API Delivery Director

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver effective solution designs within the Open Banking Center of Excellence (COE), focusing on API design and security.
• Develop end-to-end API solutions that align with broader solution implementations to meet business needs.
• Contribute to overall solution planning, including estimation processes and identification of technical risks, issues, and assumptions.
• Define and implement best practices for API design, incorporating industry standards and identifying areas for improvement.
• Create and deliver design artifacts, either independently or as part of a team.
• Engage stakeholders through workshops to achieve desired outcomes.
• Present solution designs to the Architecture Review Board when necessary.
• Ensure alignment of solutions with strategic architectural principles and directions.
• Review technical team outputs, such as designs and code, to ensure they align with the overall solution design.
• Collaborate with the delivery lead to break down solutions for iterative sprint delivery.
• Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure solutions remain fit for purpose.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Extensive experience as a solution architect for large-scale API integration projects.
• Strong expertise in REST API design principles, including the creation of Swagger or RAML definitions.
• Proficiency in API security standards, including mutual authentication, OAuth, and OIDC.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (preferred).
• Expertise in industry-standard API management platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway).
• Experience in building and deploying distributed microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Deep understanding of observability, logging, monitoring, and error handling.
• Familiarity with tools like Splunk or ELK (preferred).
• Proficiency in public cloud platforms, with AWS preferred.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration Patterns and Kafka (preferred).
• Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Financial services industry experience (advantageous).
• Proven ability to take ownership of complex deliveries and lead projects effectively.