Domain Architect - Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Job Summary

Job Summary : What You\'ll Do: • Architectural Strategy: Accountable for all architectural decisions within the API Lab\'s Marketplace platform, leading and mentoring a small team of architects. • Strategic Roadmaps & Delivery: Guide, challenge, and support product and engineering teams in developing and delivering robust and future-proof strategic roadmaps for the Marketplace. • Business & Technology Alignment: Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring solution delivery aligns perfectly with business needs and priorities for the Marketplace. • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and nurture trusted relationships across platforms, functions, and third-party vendors. • Solution Shaping & Innovation: Leverage your insights to shape innovative business propositions, influence vendor products, and foster strategic industry partnerships to enhance our Marketplace offering. • Technical Leadership: Drive architectural outcomes for a mid to large organization, actively participating in and influencing architectural forums and design reviews. • Cloud Architecture Leadership (GCP Focus): Lead the design and share implementation plan of cloud-native and hybrid cloud solutions, with a strong emphasis on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and its associated resources. While Azure experience is a plus, a deep understanding of GCP concepts and best practices is essential. You will clearly explain complex cloud concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate their adoption. • Modern API Strategy: Champion and implement robust REST API design principles and best practices for the Marketplace and broader API ecosystem, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant integrations. • Emerging Technologies: Maintain a keen awareness of emerging technologies, including GenAI, understanding their maturity, potential business applications, and alignment with our long-term strategy for the Marketplace. • Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Foster a culture of continuous improvement and drive innovation within your domain and across the API Lab. • Non-Functional Excellence: Design systems with a strong appreciation for non functional considerations (e.g., performance, scalability, security, resilience, sustainability) relevant to established, complex organizations with large customer bases. What You\'ll Need: • Extensive Solution Architecture Experience: Proven breadth of experience in solution architecture, specifically within an API-first environment or digital platform context, with a focus on Marketplace platforms or similar multi-tenant systems. • GCP Cloud Expertise (Essential): Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its associated services (e.g., Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Apigee). Experience with Azure or AWS is desirable but GCP is paramount. You can clearly articulate cloud concepts and guide implementation. • REST API Mastery (Essential): Strong expertise in designing, developing, and managing RESTful APIs, including API security, versioning, documentation (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger), and API gateway solutions (e.g., Apigee).Extensive experience designing, developing, governing, and scaling enterprise API ecosystems. Strong expertise in RESTful API architecture, API security, authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS), API versioning, lifecycle management, developer portals, API products, subscription management, API analytics, Smart Docs, sandbox environments, certificate management, and API gateway architectures. . API Management Platform Experience (Essential): Proven experience architecting and implementing enterprise API management solutions using leading platforms such as

Key Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities : What You\'ll Do: • Architectural Strategy: Accountable for all architectural decisions within the API Lab\'s Marketplace platform, leading and mentoring a small team of architects. • Strategic Roadmaps & Delivery: Guide, challenge, and support product and engineering teams in developing and delivering robust and future-proof strategic roadmaps for the Marketplace. • Business & Technology Alignment: Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring solution delivery aligns perfectly with business needs and priorities for the Marketplace. • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and nurture trusted relationships across platforms, functions, and third-party vendors. • Solution Shaping & Innovation: Leverage your insights to shape innovative business propositions, influence vendor products, and foster strategic industry partnerships to enhance our Marketplace offering. • Technical Leadership: Drive architectural outcomes for a mid to large organization, actively participating in and influencing architectural forums and design reviews. • Cloud Architecture Leadership (GCP Focus): Lead the design and share implementation plan of cloud-native and hybrid cloud solutions, with a strong emphasis on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and its associated resources. While Azure experience is a plus, a deep understanding of GCP concepts and best practices is essential. You will clearly explain complex cloud concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate their adoption. • Modern API Strategy: Champion and implement robust REST API design principles and best practices for the Marketplace and broader API ecosystem, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant integrations. • Emerging Technologies: Maintain a keen awareness of emerging technologies, including GenAI, understanding their maturity, potential business applications, and alignment with our long-term strategy for the Marketplace. • Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Foster a culture of continuous improvement and drive innovation within your domain and across the API Lab. • Non-Functional Excellence: Design systems with a strong appreciation for non functional considerations (e.g., performance, scalability, security, resilience, sustainability) relevant to established, complex organizations with large customer bases. What You\'ll Need: • Extensive Solution Architecture Experience: Proven breadth of experience in solution architecture, specifically within an API-first environment or digital platform context, with a focus on Marketplace platforms or similar multi-tenant systems. • GCP Cloud Expertise (Essential): Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its associated services (e.g., Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Apigee). Experience with Azure or AWS is desirable but GCP is paramount. You can clearly articulate cloud concepts and guide implementation. • REST API Mastery (Essential): Strong expertise in designing, developing, and managing RESTful APIs, including API security, versioning, documentation (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger), and API gateway solutions (e.g., Apigee).Extensive experience designing, developing, governing, and scaling enterprise API ecosystems. Strong expertise in RESTful API architecture, API security, authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS), API versioning, lifecycle management, developer portals, API products, subscription management, API analytics, Smart Docs, sandbox environments, certificate management, and API gateway architectures. . API Management Platform Experience (Essential): Proven experience architecting and implementing enterprise API management solutions using

