Job Description
Description:
Role:API designer
Location: Knutsford (Hybrid)
Duration: End of July 2025
Description:
Accountable for delivering effective solution designs within the Open Banking COE taking the lead on the solution design from an API design and API Security perspective
Design end-to-end API solutions to meet business needs within the context of a broader solution implementation
Contributor to overall solution planning, providing input into the estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks, issues, and assumptions
Define and derive best practices in the API space, adopting industry best practices and highlighting areas of improvements
Produce required design artefacts, independently or as part of a team
Engage with key stakeholders in workshops to get desired outcome
Present to the Customer's Architecture Review Board when necessary
Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction
Review the designs and code produced by the technical teams to ensure alignment with the overall solution design
Support the delivery lead, to break down the solution so that it can be delivered iteratively in sprints
Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose