We are looking for API Technical Lead to work with one of our leading client.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead and mentor API and event-driven architecture development across diverse teams of software engineering professionals
• Design and architect advanced API solutions, encouraging continuous improvement.
• Design and architect loosely coupled event-driven asynchronous solutions.
• Engage in extensive internal and external stakeholder management, aligning with business priorities.
• Oversee the setup and maintenance of scalable, highly available, and resilient platforms.
• Create capabilities enabling the federated development of APIs to standards and design patterns.
• Implement and uphold standard practices, design patterns, and strategies across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of API development programs, including CI/CD and the role of Contract testing (Stoplight Spectral linting to check conformity to OpenAPI standards).
• Deep understanding of API architecture, development frameworks, and technology stacks.
• Deep understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging patterns, testing strategies and technology stacks.
• Contribute to drawing up specific technical proposals for a modified or replacement system.
• Work closely with the Lead Developer, Technical Architects (TA), and other developers to build or enhance systems.
• Delivering operational delivery automation and continuous improvement in conjunction with DevOps suppliers and IT Operations.
• Delivering operational monitoring of components through integrated solutions
• Working in other technologies used at EBRD beyond your core disciplines as required by strategic and project demands.
• Maintain and improve your own skill set to ensure it stays relevant to the current market and industry trends.
• Mentor and develop other developers in your team whether staff, contract or externally supplied.
• A diligent and conscientious approach to completing work on time and to an agreed, acceptable level of quality is required.
• Specific responsibility to set up and oversee a community of practice to cover the Front End (UI) application development capabilities across the EBRD Monarch Eco-System.
• Represent EBRD IT in stakeholder engagement or show case events to promote the benefits of having a Community of Practice and demonstrating these through examples of good practice.
• Scope of services successfully transitioned to third party provider and knowledge transfer complete.

Essential:

• Api Design & Best practices
• Event Driven Architecture
• Api Testing & Deployment practices
• Tools used for Api Design, Develop & Test
• Api Management
• Rest Api, Open Api specification
• Api Strategies, Governance
• Messaging Technologies (eg Azure Topics/service bus, Kafka)
• Microservice
• Java & related technology to build API - this might required to evaluate later by someone from Java background