Principal Microservices and API System Architect

Job description

·  Job facts

Responsibilities:

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Work with customers and architects to implement API platform to solve business challenges.

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Lead and oversee ideation, requirements gathering and design phases of the development lifecycle.

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Play consultant role to delivery teams during development, testing, deployment, transition, and support phases.

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Mentor and coach other data & integration team members to help grow API and microservices knowledge within the organization.

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Provide leadership and technical expertise to the US commercial, medical and government affairs teams within US IX.

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Work with business partners to co-create the organization's technology roadmap.

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On behalf of a global biotechnology company, analyze business needs and develop comprehensive Enterprise Technical Architecture (ETA) to support major business activities.

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Partner with IT and business stakeholders to understand requirements, develop strategies to meetarchitecture/technologyneeds and improve organizational performance, and present recommendations to stakeholders.

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Research new and emerging technologies, processes, methodologies and practices, and evaluate the potential value of technology for use within an organization.

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Analyze enterprise trends, business goals, and economic viability, and define principles to guide technology decisions for the API and Microservice architecture for the assigned business area.

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Provide consultation to technical onsite and offshore as needed to complete deliverables, and to ensure ETA compliance.

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Evangelize the API led, pub-sub approach and ensure re-usability across various projects.

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Own the catalog of all API's, Interfaces and jobs in the Integration space and ensure a high level of re-usability.

The ideal candidate:

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Nurtures and develops a collaborative, consultative and value-driven partnership.

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Exhibits a high degree of self-awareness, empathy, listening, active curiosity, awareness of different norms and expectations.

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Exhibits an Agile mindset in the approach to work.

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Good enough instead of perfection.

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Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity and has a strong passion to bring value-adding technology to the business.

Qualifications and Experience:

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Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science.

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12+ years of relevant IT work experience.

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A minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience architecting and delivering solutions related to enterprise integration, APIs, service-oriented architecture, and technology modernizations.

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5+ years of experience with Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure & GCP.

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Solid understanding of NoSQL database modeling and design.

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5+ years of software development experience.

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Occasional speaker at conferences on either technology or leadership.

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Experience in designing API based architectures in platforms like Mulesoft.

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A minimum of 3-year hands-on experience with the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (on-premise or CloudHub, but prefer exposure to both).

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Knowledge and understanding of Application and Software Design Patterns.

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Experience building REST and SOAP web services using Java.

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Deep understanding of microservices-based architectures.

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Good DevOps expertise.

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Architect not only the long-term state but also the path to get there, accounting for near-term product deliverables, technical debt, and the maturity and likely evolution of relevant technologies.

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Experience with Salesforce - Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Platform, Communities, etc.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
Information Technology, Information Technology > IT Architecture

·  Who we are

A member of the Roche Group, Genentech has been at the forefront of the biotechnology industry for more than 40 years, using human genetic information to develop novel medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases. Genentech has multiple therapies on the market for cancer & other serious illnesses. Please take this opportunity to learn about Genentech where we believe that our employees are our most important asset & are dedicated to remaining a great place to work.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual's race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.