optimization: Optimizing platform licensing, infrastructure, and resource allocation across Apigee and MuleSoft

- Center of Excellence (CoE): Building communities of practice, sharing knowledge, establishing best practices across teams

- Vendor Management: Negotiating with Apigee/MuleSoft, managing support contracts, staying current with platform roadmaps

**Requirements**

- Strong experience in API/integration architecture, with 5+ years at Architect or Principal level

- Expert-level knowledge of both Apigee AND MuleSoft platforms:

- Apigee: Shared flows, conditional policies, analytics, developer portal customization, API monetization, hybrid/on-prem deployments

- MuleSoft: Anypoint Platform maturity, design patterns, API-led connectivity, DataWeave transformations, advanced error handling, Anypoint governance

- Polyglot development: Proficiency across multiple languages (.NET, Java, Python, Node.js) and frameworks

- Enterprise integration patterns: EAI, SOA, microservices, event-driven architecture, saga patterns

- Cloud architecture: Deep multi-cloud experience (Azure, AWS, GCP), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), serverless

- Security & compliance: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, API gateway security, data encryption, regulatory compliance (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX)

- Enterprise middleware: Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ), event streaming, complex transformations

- Infrastructure & DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring / observability (Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus)

**Benefits**

- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

- A world-class training program in financial services

- Flexible work/life balance options

- Opportunities to do challenging work

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## Skills

### Required
- API Architecture
- Apigee
- MuleSoft
- .NET
- Java
- Python
- Node.js
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect

### Nice to have
- Apigee Certified API Architect
- MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect
- Azure Solutions Architect
- AWS Solutions Architect
- TOGAF

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