What are the responsibilities and job description for the API Architect position at Alliance Sourcing Network?
Job Details
Onsite interview in Alpharetta, GA
API Governance Consultant will be responsible for providing technical leadership for API management and modernization initiatives. The consultant will provide technical leadership and expertise for designing and implementing new API capabilities as well migrating legacy APIs. The consultant will partner, advise and train developers, product managers and architects on RESTful API patterns and best practices. A successful candidate will deliver innovative, robust, cost effective technology solutions which align to enterprise strategies and achieve business results.
Role
- Establish API standards and evangelize best practices
- Provide thought leadership in DevOps best practices
- Research emerging trends in Microservices, APIs and legacy modernization
- Provide technical leadership in Microservices design, Cloud development and migration initiatives.
- Mentor other technical resources
- Hands on development experience
Desirable Knowledge/Experience
- Significant understanding of Microservice patterns & concepts & their application to application design and business solutions
- Champion best practices for Microservices (Domain Driven Design)
- Define Microservices based architecture to support Digitization of AT&T systems
- Design microservices that are scalable and reliable with high availability
- Identify and design API layer for service registry, management, throttling, routing etc.
- Design security and authentication features in compliance with company policies
- Design system with the right mix of Monitoring, Alerting and Tracing
- Define Templates for Development Teams and perform regular code reviews to ensure best practices are followed
- Design Integration layer using a combination of approaches (services, messaging etc.) to support downstream data flow and also work in concert with existing systems
- Develop services using technologies like but not limited to Spring Boot & Node
- Define strategy for Test Driven Development to ensure requirements coverage
- Prepare documentation where necessary, including training, process flows, system structure, etc.
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