Skill Requirements

Skill Requirement : What You\'ll Do: • Architectural Strategy: Accountable for all architectural decisions within the API Lab\'s Marketplace platform, leading and mentoring a small team of architects. • Strategic Roadmaps & Delivery: Guide, challenge, and support product and engineering teams in developing and delivering robust and future-proof strategic roadmaps for the Marketplace. • Business & Technology Alignment: Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring solution delivery aligns perfectly with business needs and priorities for the Marketplace. • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and nurture trusted relationships across platforms, functions, and third-party vendors. • Solution Shaping & Innovation: Leverage your insights to shape innovative business propositions, influence vendor products, and foster strategic industry partnerships to enhance our Marketplace offering. • Technical Leadership: Drive architectural outcomes for a mid to large organization, actively participating in and influencing architectural forums and design reviews. • Cloud Architecture Leadership (GCP Focus): Lead the design and share implementation plan of cloud-native and hybrid cloud solutions, with a strong emphasis on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and its associated resources. While Azure experience is a plus, a deep understanding of GCP concepts and best practices is essential. You will clearly explain complex cloud concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate their adoption. • Modern API Strategy: Champion and implement robust REST API design principles and best practices for the Marketplace and broader API ecosystem, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant integrations. • Emerging Technologies: Maintain a keen awareness of emerging technologies, including GenAI, understanding their maturity, potential business applications, and alignment with our long-term strategy for the Marketplace. • Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Foster a culture of continuous improvement and drive innovation within your domain and across the API Lab. • Non-Functional Excellence: Design systems with a strong appreciation for non functional considerations (e.g., performance, scalability, security, resilience, sustainability) relevant to established, complex organizations with large customer bases. What You\'ll Need: • Extensive Solution Architecture Experience: Proven breadth of experience in solution architecture, specifically within an API-first environment or digital platform context, with a focus on Marketplace platforms or similar multi-tenant systems. • GCP Cloud Expertise (Essential): Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its associated services (e.g., Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Apigee). Experience with Azure or AWS is desirable but GCP is paramount. You can clearly articulate cloud concepts and guide implementation. • REST API Mastery (Essential): Strong expertise in designing, developing, and managing RESTful APIs, including API security, versioning, documentation (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger), and API gateway solutions (e.g., Apigee).Extensive experience designing, developing, governing, and scaling enterprise API ecosystems. Strong expertise in RESTful API architecture, API security, authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS), API versioning, lifecycle management, developer portals, API products, subscription management, API analytics, Smart Docs, sandbox environments, certificate management, and API gateway architectures. . API Management Platform Experience (Essential): Proven experience architecting and implementing enterprise API management solutions using leading

Other Requirements

Other Requirement : What You\'ll Do: • Architectural Strategy: Accountable for all architectural decisions within the API Lab\'s Marketplace platform, leading and mentoring a small team of architects. • Strategic Roadmaps & Delivery: Guide, challenge, and support product and engineering teams in developing and delivering robust and future-proof strategic roadmaps for the Marketplace. • Business & Technology Alignment: Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring solution delivery aligns perfectly with business needs and priorities for the Marketplace. • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and nurture trusted relationships across platforms, functions, and third-party vendors. • Solution Shaping & Innovation: Leverage your insights to shape innovative business propositions, influence vendor products, and foster strategic industry partnerships to enhance our Marketplace offering. • Technical Leadership: Drive architectural outcomes for a mid to large organization, actively participating in and influencing architectural forums and design reviews. • Cloud Architecture Leadership (GCP Focus): Lead the design and share implementation plan of cloud-native and hybrid cloud solutions, with a strong emphasis on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and its associated resources. While Azure experience is a plus, a deep understanding of GCP concepts and best practices is essential. You will clearly explain complex cloud concepts to diverse audiences and facilitate their adoption. • Modern API Strategy: Champion and implement robust REST API design principles and best practices for the Marketplace and broader API ecosystem, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant integrations. • Emerging Technologies: Maintain a keen awareness of emerging technologies, including GenAI, understanding their maturity, potential business applications, and alignment with our long-term strategy for the Marketplace. • Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Foster a culture of continuous improvement and drive innovation within your domain and across the API Lab. • Non-Functional Excellence: Design systems with a strong appreciation for non functional considerations (e.g., performance, scalability, security, resilience, sustainability) relevant to established, complex organizations with large customer bases. What You\'ll Need: • Extensive Solution Architecture Experience: Proven breadth of experience in solution architecture, specifically within an API-first environment or digital platform context, with a focus on Marketplace platforms or similar multi-tenant systems. • GCP Cloud Expertise (Essential): Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its associated services (e.g., Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Apigee). Experience with Azure or AWS is desirable but GCP is paramount. You can clearly articulate cloud concepts and guide implementation. • REST API Mastery (Essential): Strong expertise in designing, developing, and managing RESTful APIs, including API security, versioning, documentation (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger), and API gateway solutions (e.g., Apigee).Extensive experience designing, developing, governing, and scaling enterprise API ecosystems. Strong expertise in RESTful API architecture, API security, authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS), API versioning, lifecycle management, developer portals, API products, subscription management, API analytics, Smart Docs, sandbox environments, certificate management, and API gateway architectures. . API Management Platform Experience (Essential): Proven experience architecting and implementing enterprise API management solutions using leading

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