Azure API Lead

Job Description

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 months & extendable

Number of positions: 1

Experience: 10-12 years

Working shift timing: 4:00 pm - 1:00 am IST 

• Implement an API architecture using Azure API Management, including security, API Gateway, Analytics, and API Services
• Design reusable assets, components, standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate API and integration projects
• Conduct functional, regression, and load testing on APIs
• Gather requirements and define the strategy for application integration
• Develop using the following types of Integration protocols/principles: SOAP and Web services stack, REST APIs, RESTful, RPC/RFC
• Analyze, design, and coordinate the development of major components of the APIs including hands-on implementation, testing, review, build automation, and documentation

• Work with the DevOps team to package release components to deploy into a higher environment.

Required Qualifications

• Expert Hands-on experience in the following:
• Technologies such as Spring Boot, Microservices, API Management & Gateway, Event Streaming, Cloud-Native Patterns, Observability & Performance optimizations
• Data modeling, Master and Operational Data Stores, Data ingestion & distribution patterns, ETL / ELT technologies, Relational and Non-Relational DB's, DB Optimization patterns
• At least 5+ years of experience with Azure APIM, Logic APP, Function APP
• At least 8+ years of experience in Azure SaaS and PaaS
• At least 8+ years experience in API Management including technologies such as Mulesoft and Apigee
• At least the last 5 years in consulting with the latest implementation on Azure SaaS services
• At least 5+ years in MS SQL / MySQL development including data modeling, concurrency, stored procedure development, and tuning
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and encourage partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, results and solution-oriented, and personal accountability and resiliency
• Should be a self-starter and team player, capable of working with a team of architects, co-developers, and business analysts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge on building and working on/around data integration/engineering / Orchestration

• Position requires expert knowledge across multiple platforms, integration patterns, processes, data/domain models, and architectures.
• Candidates must demonstrate an understanding of the following disciplines: enterprise architecture, business architecture, information architecture, application architecture, and integration architecture.
• Experience with Agile Methodology / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Preferred Education/Skills:

• Prefer a Masters degree
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science with a minimum of 10+ years relevant experience or equivalent.