Description:
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