Director Technology (Integration - API)

Define the overall API strategy and establish the long term strategic goals for Service Catalogue, API platforms and Portals.

Coordinate all activities related to API Practice building which includes but not limited to (Hiring, Firing, Training, Target Utilization, Revenue Generation, Bench Management, Capability Building, Rotation, GTM capability). Actively demonstrate differentiable thought leadership in APIs, Integration & API Management

Provide MuleSoft advisory services to help customers in achieving their business & IT goals by creating API and Industry specific solutions.

Serve as a strategic advisor to customers, driving enterprise discussions to enable their digital transformation journey using MuleSoft platform.

Develop integration maturity paths for customers by providing guidance around common patterns, governance, shared infrastructure, technical leadership and other best practices.

Define and establish Centers for Enablement (C4E) for customers

Provide API architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps in enterprise integration domain with focus on MuleSoft, APIGee, MDM tools and other Integration platforms.

Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.

Develop and provide quality review of Proposals and Statements of Work

Facilitate pre-sales discussions with the client

Participate in the overall leadership of the business unit and support the goals of the business unit and Perficient overall

Participate in collaborative business unit strategy / planning and the implementation of key aspects of the business unit’s plans

Actively participate in in EPAM marketing events which may include public speaking events at conferences, webinars, etc.

Work closely with application solution architects to maintain and ensure best practice paradigms and provide solution recommendations as appropriate

Partner with the shared services team to build self-service integration and DevOps capabilities.

Participate and work with corporate wide technical committees to influence technology direction, build consensus and architectural decisions.

Enforce Organizational standards for enhanced cross domain governance

Offer technology solutions through the use of the APIs to enable direct business service integration

Document the existing legacy services, define, transform and enforce REST API best practices

Assess and determine governance, stewardship and frameworks for managing APIs across the enterprise.

Ability to go-in depth on the technology stack, across different technologies to understand the end to end integration hooks and system interfaces.

Own and drive the API strategy across the various lines of businesses

Partner closely with product and development teams to craft great digital experiences.

Assess the existing service capabilities and actively participate in code reviews to attain the highest quality service standards

Provide architectural leadership to product and development teams to follow best practices

Develop and maintain strong working relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders across divisions to maximize program effectiveness and influence.

Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.

Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science

15+ years of work experience in technology

5+ years as an API Architect with focus on diverse API management platforms

Hands- on experience with architecting API based solutions using API Management platforms such as Apigee, Mule soft, IBM API Connect

Strong experience with Web Services, Micro services and Asynchronous messaging

Demonstrated skills to influence without authority and stakeholder management

Knowledge of object oriented design and design patterns, and programming skills

Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API management platforms, Portals and Micro-services architecture.

Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices.

Experience with SOAP, REST web services, integration technologies like ESB

Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API security standards and implementation (oAuth, OpenID Connect)

Expert-level knowledge and experience applying current and emerging technology integration solutions and trends

Ability to travel up to 10%

API Management

Apigee

Mule ESB

Mulesoft

IBM API Connect

Web Services

Microservices

Asynchronous Messaging