Principal Architect I

Overview:

In 2024, we are pursuing our ambitions to continue to enable organizations' digital transformation. We are looking for our new Principal Services Architect to join Axway's family. Are you ready? Join us now!!

Together, we can. Together, we will. Axway is an enterprise integration company that's been around for over 20 years to digitally transform businesses of all sizes with more than 11,000 customers in 100 countries. Axway revitalizes IT infrastructures to enable brilliant digital customer experiences to unlock new business innovation and capabilities. Axway puts companies on a secure, future-proof path for growth.

With Axway, you'll go far because we're better together. You'll exchange ideas with a culturally rich global community of over 1,550 members who connect remotely or show up onsite in every time zone. And you'll have the support and camaraderie of your Axway leadership and colleagues to remind you that you're not alone on your journey and have taken one more step forward every day. Together, we can accomplish anything. Learn more: www.axway.com.

Digital technology is no longer just another tool in the IT, marketing, sales or service toolbox to engage, inspire and attract customers. It is becoming the foundation of entirely new ways of doing business as well as giving rise to entirely new businesses. There could be 100 billion connected devices expected by 2025, leading towards a trillion-sensor ecosystem. 1 billion digital natives are expected to join the workforce over the next 7 years. In a hyper-connected era of mobile, social, cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things, future growth will depend on platform business models.

Axway (Euronext: AXW.PA) is a catalyst for transformation. With Axway AMPLIFY™, our cloud- enabled data integration and engagement platform, leading brands better anticipate, adapt and scale to meet ever-changing customer expectations. Our unified, API-first approach connects data from anywhere, fuels millions of apps and delivers real-time analytics to build customer experience networks. From idea to execution, we help make the future possible for more than 11,000 organizations in 100 countries. To learn more about Axway, visit www.axway.com.

Responsibilities:

As a Principal architect, you will be challenged to engage on the following levels:

• Lead solution alignment workshop sessions to gather customer requirements and critical business challenges
• Collaborate with members of Axway teams as well as client-side resources
• Install Axway API Management solution in high availability environments
• Integrate with Axway Amplify Enterprise Marketplace
• Conduct deployment and optimization tasks across the full API Management life cycle including design, creation, orchestration, protecting, security, deployment, promotion and monitoring
• Mentor (informal enablement) and train (formal classrooms) clients on solutions
• Assess existing customer implementations and provide recommendations / best practices
• Analyze and execute significant infrastructure updates and product upgrades
• Map customer requirements to a solution approach and work estimates

Qualifications:

General Skills

• Excellent interpersonal verbal & written communication skills
• Ability to build strong internal and external relationships
• High standard for solution and process quality, strong attention to detail
• Ability to self-manage, self-learn and independently deliver results

Technical Critical Requirements

• Experience in system and/or application administration using Linux
• Experience with tools in the Software Development Life Cycle including source control (git), build systems (Jenkins), issue tracking (JIRA), and requirements management
• API Management Concepts
• PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and X509 certificates
• HTTP and related technologies experience
• Experience building and using web APIs (SOAP, XML, REST, JSON)
• Experience testing web-based APIs (APIs based on REST architecture)
• Experience in the web application security and federated identity industry
• SAML, WS-Fed, WS-Trust, OAuth, OpenID, XACML, Kerberos
• Experience with Databases RDBMS and NoSQL (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra)
• Experience with using Docker or Ansible
• Experience with deploying container-based cluster engines using Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
• Understand cloud related technologies
• DevOps: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins
• Experience with:
  • Joomla
  • HTML
  • CSS
• Application development languages (at least one of the following):
• Java/C#/Groovy/Go
• Javascript
• Python/Jython
• Shell (Bash)

Technical Optional Requirements (nice to have)

• Experience with API Management Platforms -- Axway/Vordel APIGateway, Apigee, CA/Layer 7 APIGateway, Akana, SoftwareAG
• Web application development experience
• Microsoft ADFS, CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager
• Experience with Mobile development
• Experience with network concepts (OSI Layer) and tools (Wireshark)
• SaaS Application Integration
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, Google, Rackspace

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