Senior Api Architect - City of London, United Kingdom - Absolute Recruit

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City of London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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  • Senior API Architect
- £100,000 - £110, %

  • London / Hybrid (~2 days pe

This is a senior role within the business and will involve working alongside senior business and industry stakeholder groups, including the Technical Design Authority (TDA).

The business is ~100 employees at present, with plans to scale to ~250 in the next12-18 months as they continue their exceptional rate of growth.

The successful Senior API Architect will have the following attributes:

  • Commercial experience working as a Senior or Lead Architect in a recent role where you have designed and implemented API architecture.
  • Excellent knowledge of API technology, such as RESTful API's and Open API.
  • A strong understanding of the financial services, banking, payments or fintech space.
  • An understanding of Open Banking, Open Data, Open API's and ideally, open standards such as ISO2002
  • A strong understanding of payments, such as Bacs, Faster Payments, Card payments, CHAPS, etc.
  • An understanding of Java software development/architecture.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including recent experience collaborating with senior technical stakeholders.

They are utilising cutting-edge development tools and practices, looking to leverage AI and Open Banking/Open API platforms to modernise UK banking.

They are undergoing several exciting projects, including the in-sourcing of their software engineering, architectureand devops functions. The role would suit an experienced Senior API Architect or Lead API Architect.

The role is offering £100,000 - £110,000 as a base salary, a 20% bonus, a 12% total pension contribution, private medical, income protection, life assurance and dental.

They operate from their modern office in London and though they offer hybrid working, witha need to visit the office intermittently for workshops and on-site meetings (likely to be once every 2 weeks, with a possibility of there being more occasional visits in the initial months).


Key skills include:

Senior API Architect, Open API, Open Banking, ISO20022, Open Data, RESTful API, OAuth2, FAPI, JSON, Java, Docker, GitHub, API Documentation, Security Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Payments, Banking, Compliance, etc.

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