API Platform Engineer

Job summary

Manage API platforms supporting banking services and major core banking or digital banking transformations. Administer gateways and developer portals, publish modular APIs, enforce security and lifecycle policies, and automate platform operations using technologies such as Kong, Apigee, Azure API Management, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and CI/CD. The role also applies AI-assisted engineering to policy generation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational analysis.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of banking API management experience.
• Experience with a major core banking or digital banking transformation.
• Working knowledge of BIAN APIs and banking service domains.
• Hands-on experience with Kong, Apigee, Azure API Management, or an equivalent platform.
• Knowledge of OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, OAuth, OIDC, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and approved AI engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Administer API gateways and developer portals.
• Onboard and publish modular banking APIs.
• Implement OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, JWT, and policy controls.
• Manage API versions, products, subscriptions, and lifecycle.
• Implement observability, analytics, throttling, and monetisation controls where applicable.
• Automate platform configuration.
• Use AI-assisted engineering for policy generation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational analysis.

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