Solution Integration Architect (API)

Job Description

Advise on technical best practice for Digital solutions from software selection through to technical architectures and implementation processes

Advise on design and development throughout iterations of delivery from a technical perspective

Perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments and use in designing the solution

Provide thought leadership and practical experience in the design and testing of the Digital solutions



Skill

Logical and Physical Data modelling; Data Dictionaries

Cluster and parallel computer architectures

Programming in Java/ Java GUI, XML/ XSLT, HTML/ Java Script

Hands-on experience of Java, Spring Boot, React, API technology

Web applications servers (Apache HTTP Server & Tomcat, IIS, Websphere)

End to end agile infrastructure architecture across all layers

Service architecture - Experience of API and service-based architectures using SOAP, REST APIs, micro-services and utilising JSON for web or mobile applications

Enterprise scale distributed NoSQL solutions including MongoDB, in-memory databases and caching solutions adopted for globally distributed Digital solutions

CI/CD - tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Stash, SonarQube, Performance centre

Cloud - PaaS/IaaS/SaaS – Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure

Methods and delivery - DevOps processes and experience. Strong understanding of lean and agile methods of software delivery including Scrum, Kanban, Lean UX, XP

Networking (Cisco, TCP/UDP, LAN/WAN)

High availability and contingency solutions