Enterprise API Architect

Company: MSCI Inc.
Location: Berkeley
Posted on: October 19, 2020

Job Description:

Your Team responsibilities
MSCI Inc. seeks a senior API Architect, with a proven experience in delivering API solutions. This Role is based in United States, with the primary responsibility to build out MSCIs API Management and Gateway component in the cloud. The selected candidate will be responsible for carving out the centralized Reference Architecture for 1MSCI APIs, work with teams across the world across different product lines as well as Shared Services. He/She will be tasked to provide strategic decision-making and guidance, within technical disciplines, responding to disruptive technologies and solving unique and complex problems. He/She will facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions, primarily in the areas of API Delivery.
Your key responsibilities
--- Establishes reference architecture for the organization's API service offerings, outlining each one and describing how they work through technical documentation.

--- Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation

--- Provide strategic decision-making and guidance within technical disciplines

--- Facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions in in the areas of 1MSCI API Architecture and delivery

--- Build robust APIs, message queues and file integration services

--- Apply the necessary and Optimum Security and Logging Standards across all APIs.

--- Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners.

--- Works with Program Management, business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions
Your skills and experience that will help you excel
--- Overall over 15+ years of experience in Technology Architecture and API driven software Design

--- Working experience with API lead architecture, including various data formats & protocols like JSON, SOAP, REST, XML, XSLT, HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP, FTP etc. Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OAUTH2)

--- Exposure to the various design patterns like Pub/Sub, Composite query, Scatter Gather, Aggregation etc.

--- Hands on experience in Microservices development and containerized workloads running on Kubernetes

--- Ability to negotiate cultural and technical conflict across teams, while keeping MSCI Business Goals and its Customers as paramount.

--- Problem Solving and ability to think clearly. Proven ability to design, build and release software with focus on Performance, Quality, Scale, Security, and Cost.

--- Experience in Cloud Security and Data Management is desirable.
About MSCI and our teams:
MSCI is a market leader in Global Indexes, Smart Beta, ESG and Risk Management, and is at the forefront of the secular trends dominating the financial services landscape today. We are committed to the future sustainability and transparency of the financial markets. We create innovative products and services that allow our clients to make more informed investment decisions, and we provide investors with critical performance measurement and risk management data and analytics. Click here to see what we do (link to MSCI brochure)

Our values define the working environment we strive to create. We are inclusive, we champion bold ideas, we always pursue excellence, and always act with integrity. Personal accountability and responsibility are key to success, and we always work as a team to remain client centric.

MSCI is committed to developing a culture and workforce that reflects the clients and communities in which we operate. Increasing our diversity expands our talent pool which helps to accelerate innovation in all we do. We especially encourage members of historically underrepresented groups to apply, including women, ethnic minorities and those in the LGBTQ community.

To all recruitment agencies: MSCI does not accept unsolicited CVs/Resumes. Please do not forward CVs/Resumes to any MSCI employee, location or website. MSCI is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs/Resumes.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected pregnancy/maternity leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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