API Governance Architect (REST & Event-Driven)

The role

This person will lead and evolve the REST and Event-Driven API governance model. They will establish rules, standards, and best practices for designing, publishing, consuming, and maintaining APIs and events.

What you will do

• Leading and evolving the REST and Event-Driven API governance model.
• Establishing rules, standards, and best practices for APIs and events.
• Defining and applying mechanisms to guarantee API quality and consistency.
• Driving governance automation by integrating controls and policies into CI/CD processes.
• Managing and evolving API and event catalogs, domains, and inventories.
• Establishing security, access control, audit, traceability, and observability policies.
• Defining standards for REST and Event-Driven (EDA) solutions.
• Acting as a link between business, architecture, security, and technology teams.
• Promoting APIs and Event-Driven architectures through workshops and evangelization.

Required qualifications

• Solid experience in API Governance.
• Experience in the design and definition of REST and asynchronous APIs.
• Experience in contract documentation using Swagger/OpenAPI and AsyncAPI 2.x/3.x.
• Knowledge of Avro data schemas.
• Experience or knowledge in Event Storming for event modeling.
• Solid knowledge of Event-Driven architectures (EDA).
• Experience with quality controls, scoring, and automated validations for API governance.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and automation.
• Experience or knowledge in API and event security: OAuth, JWT, IAM Policies, IdP, mTLS, certificates, encryption, and ACLs.
• Knowledge of audit, traceability, event lineage, and observability.
• Knowledge of BIAN architecture.
• Ability to work transversally with business and technology teams with good communication skills.

About the company

Glintt Global is a reference technology company in the Iberian Peninsula with over 30 years of experience developing innovative solutions.