Job Description

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Role/ Job Title: Production Engineering Lead - API

Business: Corporate Functions

Function/ Department: Information Technology

Place of Work: Mumbai

Roles & Responsibilities:

\'- Provide production engineering support for all domains using APIs
- Drive the stability, continuity and resilience of the entire program
- Ensure integration of platform application with all required systems and services and provide clean, easy to use API for the frontend part of the system
- Technically strong and can think \'digital\'
- Provide systems input to planning and solutioning (e.g., total effort, changes required to applications, solution architecture)
- Present solutions/development and obtain approval at various technology architecture, change control governance/council reviews
- Coordinate technical design and development activities between developers, other technical delivery managers and system analyst
- Strengthen processes focussing on operational excellence and high quality development, delivery and testing of solutions
- Ensure preparation of all delivery, BTO handover and knowledge base documents
- Coordinate with and manage vendors (along with providing requisite invoice approvals, governing SLAs) to ensure improved product quality
- Experience with large-scale complex system integration implementations
- Define projects plans and initiate, oversee and terminate complex projects; Manage the scope of the project incl. change management
- Coordinate all technical design and development activities for the solutions
- Ensure systems integrated testing to ensure sound functional capability of the systems
- Strong in API design and best practices
- Responsible for staff motivation. KRA, Appraisals

Secondary Responsibilities :

\'Subject Matter Experts in one or more of these domains: SOA, API-first architecture, Mobile Backend, API Security, Mobility Security, API Analytics, API design, REST design, Agile and DevOps practices

Managerial & Leadership Responsibilities :

\'People Management (staff motivation, objective setting, appraisals, mentoring)

Key Success Metrics:

\'Platform Uptime

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