Description
Devoteam is seeking an API Architect to join their multidisciplinary team of Cloud experts, Designers, Business consultants, Security experts, Engineers, Developers and other extraordinary talents. The successful candidate will be responsible for potentiating an API-first design approach, designing APIs, and producing respective YAML or equivalent formats, creating consistency across the API portfolio. They will also define API specifications, features, and Data Model/Data Entities, set best practices, standards, security setup, metrics, rate limiting, error handling, and versioning for API use. The role involves training other team members for API mentality and guidelines, defining clear functional requirements, and choosing API architectural styles and data formats. The API Architect will define base URLs, service endpoints, and API Products, identify required data elements for the design, and present status codes for various failure scenarios. The role requires expert knowledge of modern architectural patterns, deep understanding of API communication techniques, proficiency in core data and messaging formats, experience defining design standards and utilizing formal API specification formats, and a proven ability to create and maintain high-quality API documentation and specifications.
