20 days ago
Guadalajara, MexicoStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end enterprise integrations across Apigee, Kafka, microservices, and AWS platforms.
- Design, develop, and deploy integrations connecting APIs, event streams, and message queues across enterprise systems.
- Define API-led connectivity patterns for manufacturing and supply chain systems, including ERP, MES, WMS, EDI, and B2B integrations.
- Establish API design standards, OpenAPI governance frameworks, and reusable integration patterns.
- Guide event-driven and queue-based integration using Kafka, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.
- Drive API security, observability, performance, throttling, caching, analytics, and monitoring.
- Evaluate API management tooling such as Kong as platform needs evolve.
- Partner with application teams, business stakeholders, supply chain teams, and manufacturing teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
- Mentor teams on API design best practices and enterprise integration governance.
Requirements
- 16–20 years of experience in integration architecture with a strong focus on API Management.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Apigee and AWS API Gateway, including policies, security, and lifecycle management.
- Strong understanding of APIs, events, messaging queues, and enterprise integration landscapes.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing and supply chain domain integrations.
- Strong AWS cloud architecture experience across compute, networking, and security.
- Experience with OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, API security standards, and API governance frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management, architecture documentation, communication, and client-interfacing skills.
- Preferred experience with Kong API Gateway, Kafka, AWS MSK, AWS Flink, SQS, Spring Boot microservices on AWS ECS, and B2B EDI integration tools.
- Preferred AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification and at least one API management or Kafka-related certification.
- AWS Solutions Architect and Apigee certifications are desirable.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value. We build full-stack AI solutions powered by deep industry, process and engineering expertise — embedding an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential and drive tangible outcomes. From strategy to deployment, we help global enterprises move from AI ambition to AI impact and stay ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai | Follow us @cognizant