API Enterprise Architect

API Architecture responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Enterprise API Architects in contributing to/understanding overall API architecture and Lifecycle management vision strategy and standards.
  
• Collaborate with various stake holders such as product owners developers consumers to understand their requirements expectations and communicate API value proposition and best practices.
  
• Assist technology delivery teams as appropriate with the end to end API lifecycle from planning to design to testing deployment post production stabilization etc.
  
• Perform code reviews as necessary to ensure the API code is high quality maintainable code meets standards and specifications defined by API Architect.
  

General Architecture Responsibilities:

• Create high level architecture and other detailed design artifacts to represent the solution architecture recommendations to address multiple stakeholder needs.
  
• Review architecture design with appropriate stakeholders and architecture governance boards to seek approvals.
  
• Collaborate and partner with Enterprise Architects and other domain architects in defining Solution Architecture.
  
• Facilitate cross functional team meetings to achieve desired outcomes on business requirements low level design performance testing etc.
  
• Identify constraints and dependencies highlight any long term risks that may originate because of design of architectural choice made in overall system design .
  
• Communicating with internal stakeholders regarding different aspects of a business problem related architecture/solution options progress reports etc.
  
• Implementation and Delivery Oversee the delivery of solutions to ensure the Architecture is delivered work with quality engineering and performance engineering to ensure all corners cases have been tested address any queries from the development team address any blockers ensure the Devops pipeline is aligned with company standards.
  

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in relevant field
  
• At least 10 years experience with application architecture design and development of business technology applications or APIs familiar with the concepts philosophies and tools behind design of APIs information and Integration technologies.
  
• Past experience in designing and developing API with Java and/or Node.js stacks.
  
• Experience with Open Banking APIs building Developer Portals ( internal external facing ) API Gateways etc
  
• At least 5 years experience in the role of API Architect or Integration Architect or Enterprise Architect ( API domain focused ).
  

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Previous and most recent experience in banking technology is desirable.
  
• Experience/Deep understanding in API management platforms is highly preferred(APIGEE or some other ).
  
• Architecting solutions in a public cloud platform ( one of Azure GCP AWS etc ).
  
• Hands on expertise in modern architectures like Event Streaming Micro services etc
  
• SME in API architecture discipline API Standards API lifecycle process and API Security .
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex topics and issues with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
  
• Collaboration and cross functional leadership.