Integration Architect (API)

About the team: You will be joining the Logistics Enterprise Platforms (Code Connect and Event Broker) team in our Enterprise Architecture organization. What you will be doing: Logistics platform supporting our API and Event integration capabilities. VNG is making significant investments in this area to establish VNG as a leader in OpenAPIs, ultimately enabling the logistics platform to provide the best products and overall customer experience. You will be working closely with both development and product teams regarding the architecture of the platform and providing API model support and oversight

General Duties and Responsibilities • Develop modern API architecture which supports product requirements, including performance, scalability, security, and manageability • Establish, evolve, and defend common standards, patterns, and practices for APIs • Leads the Technical Design Authority, whose goal is to ensure all APIs adhere to the latest API standards and drive API design consistency • Collaborate with diverse technical delivery teams to build modern service-based architecture to scale and innovate • Sustain the ongoing transformation to a Continuous Deployment model through high-level of automation • Proactively learns new technologies, standards, and applications; keeps current with technology developments within the industry What you bring: • Modern API architectures using domain driven design, OpenAPIs, Microservices, and Event driven models • Understanding of JAVA and C# and related frameworks dot Net, Spring… • Design and build user-centric API ecosystems to drive new consumer experiences and unlock business capabilities • Experience with API lifecycle management, API layering techniques (experience, process, system APIs), API orchestrations, Data Mapping, and the corresponding technologies • Experience applying modern REST constructs, JSON while designing API interface design • API design patterns for authentication, authorization, mediation, transformation, and data security • Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices such as events, synchronous vs. asynchronous messaging, peer-to-peer, Publishsubscribe, etc. • Microservices topologies, including operational concerns such as resiliency, observability, discovery and routing, etc. • Articulate trade-offs and drive high-impact technology decisions on emerging technology choices like API gateways, Microgateways, Service Mesh, and commercial vs. open-source software • Have experience with and understand how to lead legacy integration and remediation (facades, strangler approaches, et. al.) • Ability to present and defend architecture, design, and technique choices to internal and external audiences Added bonus if you have: • Hands-on API development integration using API Management solutions like WSO2 • Experience with Cloud/Container technologies from OpenShift, Azure, AWS or GCP • Experience with the Logistics industry domain