API Platform and Microservices Architect

Responsibilities:

1. Manage Kong as a Lifecycle Management Tool (with similar tools including Apigee and Mulesoft).
2. Design APIs and Microservices.
3. Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles for microservices architecture.
4. Act as a crucial member in supporting a large-scale digital transformation by collaborating with Solution Architects and guiding solutions as part of the Enterprise Architecture Team.
5. Take ownership of the architecture and platform for the API Lifecycle Management Tool and support key integration patterns for Microservices.
6. Provide guidance on the delivery and deployment lifecycle of APIs.
7. Serve as a design authority to assess APIs, schemas, and functional APIs for the Commercial Bank, ensuring environmental sustainability.
8. Promote best practices for evaluating and implementing business initiatives using API-driven solutions.
9. Take ownership of the API Lifecycle Management Tool (Kong or similar tools like Apigee and Mulesoft).
10. Collaborate closely with the Infrastructure Team to prepare capacity planning for the API Lifecycle Management Tool.
11. As a key Enterprise Architecture Team member, support IT initiatives on the Architecture Board for the Commercial Bank.
12. Partner as Platform Architect for the API Lifecycle Management Tool, working with strategic planning and engineering teams to advance ideas from concept to implementation within digital transformation efforts.
13. Engage with external customers and industry partners.
14. Participate in designing, building, and deploying new open-source and vendor-specific platforms, including service requests, provisioning, configuration, monitoring, backup and recovery, and API security.
15. Develop both conceptual and detailed design documentation.
16. Present diverse technological perspectives on APIs to key infrastructure stakeholders through workshops, web conferences, and PowerPoint presentations.
17. Mentor team members on technology, architecture, and delivery of new solutions.
18. Participate in proof-of-concept (POC) activities with applications and projects interested in leveraging APIs.
19. Collaborate closely with IT Operations Service Delivery.
20. Identify, investigate, evaluate, and rapidly develop expertise in emerging technologies and technical fields of relevance to the Commercial Bank.
21. Provide technical leadership and set architectural direction for business services, aligning technical vision with business objectives.

Skills and Competencies

Key Interactions Directly reporting to all software engineers.

Competencies

• Adaptability/Flexibility
• Creativity/Innovation
• Decision Making/Judgment
• Dependability
• Initiative
• Integrity/Ethics
• Problem Solving/Analysis

Skills

• Ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders
• Work effectively under pressure
• Attention to accuracy and detail

Education

• Master’s degree in Information Technology