Tata Consultancy Services
API Solution Architect
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Role: Solution Architect (API & GCP)
Job Type: Permanent
Location: United Kingdom
Mode of Working: Hybrid
Working Hours: 40 hours per week (Full-time)
Are you looking to utilise your expertise in API architecture, cloud platforms, and enterprise digital transformation? We have an exciting opportunity for you - Solution Architect (API & GCP)!
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Drive the strategic direction of a modern API Marketplace platform within a cloud-first environment. Work with business and technology stakeholders to shape innovative digital solutions and platform capabilities. Lead architectural decisions that influence enterprise-wide API, cloud, and integration strategies.
The Role
As a Solution Architect (API & GCP), you will be responsible for leading the architecture and strategic evolution of an API Marketplace platform within the API Lab. You will work closely with product, engineering, business, and vendor teams to define platform roadmaps, shape innovative solutions, and ensure alignment between technology investments and business objectives. The role requires strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, API ecosystems, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), combined with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive enterprise-scale architectural decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive architectural decisions for the API Marketplace platform.
- Define and guide the strategic roadmap for the Marketplace in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
- Align technology solutions with business priorities, acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal platform teams, business functions, and third-party vendors.
- Shape innovative solution propositions and influence platform and vendor capabilities to enhance Marketplace offerings.
- Provide technical leadership within architecture forums, governance reviews, and design decision processes.
- Lead the design of cloud-native and hybrid cloud solutions with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Champion modern API design principles, API security, scalability, performance, and integration best practices.
- Evaluate and leverage emerging technologies, including Generative AI, where appropriate to support business objectives.
- Ensure solutions are designed with strong non-functional requirements, including security, resilience, scalability, sustainability, performance, and governance.
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Essential skills/knowledge/experience
- Strong experience in solution architecture within API-first, digital platform, marketplace, or multi-tenant environments.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including services such as GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, and Apigee.
- Strong expertise in RESTful API design, API security, versioning, lifecycle management, developer portals, API gateways, and API management platforms.
- Experience with API management technologies such as Apigee, Kong, IBM API Connect, or Azure API Management.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven design, and domain-driven design principles.
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures, CI/CD practices, cybersecurity, resilience, and sustainability principles.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to clearly present technical recommendations to both business and technology audiences.
- Experience influencing architectural direction and driving strategic technology decisions.
- Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams and complex enterprise environments.
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience
- Experience working with Azure and/or AWS alongside strong GCP expertise.
- Understanding of Generative AI and AI-enabled digital experiences, particularly in relation to API ecosystems, automation, and developer experience.
- Experience working within large, complex financial services or other highly regulated organisations.
- Exposure to enterprise governance, resilience, security, sustainability, and large-scale transformation programmes.
- Experience delivering solutions within hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
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Rewards & Benefits
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.
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