API Application Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION


The Commercial Digital Integration team is seeking an Integration Architect to own, maintain and communicate the integration architecture across all customer facing Channels for Commercial Customers. You will work closely with the Chief Development Office, Enterprise Architecture and Commercial agile teams to apply enterprise integration patterns to define common integrations through APIs, business events/messages and bulk data transmissions. You will:

• Provide leadership on discovery with Product Managers and Product Owners, develop integration architectures in collaboration with application specific Architects, and collaborate with developers and analysts to define detailed design and data mapping for integrations
• Lead the overall solution and technical design and implementation for a robust and scalable data integration and API platform
• Develop architecture roadmaps that reflect the target state solutions and various interim states as solutions are developed and prioritized utilizing an agile MVP mindset
• Produce as-is and to-be application integration solution architecture for a variety of scenarios to meet business requirements and scale the company
• Define stories for technical debt and collaborate with Product Owners to prioritize
• Mentor and support integration developers and assist with development as needed
• Produce presentations and present simple solutions to complex business problems to technical and business stakeholders across the company
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to define and refine enterprise integration patterns and standards

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10 years of IT experience designing architectures and delivering solutions including data/integration architecture, technical infrastructure architecture and application architecture.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities and effectively prioritize them
• Strong knowledge of REST API's, JSON, OAUTH and API Management, preferably utilizing Apigee
• Development experience with Java and the Spring framework
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact effectively across all organizational levels, and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to multiple layers of peers and leadership
• Hands on experience in Agile Architecture delivery practices, tools, and execution
• Experience with security, performance, availability, and environment configuration
• Experience with DevOps and data solution testing including CI/CD spanning on prem, cloud and hybrid infrastructures
• Experience in commercial/business banking
• Experience with banking data models and financial services (fintech) systems