API Lead

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