API Architect

Job Description

Description:

• Assist project leadership in designing the approach for API-led integration and API Management projects, including selection of technologies, setting technical directions, estimating/planning, and directing developers.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and IT program managers to enhance existing business applications and facilitate solutions to meet business requirements.
• Architect technical solutions for enterprise systems using the Apigee API Management platform to drive the value equation.
• Adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.
• Define standards and guidelines around Scalability, Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management, Performance Monitoring, and KPI for end-to-end process execution.
• Knowledge of SOA and API Design patterns for building integration systems ground up:
  • Message Routing
  • Content Enrichment
  • Message Filtering
  • Message Transformation
  • Guaranteed delivery
  • Message sequencing
  • Batch message processing
  • Error handling and reconciliation mechanisms.
• Knowledge of Rest, SOAP, JSON, Web Services Interoperability, WS-* standards, and ability to suggest, criticize, and formulate solutions in multi-vendor and architecture committee meetings.
• Identify, analyze, and design integration flows using Apigee; technically own and manage the process of ensuring on-time and on-budget build and integration of the solution elements.
• Write technical and design documents for proposed solutions.
• Good understanding of API and integration design patterns & best practices.
• Provide technical ability screening for new team members.
• Assist in preparing roadmaps & strategy for Integration.
• Work on technical POCs to prove out technology.

Requirements:

• 15-18 years of experience on cloud computing, Azure, Java, Restful API, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and microservices architecture.
• Experience in API design using Swagger, Postman, and Azure API Management.