Responsibilities
Kforce has a client in Irving, TX that is seeking an API Architect. Responsibilities:
- Implement and deploy API solutions while demonstrating expertise in a number of areas including cloud computing, API design and development, Public and Private API design and development, cloud messaging, ground-to-cloud connectivity, highly scalable distributed systems
- Supports projects and design recommendations that span the entire infrastructure
- Contributes to creating strategy and evolvable systems, including guidelines, standards, and policies
- Collaborates with business leaders to help define business strategy and align creative information technology systems architecture to support the strategy; This requires a high degree of interaction with business and operations units to understand the functional needs of the system users as well as the various technology teams, both within and outside of the company
- Perform IT resiliency experiments by injecting failures into distributed system to improve the systems resiliency
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience
- Experience in service management in Google Cloud Platform and exposure to GCP, AWS or Azure
- Proficiency in web service design using RAML, YAML (with JSON) and ODATA
- Experience in building common services framework for logging, error handling, auditing, policy management, authentication, and authorization
- Experience in building microservices using Springboot, GraphQL, Camel, etc.
- Good understanding of Microservice architecture with experience of server administration and physical deployment (On Cloud, On Premise and Hybrid)
- Experience in integration Databases (Cassandra and RDBMS) and Streaming platforms (Kafka)
- Experience in source control management using GIT
- Experience in Continuous integration and Continuous deployment using Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and Springboot
- Experience in other programming languages like python, scala, etc.
- Experience in integration with logging and monitoring tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
- UI experience is an added advantage
- Must have skills: Sprint Boot, Java, CICD
- Nice to have skills: Kafka, Python, Scala, Spark, Cloud
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.