Solution Architect (API/Integration)

Location

Warrington

Role description

The Solutions Architect will be a key member within the Enterprise Architecture team, providing expert guidance on the integration and interoperability between the various System C products and the API Platform to service overall interoperability external to the System C portfolio. 

Responsibilities

• Leads on the evaluation and design of interoperability solutions, ensuring compliance with existing and emerging standards as appropriate.
• Applies an innovative approach to achieving interoperability goals, both with the Interoperability development team and all other product development teams where the creation of interoperability solutions is a core product capability.
• Includes helping establish API organizations, API development methodology and selection of API technology components including API gateway
• Lead API design driven by business requirements and ensures the alignment with the interoperability strategy
• Communicate risks, issues, challenges around the interoperability solutions
• Convert requirements into design and architecture collateral
• Assist in responding to RFPs / proposals
• Participate in thought leadership, vendor relationships
• Is the primary source of expertise for national services such as ERS, PDS and CPIS
• Evaluates and advises product teams on Standards adoption where interoperability is a key requirement specified
• Work with design, development, and architect teams utilising Scaled Agile product development methods, defining and ensuring understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria for development.

Applicant profile

• You are an experienced Architect - you ideally have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience.
• A strong technical background in topics relevant to this role such as API design, cloud software development, data storage patterns & schemas, and microservice & serverless oriented architectures
  - although you need not be the expert in the room, you should feel very comfortable with the concepts and patterns
• A believer and practitioner of agile and lean concepts that result in MVP’s tested hypotheses, and iterative learning to yield the needed business and technology outcomes.
• An eagerness to simplify, but without letting perfect be the enemy of good. We are the product of several merged companies, so comfort with distilling redundant/complex systems incrementally is paramount.
• Excellent presence and public speaking skills: your team(s) will rely on you to lead architecture and integration, strategy, and critical project stewardship. Occasional interaction with partners/customers is expected.
• The willingness to “lead from the front” when times are tough
• You are able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving environment
• An ability to develop relationships across the organization in support of efficient delivery of work.
• You possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• You are highly organized. With many people doing many things in a fast-moving company, strong organizational skills—both for yourself and for the team—will be required.
• Experience on multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Google, Azure)
• Experience consolidating multi-stack architectures in an incremental fashion
• History of success in highly visible roles

Requirements

• 2 to 5 years of experience with an API management / gateway software like Apigee or Azure API Management or equivalent with the knowledge of API mashups, analytics, developer networks, monetization models and security
• 5+ years of development experience using Java or .NET, XML, JSP or ASP, JavaScript or VB Script and Node.js; WSDL/SOAP/XML and REST/JSON, Swagger or equivalent
• Experience in HTTP/HTTPS protocol, web services and use of web servers
• Experience in designing relational databases and SQL scripting
• 2 to 5 years of know-how in implementing security and identity protocols such as OpenID, TLS, OAuth, SAML, SSO, PKI (encryption and key management), REST
• Knowledge in API design and implementation and system integration using APIs
• Experience of HL7 FHIR is desirable but not essential
• Experience in working on the cloud (iPaas / Saas)

Applications

Please apply in writing, sending a covering letter & CV to hrrecruitment@systemc.com