Lead Consultant - Enterprise Integration Architect

Enterprise Integration Architecture Accountabilities :

• Design and develop scalable API solutions.

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and business analysts.

• Set best practices, guidelines, and standards for API development.

• Ensure APIs are secure, efficient, and easy to use.

• Troubleshoot and resolve API performance issues.

• Maintain and update API documentation.

• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to development teams.

• Monitor API usage and performance metrics.

• Implement API versioning and lifecycle management.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers.

• Work closely with DevOps teams to ensure smooth deployment.

• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions.

• Develop and maintain API testing strategies.

• Ensure compliance with data protection regulations.

• Optimize API performance and scalability.

• Manage API gateways and related infrastructure.

• Coordinate with third-party vendors and partners.

• Develop and implement API security measures.

• Create and maintain API usage policies.

• Thought leadership. Be change agents to help the organization adopt a g ood practice and s tandard in API Gateway -driven mindset. Take a pragmatic approach to the limitations and risks of API, Integration , and project a realistic picture in front of IT executives who provide overall digital thought leadership.

• Collaborative mindset. To ensure that Integration/API platforms deliver both business and technical requirements, seek to collaborate effectively with data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, ML engineers, other architects, business unit leaders and CxOs (technical and nontechnical personnel), and harmonize the relationships among them .

E AIA /IT aligned Accountabilities :

• Deliver and manage Integration/API A rchitecture ( EAIA ), conceptual and logical models, for operational, master and API products including API models, Integration flows, master/reference data and metadata designs to meet one or more Business Capability requirements.

• Work with business leaders to evolve Integration and API designs to support business strategy.

• O wn the Integration and API designs of one or more Business capability level Integration / API designs, especially major/complex Business Capability areas.

• Take on accountability for the Integration of major change programs impacting whole Business capability areas.

• Assure API change projects in that Business Capability are aligned to Integration/ API through either delivering API / G ateway blueprint artefacts or assessing designs from API M ode ls /Solution Architects assigned to the project .

• Partner with the Data Office s to ensure data governance processes are enabled in all Integration and API designs and provide assurance evidence through standardized metrics: e.g., Master data consumption, data classification metadata application to support access processes.

• Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience