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Job Details
API Technical Lead (Permanent)
Location: London (Hybrid) Country: UK
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
Posted Date: 07 May 2024
Reference: JSP - APITL - 01
Employment Agency: Falcon Chase International
Contact: Chanukya Tippana