API architect responsible for designing and implementing API solutions and strategy, and the API adoption process within the organization.

Candidate must be able to lead and guide a team on developing solutions that fully integrate and collaborate with existing IT systems to solve complex business solutions. Candidate should have a holistic view of enterprise solutions, taking into consideration operational costs, security, performance engineering, application development, and systems management.

Responsibilities: 

Candidate for this position play roles like, lead architect and technical team leader to consultant and technical evangelist.

This is a client-facing role: the candidate must have a sound understanding of API and technology architecture but also very good communication skills, with the ability to adapted them to different audiences.

Qualifications: 

-Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API management platforms and API related activities: requirement analysis, solution architecture and design, resource-based API modeling, micro-services architecture

-Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices

-Strong knowledge of API Management system (any) APIGEE, Akana, CA APIM (Layer7), IBM Connect, Mulesoft,

-Experience with SOAP, REST web services, integration technologies like ESB (Any platform like Mulesoft, WSO2, IBM ESB, Oracle ESB)

-Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API security standards and implementation (Oauth, OpenId)

-Knowledge regarding APIs applied to business: API Economy, Monetization / Billing, Industry use cases

-Proven track record of acting as SME for API projects

-Knowledge and experience designing and implementing SOA and API Governance