API Architect

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 and Requirement:

adapt to a rapidly changing business environment

Define standards and guidelines around Scalability, Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management and Performance Monitoring and KPI for end-to-end process execution

Knowledge of SOA and API Design patterns for building integration systems ground up using 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 a multi-vendor and architecture committee meetings.

Identify, analyze and design integration flows using Apigee and technically own and manage the process of ensuring on time and on budget build and integration of the various elements of the solution

Write technical and design documents for proposed solution

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

Looking for someone with 15-18 years of experience on cloud computing, Azure, Java, Restful API, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and microservices architecture. The candidate should have experience in API design using Swagger, Postman, and Azure API Management.