Hiring - API Architect - Remote

Job Description

Job Position: API Architect

Job Type: W2 Contract

Location: Atlanta, GA

Duration: 40 Weeks 

Implement and deploy API solutions while demonstrating expertise in a number of areas including cloud computing, API design and development, Public and Private API design and development, cloud messaging, ground-to-cloud connectivity, highly scalable distributed systems. Supports projects and design recommendations that span the entire infrastructure. Contributes to creating strategy and evolvable systems, including guidelines, standards, and policies. Collaborates with business leaders to help define business strategy and align creative information technology systems architecture to support the strategy. This requires a high degree of interaction with business and operations units to understand the functional needs of the system users as well as the various technology teams, both within and outside of US Bank.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Creates design principles and prepares technical and infrastructure architecture deliverables that meet business requirements and customer needs. Work is conducted in accordance to standards and methodologies and is consistent with the target business architecture strategy

Participates in product design recommendations that span the entire infrastructure framework.

Manage and prioritize the product and feature backlog for your products and APIs
Lead the API/Micro-Services solution development and delivery, including hands on development
Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation and preparing detailed specifications from which complex programs will be written.
Provide application support, which includes problem research, analysis, resolution, and on-call support
Work with QA/Testing groups to resolve issues and to ensure software quality
Meet with clients to understand their needs and offer consulting services to internal groups.
Develop and maintain API?s for multiple lines of business within an efficient Agile SDLC and act as an advocate for the API platform
Builds technical relationships with business, operations, and technical teams and leads design efforts that provides innovative solutions and complex architectures
Work cross-functionally with various Architects, Engineers, and Product owners across multiple teams in a rapidly evolving environment to translate business needs into API interface and functional requirements

Additional Skills & Responsibilities:
• Responsible for release management and tracking progress and completeness of implementation tasks.
• Responsible for maintaining and keeping system documentation.
• Excellent development skills using React.js and Java
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating, and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation
• Recommend solutions to improve business with a focus on core architecture, technology strategies and standards