API Team Lead

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API Team Lead

Location: London

Travel: Some UK Travel Required

Salary: Up to £56,300 depending on skills and experience plus excellent benefits package

Job Reference: 00434246

Introduction:

Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

The digital revolution is changing everything. It’s everywhere - transforming how we work and play. Are you reacting to the disruption each day or are you leading the way as a digital disrupter? Accenture Digital is driving these exciting changes and bringing them to life across 40 industries in more than 120 countries. At the forefront of digital, you’ll create it, own it and make it a reality for clients looking to better serve their connected customers and operate always-on enterprises. Join us and become an integral part of our experienced digital team with the credibility, expertise and insight clients depend on.

We require a senior API Delivery Team Lead. The successful applicant will have extensive hands on development and technical leadership experience, delivering API services using products such as Apigee, Akana, MuleSoft, WSO2 or SOA services with products from Oracle, IBM or Tibco.

What responsibilities will you have?

Assemble and setup agile API development teams

Technical leadership to a development team delivering API services

Take ownership of deliveries, timelines and quality of APIs

Define best practices and guidelines for API development

Assist in scope definition, planning, estimation and tracking

Work closely with a variety of stakeholders - the business, API consumers, platform and solution architects, back-end stakeholders, QA etc.

Qualifications

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Proven track record leading successful development teams

Expertise with API exposure platforms - either Apigee, Akana, MuleSoft or WSO2. Candidates with extensive SOA Team Lead experience may also be considered.

Familiarity with Swagger or RAML

Extensive development experience with Java and JavaScript

Deep understanding of SOAP, and familiarity with WSDL, WADL, XML

Deep understanding of RESTful services, HTTP, JSON, Ajax and familiarity with RAML

Detailed understanding of modern identity standards - OAuth, OpenID Connect, Mobile Connect

Familiarity with application servers with at least one of WebSphere, JBoss, Glassfish or node.js, including setup, security, deployment

Some familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks - Angular.js, React.js or Embed.js

Familiarity with development tools such as Maven, Git, Gerrit, Jira, Jenkins, Sonar

Experience assembling, setting up and running Agile teams

Must be an excellent communicator, and capable of working independently in complex and challenging environments

Experience with SOA/ESB platforms from Oracle, IBM or Tibco

What’s in it for you?

All of our Digital professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialisation. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialised skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with others. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

On top of this, we have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, gym subsidies, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

What are the next steps?

If this sounds like the ideal role, career and company for you, click below to apply.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions"underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network"Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 30/01/2017

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.