Vp - Api Engineering Lead (Hybrid)

**Responsibilities**:
**Development and Design**
- Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the pre-planning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.
- Publish design review extensions, and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.
- Ensure extensibility, supportability, performance & scalability Digital platform by exposing platform functionality via the REST API & associated API management Platform
- Ensure reliability, security, availability and operational visibility into the API platform.
- Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities
- Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and at the same time share best practices across the organization.
- Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.
- Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE’s based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform
- Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
- Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews
- Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.
- Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.
- Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions
- Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices, using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.

**Delivery**
- Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching
- Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements
- Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined.
- Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver expected results. Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions that balance efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
- Elaborate, bring and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD and Design Patterns adoption.
- Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.
- Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology. Demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.
- Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.
- Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers. Decisions will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization. During team discussions you will play a significant role with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.

**Qualifications**:

- Hands on design & development of the REST API along with technical lead role on full development cycle for API including leading code/design reviews & architectural choices
- Hands on technical leadership of software engineers focused on API enablement technical architecture, design, development and delivery
- Strong experience in Java based REST API development with good technical skillset in Spring, SpringBoot, Caching Service as (Redis, Hazelcast ) Event Driven Messaging services(KAFKA, Solace)
- Lead resources and serve as a functional SME across the company through advanced knowledge of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, networking, use of knowledge and experience to lead, architect, and drive broader adoption forward.
- Prior experience in industrializing APIs by enabling security, usage tracking, operational visibility/reporting, implementing QoS/SLAs, high availability etc. is required.
- Acquire relevant technology and financial industry skills (AWS PWS) and understa