API & Integration Architect
The person taking on the role is expected to be knowledgeable in TMF OPEN APIs and Integration mechanisms and able to design and implement such solutions.
The role entails working closely with product teams as well as other domain architects.
Technical Skills:
• Technical knowledge across Telco-IT stack landscape [e.g. Digital, BSS, OSS, ESS]
• Platform architecture and engineering, successfully leading automation and API and integration transformation project in an enterprise environment
• Deploying and managing orchestration, containers, microservices etc. Experience with competing approaches like serverless (Lambda or Functions) or AWS ECS/Fargate is a plus
• IT integration mechanisms: Kafka, RabbitMQ, mulesoft, Tibco, iPaaS, HANA cloud integration, Biztalk
• All aspects of the digital technology covering Web, apps, CMS, CDN, integration gateways, development frameworks, containerization and cloud tech
• Experience with agile delivery, DevOps and microservices (e.g. NodeJS, Spring Boot etc.), exposure to frameworks and libraries such as Spring Cloud, etc.
• AWS and Azure public cloud, Containerization (Docker), Orchestration-Kubernetes, Kafka & service mesh (Envoy, Istio, AWS App Mesh, etc.), cloud tech, DevOps and microservices (experience in NodeJS, Spring Boot etc.), APIs (RESTful/OData/JSON) and API design, CI/CD Automation (CloudFormation, TerraForm, AWS CodePipeline /CodeDeploy, Jenkins, etc.)
• Deep expertise in integration mechanisms (Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Integration/ iPaaS, ESB and SOA service-based Integration, messaging systems and legacy Integration)
• API Management Platform (e.g. Mulesfot, Dell Boomi, Oracle Fusion, MS Biztalk, Google/Apigee, Software AG, AWS Gatewa and IBM API Connect)
• Integration of API tooling with Public Cloud, SaaS vendor cloud, on premise existing OSS/ESS
• Security Identity standards (OAuth, OAuth2, UMA, OIDC and SAML, JWT)
• Data pipeline integration: supporting millions / billions of daily transactions. Experience in stream event message technologies with exposure to messaging frameworks like Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Integration mechanisms and integration of BSS with ESS & OSS layer
• TMF Open API
Soft Skills:
• High tolerance for ambiguity – Have the ability to operate with flexibility in an uncertain environment, with multiple demands and be able to assess and evaluate the range of options that should be considered
• Possess a high EQ – To know your strengths and lean in to them and use them to your full advantage whilst being self-aware of your weaknesses and vices
• Speed of trust – Make and keep commitments – even very small commitments – to ourselves and to others
• Enduring Relationships – Work collaboratively to help us improve how we deliver what our stakeholders need, in a mindset characterized by co-creation and co-innovation
• Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit – Challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Have conviction and be tenacious. Do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion, once a decision is reached, commit to it fully
Qualifications:
• Minimum of 10 years’ software architecture and engineering experience with several years of relevant cloud experience (Architecture, Development and DevOps) including Cloud-native applications and services on private or public cloud technologies
• Experience with Enterprise platforms with an emphasis on CI/CD automation and security is desirable
• Technical product certifications with demonstrable use / knowledge of design application