Api Architect

**Job Title - API Architect**

**Location - Remote**

**Type - Contract**

**Experience required - 10-15 Years**

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Team Management**:

- Should be able to provide oversight & direction to the API development team.
- Should be able to prioritize technical stories based on client’s requirements.
- Should be able to help PM create a feasible plan.
- Should be able to help team in fixing their issues in case they are stuck.
- Should look for ways to improve and enhance the solution.

**Client Management**:

- Should have good communication and articulation skills.
- Should be able to front face the clients and gather business requirements.
- Should be able to translate business requirements into technical requirements for team and work with BA to document them in Jira.
- Should be able to architect and design the solution architecture and then articulate the same to the client.

**API architecture, development, and design**:

- Should be able to come-up with a good architecture given client's constraints and then convince them.
- Should be well versed with AWS well architected framework and should have implemented this in at least 2 projects.
- Architect, design, and develop APIs that enable efficient communication between different systems.
- Translate business requirements into functional API specifications, ensuring alignment with business use cases.

**Data Mapping**:

- Conduct data mapping exercises, ensuring accurate mapping from source to target systems based on business use cases.

**Cloud-Native Architecture**:

- Should be well versed with AWS services (Lambda, SQS, S3, Secrets Manager, AWS development tools, Eventbridge scheduler, CDK knowledge is must) and their usage and well architected framework.
- Should be proficient in defining, architecting and designing non-functional requirements such as performance, security, scalability, reliability, maintainability, monitoring and alert mechanism.
- Should possess great skills to fetch/retrieve data from APIs/SFTP/S3 buckets, process & transform them and then load that data back into other target systems using APIs/SFTP/S3 buckets.
- Proficiency in cloud-native event-driven architectures
- Utilize cloud services for seamless integration and effective event-driven communication between systems.

**Monitoring and Reliability**:

- Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance, reliability, and create reliability dashboards for effective system oversight.

**Communication and Collaboration**:

- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Communicate project progress, challenges, and solutions in a clear and concise manner.
- Should be able to help the team in prioritizing the stories, debugging and solving the issues

**Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)**:

- Familiarity with non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, and security to ensure APIs meet defined standards.

**Work Timings**:

- The role requires availability during 2 PM to 11 PM IST timings to align with team schedules and potential client interactions in different time zones.

**Good to Have**
- OneTrust and MAP Experience [AEP, Eloqua, SFC/SFMC, Marketo, DotDigital, Epsilon, Dynamics, Snowflake].

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Proven experience (7+ years) in API architecture, development, and integration, with a strong portfolio showcasing successful API implementations.
- Proficiency in API design principles, data mapping, and cloud-native architectures, specifically with AWS services.
- Strong understanding of monitoring tools and reliability practices.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Familiarity with data security and compliance standards.

**Job Type**: Freelance
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: ₹100,000.00 - ₹125,000.00 per month

**Experience**:

- total work: 10 years (required)

Work Location: Remote