Senior API and Integration Architect responsible for design and providing guidance in API & Integration Solutions (Kafka and Apigee)

Our Insurance client is looking for a Senior API and Integration Architect responsible for design and providing guidance in API & Integration Solutions (Kafka and Apigee)

• Permanent full time position
• Location: Toronto - on site 1-2 days a week

Responsibilities:

• Architect the enterprise API, Event and Microservice Integration Platforms, reporting directly to AVP, API & Integration.
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of API & Integration platforms strategy, standards, patterns and best practices
• Drive Enterprise Integration Strategies aligning with Enterprise Target Architecture, working with Enterprise Architects, Cloud Engineer, Info Security and business domain counterparts and delivery teams to implement enterprise integration architectures.
• Design and provide expert guidance to team in API & Integration Solution
• Working with BSA to ensure the creations of verbose API Specification and working with QE to ensure API’s are thoroughly tested
• Maintains an overall understanding of all changes impacting Microservices and Integration platform, including vendor, and external implementations outside of portfolio

Must Haves:

• 8-10 years of experience as a Solution Architect working with Integration platforms and API-oriented development
• 1-2 years of modern Enterprise Architecture experience, with hands-on applications’ architecture and solution design
• Understanding and experience on most of the following architectural styles:
• Layered Architectures, Transactional applications, Client-Server, Sync/Async messaging, Microservices, PaaS-based architectures and SaaS-based applications; Experience designing Cloud PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Understanding and experience on most of the following types of Integration solutions:
• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), API Management Platform, Kafka Streaming Platform and iPaaS
• Understanding and experience on most of the following types of Integration protocols/principles:
• SOAP and WS-* stack, REST APIs, RESTful, RPC/RFC
• API REST and Integration platforms
• Expert proficiency in the building the Apigee and Kafka platforms along with knowledge on the consumption of the different features