API and Integrations Architect
Job Description
Capstone IT is helping our client to hire an API and Service Integration Architect with a strong Microsoft Azure and .NET background.
Location: 100% remote
This role will be providing key oversight and direction for the Enterprise API & Service Integrations Teams architecture, design, and implementation to support end user API and Integrations needs.
This person will report directly to the Director of Middleware and will work closely with teams across the organization towards API First and API Led Integration.
The right candidate will have an eye for understanding the needs of the business and champion enterprise API and Service Integration architecture and modeling that will support execution.
Duties:
The API & Service Integrations Solution Architect is to advice, construct and implement the development standards and technical design for the organizations API and Service Integration solutions, including when to use existing ETL Solutions.
This includes responsibility for -
Design of APIs
API Management
API Catalog
Enterprise Based Services (SOA/Microservices)
API Implementation best practices and standards
Producing APIs
Consuming APIs
Create and provide solutions within a variety of computing infrastructures and public and private Cloud computing technologies.
Conduct evaluations of technology standards, tools, products, and solutions, make rational design decisions from business and technical perspectives, and communicate recommendations.
Define guidelines and recommendations based on leading industry practices tailored to the clients needs and infrastructure.
Maintain responsibility for defining the technical strategy of a system, work closely with all stakeholders to vet technology decisions that support product capabilities now and for the future and guide it successfully through its execution.
Key Responsibilities:
Review Business Requirements Documentation, Technical Design Documentation and participate in peer review cycles with technical & non-technical counterparts.
Collaborates with Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Developers and Project Managers in the development and integration of APIs, Enterprise Service Integrations, and solutions within the purview of Digital Enablement, and across the organization.
Responsible for creating and maintaining the catalog of architectural diagrams used by the team.
Evaluates existing applications and systems. Recommends improvements or modifications.
Support API Governance efforts, including guidance, stewardship, and frameworks for managing APIs across the organization and identify opportunities for API reuse, migration, or retirement.
Acts as technical mentor for members of the Enterprise Integration Platform & Delivery team, providing input and feedback to others.
Recommends training on new technologies to keep the development staff on the cutting edge.
Establishes and maintains documentation of programs, user guides, policies, and procedures, particularly in support of the acceptance of solutions as credible to non-technical users of information.
Encourage and support a self-service architecture to promote a trusted source of APIs and Enterprise Services, leading the enterprise in its goal to use API Led Integration, and API First Thinking to deliver on our Digital Enablement goals.
Provides oversight, input, design, and implementation support for new solution development, including but not limited to new API Management platform, API Runtime Environment, enterprise service integrations / micro-services, messaging, Event-Driven and service-oriented architecture.
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Information Services or a related field.
3+ years of experience in Technology Architecture and API driven design including hybrid and cloud environments- Microsoft Azure highly preferred.
3+ years of Service Architecture Patterns
3+ years of Message & Event-Driven Architecture.
Working experience with API architecture, including various data formats & protocols like JSON, SOAP, REST, etc.
Implementation Experience with OAS, JWT, OAUTH2, OIDC
Experience with conducting proof-of-concept, developing prototyping, and building reference models.
Proven ability to work independently to coordinate and solve highly complex technical data transformation issues.
Ability to effectively communicate with customers to clarify data format requirements and negotiate compromise.
Requires effective communication and presentation skills.
Demonstrates the ability to work and design for multiple projects.
Maintains knowledge of current and upcoming technologies.
Mentor developers conducting code reviews and acts as a resource to others to resolve complex problems.
Works under minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgment
Preferred Technology Skills:
Information Systems or Systems Engineering
Four - five years of experience in a technical consulting, solution architect, or systems engineering role which includes experience with building large-scale architecture solutions, including security concerns, high availability methods, multiple platforms, hardware considerations, network design, monitoring solutions, virtualization, performance, capacity planning, and information management practices.
Requires experience in design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e., having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.)
In-depth knowledge of best practices around developing microservices architectures.
Experience with data integration, relational databases, and SQL.
Excellent understanding of multi-tier architecture.
Experience in Azure DevOps including the design and automation of deployments of on-prem and cloud solutions.
3 years of demonstrated experience in the Healthcare industry, with preference for experience with Healthcare Payers.
Capstone IT is an EEO employer
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Employment Options
Base Salary
135,000 - 140,000 USD
Required Academic Degree
Professional Experience
Skills
- Azure
- .NET
- API
- API Development
- API Design
- API Catalog
- SOA
- Microservices
- API Implementation
- ETL
