Job Title: Integration / API Lead Developer

Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Integration / API Lead Developer who will be responsible for setting up, architecting, designing, developing, and implementing APIs to facilitate seamless communication between various systems. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of API design principles, data mapping, cloud-native architectures, and monitoring solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

1. 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.
2. Client Management:

• Should have good communication and articulation skills.
• Should be able to front face the clients and gather business requirements.

1. • 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.
2. 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.

1. • Translate business requirements into functional API specifications, ensuring alignment with business use cases.
2. Data Mapping:
   • Conduct data mapping exercises, ensuring accurate mapping from source to target systems based on business use cases.
3. 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

1. • Utilize cloud services for seamless integration and effective event-driven communication between systems.
   • Candidate should be able to setup end to end AWS Services / Components for seamless integration preferably using AWS Cloud Development kit
   • Candidate should be able to identify AWS services for a particular use case and be able to carry out a quick PoC to support his design.
2. Monitoring and Reliability:
   • Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance, reliability, and create reliability dashboards for effective system oversight.
3. 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

1. Non-Functional Requirements (NFR):
   • Familiarity with non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, and security to ensure APIs meet defined standards.
2. 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.
3. Good to Have
   • OneTrust and MAP Experience [AEP, Eloqua, SFC/SFMC, Marketo, DotDigital, Epsilon, Dynamics, Snowflake].

• 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.