Senior API Platform Solutions Design Engineer

Job Description

What will you do?

Reporting to the Director, API Platform Adoption, the Solution Design Engineer is responsible for designing, development, deployment and implementation of existing change data capture solution (CDC) to ensure real-time data replication, designing and implementing automation features, consulting with business delivery teams, and contributing to the design of delivery solutions.

The role works very closely with the Enterprise Architects (across domains and platforms), platform Engineers, enterprise event hub engineers, operations team and the governance Team. A key function of this role involves establishing and maintaining strong relationships with global business delivery teams.

The responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following :

• Lead the design, development, deployment and rollout of enhancements on the API Platform, both in the cloud and on premise.
• Participate in the design of delivery solutions, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Design and implement automation features to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Responsible for consultation around API standards and best practices with business delivery teams, key among them best practices around REST API’s.
• Leverage the construction, maintenance and continuous improvement of core infrastructure that underlies platform development including a gateway / service-mesh, runtimes, security, logging, exception handling.
• Utilizing CI / CD Pipeline for API platform enhancements.
• Proactively identifying defects in the platform modules, debugging issues being faced and provide effective solutions to resolve the same.
• Participate in designing, running and interpreting performance and load-testing processes and implementing required optimizations.
• Mentor and coach team members to bring them up to speed on build and deployment best practices.
• Ensure projects are following best practices around continuous integration and delivery.
• Work closely with the business and technology partners to ensure effective implementation of new technologies that support API Governance and standardization across Sun life.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for the CDC solution, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides and troubleshooting steps.
• Continuously identify and implement enhancements to improve the scalability and performance of the CDC solution.

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