API Connect Designer / Architect📣 Job Ad

About Valleysoft | Center of Excellence

Valleysoft is an IT services provider that delivers enterprise technology solutions, software development, process management, and infrastructure support to clients globally. The company assists organizations in designing, building, and supporting systems that ensure critical operations run securely and efficiently across complex business environments.

Role Overview

Valleysoft is seeking an API Connect Designer / Architect to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is focused on shaping enterprise-grade API management capabilities within complex integration landscapes. The successful candidate will help define the architecture, standards, and governance practices necessary to support scalable, secure, and reliable API ecosystems, working in close partnership with various technical stakeholders.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and architect enterprise API management solutions utilizing IBM API Connect.
• Define scalable, secure, and highly available API platform architectures.
• Design and govern the complete API lifecycle, encompassing design, development, deployment, versioning, monitoring, and retirement.
• Establish enterprise API standards, design guidelines, naming conventions, and reusable patterns.
• Design and implement API security policies, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, and access controls.
• Configure and govern API Gateway policies and security mechanisms.
• Design API integrations with internal applications, external systems, and third-party services.
• Define API architecture patterns aligned with enterprise integration and technology standards.
• Establish API governance frameworks, standards, policies, and best practices.
• Review API designs to ensure compliance with architecture and governance standards.
• Partner with enterprise and solution architects to align API solutions with broader enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with application development, integration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps teams.
• Analyze business and technical requirements, translating them into scalable API and integration architectures.
• Design API security using standards such as OAuth , OpenID Connect, JWT, and related protocols.

Required Skills and Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience and demonstrate proficiency in the following areas:

• Hands-on experience with IBM API Connect, including designing enterprise API management solutions and configuring API Gateway policies.
• Strong background in designing REST APIs, working with SOAP web services, and supporting microservices integration.
• Experience connecting APIs with databases, applications, middleware, and external systems across enterprise backend integrations.
• Experience modernizing integration landscapes, including exposing legacy services through modern APIs.
• Solid understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, and XML.
• Hands-on experience implementing API security controls, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, routing, and related security policies.
• Experience designing secure API architectures using OAuth , OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS/SSL, and mTLS.
• Experience integrating API platforms with enterprise IAM solutions or identity providers.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise API governance frameworks, including API design standards, naming conventions, documentation, versioning, and reusable API patterns.
• Experience governing the API lifecycle from design and approval through deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retirement.
• Experience conducting formal API architecture and design reviews and working through cross-functional API approval and governance processes.

Industry-Specific Experience

• Background in Banking or FinTech environments, with experience designing API security architectures and controls to protect against common API threats.

Location and Employment Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We invite qualified professionals to apply.