Application Architect (API Development)

UMB Bank • Kansas City, MO

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our Enterprise Banking Integration – API Development team within our API Solutions organization provides enterprise service development and Tier 2 support. We work closely with our business partners in developing new APIs, enhancing existing ones, and building enterprise services for our different line of business. At UMB, we have over a century of experience, and we constantly push the boundaries using the latest technologies and processes to bring the best products to our customers and partners. As an Application Architect , you will spearhead development activities from the beginning of a project design phase to seeing it implemented into production. You will also work to design APIs, guide development teams, review code and give guidance to testing teams. This is a subset of the overall responsibilities which will include multiple initiatives as assigned by IT leadership. This role is hybrid (Mon through Thu on-site / Fri remote) at the UMB Technology & Operations Center located in downtown Kansas City, MO. How you’ll spend your time: Collaborate with business and technical teams to understand and influence current and future state strategies. Collaborate with the business and technical teams, create solutions that fulfill the business requirements incorporating UMB and industry strategies, patterns, standards and technologies, and then review solutions with stakeholders for alignment. Design and develop new APIs including enhancing existing APIs to meet business needs. Lead teams in the integration strategy and design at the project, domain and enterprise levels. Participate in the creation and maintenance of technology roadmaps and domain level portfolio diagrams. Document patterns for reuse across the enterprise. Mentor IT and Business teams on new technologies and patterns. Stay current with modern technology, patterns and trends.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of enterprise solutions and/or API architecture experience.
• Strong experience with C#/.NET back-end development, including MVC architecture, REST API development, and Entity framework
• Experience developing or supporting applications in AWS.
• Built swagger definition files and UML diagrams from requirements.
• Microservice Architecture implementation experience.
• In-depth API Modeling experience.
• Experience implementing APIs security patterns using JWT tokens, oAuth2.

Nice To Haves

• Any of the following preferred experience: IBM technologies including Datapower, IIB/ACE, APIC, ITX, MQ Kafka
• Experience using AI-Assisted development tools to accelerate development, documentation, or API scaffolding
• Using monitoring tools and configuring alerting
• Experience in configuring and designing APIs utilizing one of the API platforms such as AWS API gateway, IBM API connect, Google Apigee or MuleSoft’s Anypoint
• API testing tools such as Postman
• Security patterns
• Public cloud platforms and associated cloud services
• Event-driven architecture
• DevOps patterns and tooling
• Container management platforms and configuration
• Data modeling
• Network fundamentals
• Financial systems integration and/or implementation

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and technical teams to understand and influence current and future state strategies.
• Collaborate with the business and technical teams, create solutions that fulfill the business requirements incorporating UMB and industry strategies, patterns, standards and technologies, and then review solutions with stakeholders for alignment.
• Design and develop new APIs including enhancing existing APIs to meet business needs.
• Lead teams in the integration strategy and design at the project, domain and enterprise levels.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of technology roadmaps and domain level portfolio diagrams.
• Document patterns for reuse across the enterprise.
• Mentor IT and Business teams on new technologies and patterns.
• Stay current with modern technology, patterns and trends.

Benefits

• UMB offers competitive and varied benefits to eligible associates , such as Paid Time Off; a 401(k) matching program; annual incentive pay; paid holidays; a comprehensive company sponsored benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and other insurance coverage; health savings, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts; adoption assistance; an employee assistance program; fitness reimbursement; tuition reimbursement; an associate wellbeing program; an associate emergency fund; and various associate banking benefits. Benefit offerings and eligibility requirements vary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed