Job Details

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related technical field or equivalent work experience
• Practical experience and knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, Microservice Architecture, Microservices, and API Gateways, with at least one of the following technologies: MuleSoft, Apigee Edge, AWS API Gateway, Kong and NGINX.
• Proven experience in working collaboratively, coordinating among cross‑functional teams and the ability to effectively work with organizational differences and priorities; consistently provide a clear and consistent technical vision to advance project goals
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) and analytical skills; strong and demonstrated interpersonal skills to include influence, negotiation, collaboration and diplomacy
• Expert in architectural visualizations
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI / CD practices

Preferred Skills

• Strong understanding of IDP's and Active Directory
• Demonstrated ability to integrate various security & data protection technologies and controls into a cohesive architecture that sufficiently mitigates risk to the enterprise
• Deep technical understanding of and experience with security technologies including, but not limited to, intrusion detection / prevention, event correlation, firewall, antivirus, anti‑spam, policy enforcement, patch / configuration management, audit, secure application development, etc.
• Thorough understanding of the security controls provided in common platforms and applications including, but not limited to: Unix, Linux, Windows, IBM Mainframe (zTPF, MVS), Oracle, MS SQL Server, Microsoft Outlook, J2EE and .NET applications, etc.
• Familiarity with hosted and cloud services and the related security implications and control approaches
• Experience with applicable control frameworks and compliance mandates

Responsibilities

• Work with LOBs to enable, architect, implement, and support APIs
• Define reusable solution patterns and review with architectural review boards
• Work with LOBs to implement data and application security best practices
• Help install, configure, and support Mulesoft, AWS API Gateway
• Implement auth and authz mechanisms (e.g., OAuth, JWT, API keys) and enforce optimal security policies
• Establish guidelines for API versioning, security and standardization
• Be a key player and contribute to system initiatives to help bring about the cultural and organizational change needed for the inception of an FRS Microservices Exchange (enterprise asset reuse and interoperability)
• Assist in the evaluation of overall risk for IT systems and the data they contain and process, accounting for the people, processes, and technologies that provide security controls
• Maintain an expert knowledge in the field of Information Security and the related issues, systems, processes, products, and services to extend the organization's ability to optimize use of emerging technologies
• Building strong cross‑organizational relationships and effectively influencing staff across the IT organization and broader FRS
• Evaluate and assess risk as part of the life‑cycle analysis
• Create and maintain enterprise security standards applicable to all technologies in the group portfolio
• Management of customer satisfaction, best practices and benchmarking

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Industries

Banking