Solution Designer

**Overview**

The Solution Designer role in MUFG Business Technology Services Engineering team plays an important role in development of solution design and ensure that they align with business domain, architectures, and technology delivery team. The purpose of this role is for understanding the needs and goals of the users and the stakeholders, assessing the needs against the technology framework and translating them into feasible and desirable technical solutions. This role is a technology professional who supports the development of the new solutions by using appropriate process and techniques. It transforms the business requirement and architect solutions into low level specs and a detailed level solutions components which will be used by the developers to deliver the business scope. Additionally, a Solutions Designer research advanced technology regarding best practices in the field and seek to find cost-effective solutions. A well-crafted solution design considers various factors such as the business objectives, user requirements, technological constraints, and available resources. It aims to strike a balance between functionality, usability, performance, technology, and scalability.

**Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities**

Strategic Focus
- Define and document API architecture, including data models, workflows, and interaction and sequence diagrams.
- Develop and maintain API standards and governance to implement the best practices.
- Design and develop API solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure.
- Design and implement integration patterns to ensure seamless data flow and process automation.
- Operational Management
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Create API specifications, swagger documentation, and design guidelines.
- Build solutions by leveraging RESTful, SOAP, and other API design paradigms as required.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to standards.
- Develop and execute test plans to validate API functionality, performance, and security.
- Monitor and analyse API performance, identifying and addressing any issues or bottlenecks.
- Chair and drive the code change control board -CCCB meeting to ensure that the late changes in project does carry any risk into BAU.

People Leadership
- Collaborate with business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- Work with DevOps and IT teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of APIs.
- Provide technical mentorship to junior developers and other team members.
- Collaborate with software engineers to implement and test API integrations.

Governance & Risk
- Maintain design as per the swagger contract and API governance.
- Identify the design and development risk and work proactively to assess and mitigate.
- Work closely with security and compliance team to ensure that there is no security lapse in the design.
- Ensure APIs meet performance, security, and compliance requirements.

The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.

**Experience & Personal Attributes**

Experience
- Overall, 10-12 years of experience with minimum 5 years of experience in API design, development, and integration.
- Proven experience with RESTful and SOAP APIs.
- Experience with API management platforms and service mesh integration.
- Experience with any cloud platforms with PaaS and SaaS.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, or C#.
- Strong understanding of API security standards and practices (e.g., OAuth, JWT).
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of database systems, both SQL and NoSQL.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Exposure to service mesh would be advantage.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Personal Attributes
- Strong interpersonal skills to engage with people at all levels of the organization and build strong relationships and trust with clients and internal stakeholders.
- Highly effective communication, collaboration and influencing skills.
- Strong mentoring skills with a focus on coaching and developing teams.

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