API Delivery Director

Description:

Accountable for delivering effective solution designs within the Open Banking COE, taking the lead on the delivery from an API design and API Security perspective

Design end-to-end API solutions to meet business needs within the context of a broader solution implementation

Contributor to overall solution planning, providing input into the estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks, issues, and assumptions

Define and derive best practices in the API space, adopting industry best practices and highlighting areas of improvements

Produce required design artefacts, independently or as part of a team

Engage with key stakeholders in workshops to get desired outcome

Present to the Customer's Architecture Review Board when necessary

Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction

Review the designs and code produced by the technical teams to ensure alignment with the overall solution design

Support the delivery lead, to break down the solution so that it can be delivered iteratively in sprints

Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose



Essential Skills & Experience

Highly experienced solution architect in designing solutions for large-scale API integration projects and programmes

Deep knowledge and experience in REST API design principles with experience in creation of Swagger / RAML definitions

Experience of API security standards such as mutual authentication and OAuth and OIDC would be mandatory

Understanding of Domain Driven Design would be beneficial

Expertise of the any industry standard API management platforms (E.g.- MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway)

Experience in modelling, building and deployment large-scale distributed micro-services using Java and spring boot

Deep expertise of cross cutting concerns observability, logging, monitoring, Error Handling

Knowledge of any industry standard solution Splunk, ELK would be beneficial

Expertise of any public cloud (AWS preferred)

Knowledge of Enterprise Integration Patterns with deep understanding of Kafka would also be beneficial
• Expertise in any industry DevOps solutions (E.g. - Jenkins, GitLab, AWS CodePipeline)
• Financial services experience would be advantageous
• Ability to take a lead role and take ownership of complex deliveries Financial services experience would be advantageous