Technical Lead

3 weeks ago

United Kingdom Mastek Full time

About the job

Mastek is a global Turnkey Digital Engineering & Cloud Transformation specialist delivering innovative solutions and business outcomes for its clients for more than 41 years. With more than 5000 employees across 40+ countries, we empower businesses across industries such as Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services, and Government/Public sectors to enable customer success and digitization programs. We partner with enterprises to unlock their power of data, modernize applications to the cloud, and accelerate digital advantage for all stakeholders.

API Technical Lead – (Work Location – London, United Kingdom

Detailed Job Description:

Scope of Services :-

As the API Technical Lead, you will spearhead the technology division, driving the development and execution of the API and event-driven architecture (EDA) strategy and capabilities. Your responsibilities include overseeing the design, architecture, and maintenance of our platform, setting API and event design standards, managing the developer portal, and ensuring compliance across Technology teams for building and deploying APIs.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Lead and mentor API and event-driven architecture development across diverse teams of software engineering professionals
  • Design and architect advanced API solutions, encouraging continuous improvement.
  • Design and architect loosely coupled event-driven asynchronous solutions.
  • Engage in extensive internal and external stakeholder management, aligning with business priorities.
  • Oversee the setup and maintenance of scalable, highly available, and resilient platforms.
  • Create capabilities enabling the federated development of APIs to standards and design patterns.
  • Implement and uphold standard practices, design patterns, and strategies across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of API development programs, including CI/CD and the role of Contract testing (Stoplight Spectral linting to check conformity to OpenAPI standards).
  • Deep understanding of API architecture, development frameworks, and technology stacks.
  • Deep understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging patterns, testing strategies and technology stacks.
  • Contribute to drawing up specific technical proposals for a modified or replacement system.
  • Work closely with the Lead Developer, Technical Architects (TA), and other developers to build or enhance systems.
  • Delivering operational delivery automation and continuous improvement in conjunction with DevOps suppliers and IT Operations.
  • Delivering operational monitoring of components through integrated solutions
  • Working in other technologies used at EBRD beyond your core disciplines as required by strategic and project demands.
  • Maintain and improve your own skillset to ensure it stays relevant to the current market and industry trends.
  • Mentor and develop other developers in your team whether staff, contract or externally supplied.
  • A diligent and conscientious approach to completing work on time and to an agreed, acceptable level of quality is required.
  • Specific responsibility to set up and oversee a community of practice to cover the Front End (UI) application development capabilities across the EBRD Monarch Eco-System.
  • Represent EBRD IT in stakeholder engagement or show case events to promote the benefits of having a Community of Practice and demonstrating these through examples of good practice.
  • Scope of services successfully transitioned to third party provider and knowledge transfer complete.

Experience : -

  • Proven experience in leading software engineering teams, preferably in API and EDA development and management.
  • Strong technical background in API and EDA architecture, cloud technologies (Azure preferred), messaging technologies, and digital transformation.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with ability to align various interests and requirements.
  • In-depth knowledge of SDLC, API strategies, and governance practices.
  • Experience in Financial services preferred but not essential.

Essential :-

  • Java
  • RESTful web services
  • JMS Messaging
  • JSON, XML
  • Ability to lead on discussion regarding API platform standards.
  • Ability to lead on discussion regarding Event Driven Architecture standards.
  • Micro services architecture
  • Experience of developing component designs and specification

Technical and interpersonal skills :-

  • Strong skills: The Lead should be able to write clean, efficient, and well-tested API deployment standards.
  • Proven abilities to evangelize development standards and shape communities of practice.
  • Leadership and communication skills: The Lead should be able to effectively communicate with the team and fellow developers.
  • Collaboration skills: The Lead should be able to collaborate effectively with other team members, such as front-end developers, back-end developers, and designers.

Desirable :-

  • Azure DevOps & Azure Applications Insights (incl. Open Telemetry)
  • Azure API Management
  • Spring Boot
  • NodeJS
  • Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana IntelliJ
  • Lighthouse/New Relic (perf tools)
  • Testing frameworks - Selenium, SwaggerHub, Stoplight Spectral linting,
  • Messaging technologies: TIBCO EMS, Azure Message Bus, Kafka and similar.
  • Experience of software development in a financially regulated business Banking or Insurance
  • Experience with DevOps: Experience with DevOps practices can help the Lead to ensure that applications are deployed and maintained efficiently.
  • Experience with cloud computing: Experience with cloud computing can help the Lead to choose the right platform for team's needs and to deploy and manage applications effectively in the cloud.

Track Record :-

  • Working on Agile software delivery teams, following an iterative approach to deliver working software.
  • Working collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals.
  • Helping the team to always strive to succeed and continuously improve.
  • Managing time effectively to deliver working software, of acceptable quality, at a regular cadence.
  • Adapting to change and challenging the team to deliver the best results possible.
  • Working closely with the customer with focus on business value is first and foremost.
  • Clear communication in both written and verbal form
  • Being dynamic and self-motivated
  • Handling complex and fluid situations in a measured and collaborative way
  • Being persistent and resilient
  • Achieving set objectives
  • Working in a diverse environment
  • Listening

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