API & Integration Architect
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