Capgemini

API Lead Architect

Capgemini
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Mississauga, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$90k - $115k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define enterprise API architecture, strategy, governance, security, and reusable standards.
  • Design scalable REST, GraphQL, event-driven API, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Design AWS integration patterns using API Gateway, Lambda, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and Step Functions.
  • Lead API management implementations using Apigee, MuleSoft, Kong, or Azure API Management.
  • Establish API security using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, and AWS IAM.
  • Implement CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, logging, tracing, and automation.
  • Lead architecture reviews, modernization initiatives, and technical governance.
  • Collaborate with business and product teams and mentor engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Experience with AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Step Functions, CloudWatch, and IAM.
  • Experience with REST, GraphQL, SOAP, OpenAPI/Swagger, Async APIs, and API lifecycle management.
  • Development experience with Java, Python, Node.js, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Istio.
  • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.
  • Experience with DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, MongoDB, or Redis.
  • Preferred experience with enterprise digital transformation, serverless and event-driven architectures, hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and GenAI/API integrations.
  • Domain experience in banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, or telecommunications is preferred.

Benefits

  • Paid time off including 12-25 vacation days depending on employee grade, company holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
  • Retirement savings plans such as 401(k) in the U.S. and RRSP in Canada.
  • Life and disability insurance.
  • Employee assistance programs and other benefits based on local policy and eligibility.
  • Regular, full-time employee benefits are subject to local policy and eligibility.
  • The role is located in New York, Chicago, or Atlanta.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGraphQLIstioJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonRedisSOAPTerraformTypeScript

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About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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