Integration Architect

Pay Rate Range: $85 to $90/Hr
Must be a US Citizen/Green Card holder
Job Description:
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related technical field or equivalent work experience

• Practical experience and knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, Microservice Architecture, Microservices, and API Gateways, with at least one of the following technologies: MuleSoft, Apigee Edge, AWS API Gateway, Kong and NGINX.

• Proven experience in working collaboratively, coordinating among cross-functional teams and the ability to effectively work with organizational differences and priorities; consistently provide a clear and consistent technical vision to advance project goals

• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) and analytical skills; strong and demonstrated interpersonal skills to include influence, negotiation, collaboration and diplomacy

• Expert in architectural visualizations.

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or a Green Card holder with the intent to become a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Skills:

• Languages / protocols: - Experienced with HTML, JavaScript, SQL, LDAP, web services (SOAP, REST) , Java, Python, Terraform.

• Strong understanding of IDP's and Active Directory

• Demonstrated ability to integrate various security & data protection technologies and controls into a cohesive architecture that sufficiently mitigates risk to the enterprise.

• Deep technical understanding of and experience with security technologies including, but not limited to, intrusion detection/prevention, event correlation, firewall, antivirus, anti-spam, policy enforcement, patch/configuration management, audit, secure application development, etc.

• Thorough understanding of the security controls provided in common platforms and applications including, but not limited to: Unix, Linux, Windows, IBM Mainframe (zTPF, MVS), Oracle, MS SQL Server, Microsoft Outlook, J2EE and .NET applications, etc.

• Familiarity with hosted and cloud services and the related security implications and control approaches.

• Experience with applicable control frameworks and compliance mandates.

Responsibilities:

• Work with LOBs to enable, architect, implement, and support APIs.

• Define reusable solution patterns and review with architectural review boards.

• Work with LOBs to implement data and application security best practices.

• Help install, configure, and support mulesoft, AWS API Gateway.

• Implement auth and authz mechanisms (eg: OAuth, JWT, API keys). Enforce optimal security policies.

• Establish guidelines for API versioning, security and standardization.

• Be a key player and contribute to system initiatives to help bring about the cultural and organizational change needed for the inception of an FRS Microservices Exchange (enterprise asset reuse and interoperability)

• Assist in the evaluation of overall risk for IT systems and the data they contain and process, accounting for the people, processes, and technologies that provide security controls.

• Maintain an expert knowledge in the field of Information Security and the related issues, systems, processes, products, and services to extend the organizations ability to optimize use of emerging technologies.

• Building strong cross-organizational relationships and effectively influencing staff across the IT organization and broader FRS.

• Evaluate and assess risk as part of the life-cycle analysis.

• Create and maintain enterprise security standards applicable to all technologies in the group portfolio.

• Management of customer satisfaction, best practices and benchmarking.