Google Apigee Migration Architect

Google Apigee Migration Architect

Industry: Airline / Transportation

Location:

Dallas, TX or San Antonio, TX — Onsite / Co-Located

Employment Type:

Contract-to-Hire Work Authorization:
Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident.

Overview We are seeking a senior API Migration Architect to provide hands-on technical leadership for a large-scale modernization initiative migrating enterprise API capabilities from IBM API Connect and IBM Data Power to Google Apigee. This individual will serve as a key technical leader across architecture, migration planning, platform design, security, integration, Dev Ops, testing, and production readiness. The Architect will assess the existing IBM API environment, define the target-state Apigee architecture, establish migration patterns, resolve complex technical dependencies, and guide engineering teams through execution.

This is not a strategy-only architecture role. The successful candidate must be capable of moving from architecture and planning into hands-on technical problem solving, proof-of-concept development, migration execution, troubleshooting, and production deployment. The ideal candidate has direct experience with IBM API Connect and/or Data Power, strong expertise in Google Apigee / Apigee X, and experience modernizing or migrating enterprise API platforms.

Direct IBM-to-Apigee migration experience is strongly preferred but not required for candidates who bring exceptional depth on either the IBM or Google Apigee side and have successfully led comparable API platform migrations.

Employee Value Proposition This is an opportunity to play a central role in a highly visible enterprise cloud modernization initiative supporting a major nationwide organization. You will help define how a large API ecosystem transitions from legacy IBM middleware and gateway technologies into a modern Google Cloud API management environment. Rather than maintaining an existing platform, you will have the opportunity to:

• Define the migration architecture.
• Establish reusable API migration patterns.
• Influence the target Google Apigee environment.
• Solve complex integration and security challenges.
• Guide engineering and Dev Ops teams.
• Participate directly in production migration and cutover.
• Help establish the foundation for the organization's future API platform.

What Success Looks Like Success is measured by the ability to create a secure, scalable, repeatable migration approach and successfully move APIs from IBM API Connect/Data Power into Google Apigee without disrupting critical business services. The Architect will be expected to provide both technical leadership and hands-on execution throughout the migration.

Responsibilities The API Migration Architect will:

• Lead architecture for migration from IBM API Connect and IBM Data Power to Google Apigee.
• Assess existing IBM API environments and determine appropriate migration approaches.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available Apigee architectures.
• Translate IBM API Connect and Data Power capabilities into appropriate Apigee patterns.
• Define API proxy, policy, routing, transformation, security, logging, and monitoring standards.
• Develop reference architectures and reusable migration patterns.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to API developers and platform engineers.
• Participate in proof-of-concept development and complex API migrations.
• Troubleshoot technical issues across IBM, Google Cloud, Apigee, Dev Ops, networking, and security environments.
• Partner with cloud security architects to define API security standards.
• Work with Dev Ops engineers to establish automated build and deployment pipelines.
• Support test teams with migration validation strategies.
• Lead technical reviews and architecture decisions.
• Identify migration risks, dependencies, and technical blockers.
• Support production readiness, deployment, cutover, and stabilization.
• Provide technical mentoring to development and engineering teams.
• Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical teams and project leadership.

Required Experience Candidates should bring strong experience across several of the following areas: API Architecture

• Enterprise API architecture and API…