API Management (APIM) SME

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Project Details – Size, Scale, Scope?

Product-based now as an organization. They focus on integration and API – work on products that help with the API lifecycle – building platform for managing them, monitoring them, modernization consulting, event-based integration patterns, etc.

Products: API management service (Azure), API marketplace (Full-stack developers), API lifting/code generation, governance, consulting as SMEs in this area within the company (reviewing API designs, integration architecture, etc.) – providing foundational products & services – not the ones responsible for building most of the individual APIs etc. but providing standards and enabling the developers to build/use.

Have been using staff augmentation in these teams but now really wanting to scale a full team instead so that they can get more consistency and offload the overall maintaining of team size/resources and strategic partnership with supplier where they can provide a pool of resources with a mix of skills, seniority, experience and is managed together as a whole for augmentation, skill set slight pivots, predictable delivery, etc.

Will be blended into their 2 existing product teams that are internal versus being completely separate and report in through their product owners but looking to have resources as well as thought leadership and ideas from the vendor.

Azure services focus: Azure API management & developer platform.

API systems pretty much all in cloud – little to no on-prem anymore.

API Platform – API Management SME and Understanding of Key Azure Services (API Management)

API Management SME:

High-level Azure Engineer/Architect (drive next level of automation and capabilities) who has deep understanding of key Azure services for API management (API management, API gateway, etc.)

Asking questions like: Can we automate more, can we do more at time of deployment for checking, what can we do for more proactive solutioning for things etc.