Lead Api Architect

Why this role?

GM Financial is hiring a Lead API Architect to build our API Center for Enablement (API-COE) team.  Our company is committed to using cutting-edge technology to design and implement effective APIs that meet the needs of a constantly evolving industry.  As a Lead API Architect, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a talented team of professional and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver solutions that drive business success. Plus, with a focus on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, you’ll be part of a culture that values and respects all individuals!

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity – apply today! And join the GM Financial family!

Incentives at a glance…

• The Culture:  a work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
• Opportunity to work in a hybrid model: work 2-days per week in office
• GM Financial 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company’s match
• Paid holidays, paid time off and floating holiday’s
• All full-time team members receive eight hours of paid time off to volunteer each quarter
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement, plus, many other incentives …

What You’ll do...

• Establish and document full life cycle of API Governance standards and best practices
• Build out secure integration architecture to interface with a diverse set of systems
• Lead creation of standard solution architecture patterns for Enterprise API consumers/providers
• Establish API Governance model with guard rails to streamline design review and approval process
• Train others on REST APIs, microservices architecture and API Gateways, containers, and automation
• Drives towards industry standards and RESTful services, but understands limitations of legacy systems and identifies appropriate integration approaches
• Evangelize SOAP/REST/Async API design, development, and operationalization standards
• Lead and coach others towards enablement of contemporary engineering and agile practices
• Drive improvement in the velocity, scale, and sophistication of engineering solutions
• Document the API landscape, identifying gaps between current systems and desired end-state; creating a roadmap to deliver end-state solutions

The ideal candidate will...

• have a strong background in technology and business domains to build our global advisory practice;
• develop API standards, provide training and support to product teams
• design, development and testing API based applications and architecture
• work with key stakeholders to implement API strategies by using unified platform and automated solutions.
• serves as technical expert in API based applications and/or business architecture for product teams, including but not limited to enterprise architecture, cyber.
• Experience in BIAN and OAuth, Mutual SSL etc.
• Experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud services, and associated API platform software
• Detailed understanding and working experience of standardized API style guides (Naming Conventions, Structure Standardization, versioning, Error Handling Standardization, Format Support), API standards
• Strong Background in Rest / SOAP based API development
• Strong software engineering and experience with Twelve-Factor App methodology
• Good knowledge of Integration/API life cycle & methodology

Education and requirements:

• 7-10 years Solution Architecture experience, designing and developing IT solutions
• 6-8 years implementing large scale API based solutions with ESB/API tooling
• 2-4 years leading an organization in the transition to a microservice architecture
• Bachelor’s Degree required

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