Solution Architect - 37694

Contract Duration: 6 months, possibility of extension

Location Address: Hybrid - 44 King Street W 9th Floor - 2 days/week minimum

Story Behind the Need

Business group: Chassis & Service Engineering - platform organization for API services for the Bank, involved in the development and maintenance of tools and platforms that streamline the software development lifecycle, particularly for cloud-native applications.

Project: - Cloud Acceleration Program - migration from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. - The candidate will collaborate closely with architects and Apigee/network/cloud engineers building the API gateway platform of the future at the bank, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.

Reason: Additional Workload

Candidate Value Proposition:

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in facilitating the transition from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. Has extensive experiences in implementing Apigee based API solutions, setting up CI/CD pipelines and establish API development processes including infrastructure-as-Code. The candidate will collaborate closely with architects and Apigee/network/cloud engineers building the API gateway platform of the future at the bank, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.

Typical Day in Role:

• Infrastructure readiness of the Google API Management Tool (APIGEE X)

• Migrate the Apigee Edge workloads to ApigeeX

• Collaborate closely with architects and Apigee/network/cloud engineers building the API gateway platform of the future at the bank

• Performs technical analysis, design, build and deployment of highly complex / scalable API Platform.

• Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines for Apigee Proxy deployments and testing.

• Develop, support, and troubleshoot proxy flows, templates, and security features.

• Facilitate automations in migrating Apigee Edge deployments to Apigee X.

• Collaborate with vendors, internal and external teams to accomplish project success.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 10+ years of relevant IT experience, with 5+ years as a Solutions Architect / Principal Engineer - with demonstrated experience creating logical architecture diagrams, with architecture review board sessions, and working with senior stakeholders

2) 3+ years’ experience with hands-on API development, stack migration and back-end service side development

3) Experience with Security, Access Controls (IAM/OAuth/SAML etc.), Network level controls (SSL, TLS etc.), Error handling

4) Experience building and deploying CI/CD pipelines for cloud workloads using tools like Jenkins, GitHub actions and infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

5) 3+ years’ experience with cloud architecture, components, and implementation use cases

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with development in Apigee based API solutions, ApigeeX

2) Experience with Enterprise Integration/Middleware Solutions

3) Experience with GCP

Education:

Bachelors in technical field

Any API products certifications an asset

Cloud certifications an asset

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Ideal candidate has strong API back-end development, API stack migration, Cloud experience, GCP a bonus. Has extensive experiences in developing Apigee based API solutions, setting up CI/CD pipelines and IaC, and establish API development processes. Need someone who is a strategic thinker, can make decisions and lead on those with confidence.

Candidate Review & Selection

2 rounds - MS Teams Video Interviews

1st technical panel with architect and lead - 1 hour - technical questions

2nd with HM - 1 hour