API Architect

Company Description

Alter Solutions Portugal is an IT Consultancy Company, promoter of Digital Transformation, part of the Alter Solutions Group, created in 2006, in Paris.

In 2022, Alter Solutions joined the act digital group, constituting a global community of talent in Technology, with presence in thirteen countries: Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Serbia. Also in 2023, we were certified as a Great Place to Work©.

In Portugal, we partner with over 120 clients and a team of over 500 people, working in projects for industries as diverse as banking, insurance, transportation, aviation, energy, and telecom.

Headquarters of the Nearshore IT center, Alter Solutions Portugal has a dedicated team of around 30 specialized professionals, integrated into projects with several internationally renowned clients.

Job Description

Reinforce our API Architect team in charge of the API Governance and supporting API Team building APIs in their API Lifecycle, to ensure value, consistency and security in order to deal with the additional workload associated with fast growing number of APIs and continue industrialize that process.

We are looking for candidates with:

• 1 year experience minimum in API Governance in a large organization, including industrialization;
• 2 year experience minimum in designing APIs using the OAS standard, in defining security requirements for APIs, and in using a leading API Management solution;
• 5 year experience minimum with APIs;
• Standards: OAS V3, OAS V3.1, Json Schema, OAuth2, OIDC, Oauth 2 mTLS (RFC8705), FAPI; and
• Experience with one leading API Design tools, linters, and Dev Portals.

Main Tasks

• Ensure API lifecycle according with Organizational Governance Model;
• Review API specifications against Organizational Guidelines;
• Assess API Security Model and Propose Actions and Requirements to Comply with Security Guidelines;
• Facilitate API Lifecycle among different projects;
• Industrialize API Lifecycle process.

Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Mature Architect mindset, being able to quickly understand the purpose of an API and able to drive the teams to meet the organizational requirements in terms of API Design/Management Best Practices, Security Model and Architecture Requirements.
• Experience with API Management Platform (WOS2, Apigee, others);
• Solid experience with OpenAPI v3 Specification, Swagger 2, WSDL;
• Comfortable with JSON, XML;
• Solid experience and knowledge about Authentication/Authorization Standards/Protocols and Encryption like OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS, FAPI, TLS/SSL;
• Experience using API Design Tools and Linters.

Language Skills:

• English (read, spoken, written) - Expert
• French (nice to have)

Soft Skills:

• Autonomous, organized and delivery-focused with attention to detail
• Proactive taking own initiative to mitigate risk, and prevent issues arising;
• Great communication skills
• Ability to create Vision in Others;
• Good work ethic and high levels of motivation
• Process and Results Oriented
• Multi-cultural and multi-location Experience
• Team Player

Additional Information

• This mission is to be performed in a hybrid working model, with two days per week at the office in Lisbon.
• The candidate should be able to commute to the office always when necessary.
• Candidates must be already located in Portugal mainland, Lisbon.