114249 System Architect x3

Systems Architect +Fully remote working +Inisde IR35 +£600 - £700 a day +3 months + Skills: +System Architect +API design +API Testing +Cloud - AWS / Azure As a System Architect in a Scaled Agile environment, you will responsible for defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural design to ensure the system under development is fit for its intended purpose. You will be part of the delivery team and will be responsible for understanding business processes and requirements, determining the primary solution components and subsystems, identifying the interfaces and collaborations between them, as well as existing system behaviours to produce high quality designs and technical stories that can be estimated, built and tested. Working with Product Managers, Delivery Leads, Solution Architects, Business SMEs and Senior Stakeholders, you will play a key role in ensuring that the system meets its requirements, delivers business value and can be delivered efficiently. Responsibilities Work with Business Analysts and Solution Architects to gather and analyse business requirements for API development. Translate business requirements into technical specifications for APIs, including functional requirements, data models, security, and performance characteristics. Analysing, understanding, and documenting existing system behaviour, including data mapping to support integration design as well as identification of system features and data requirements. Create and manage API documentation, such as API design specifications, contracts between subsystems, user guides, and API reference manuals. Write high quality, testable technical user stories to ensure that these can be estimated, delivered by developers, and used to define test automation. Work closely with development teams to ensure that APIs are developed according to defined specifications, meet business needs, and are delivered on time and within budget Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities to improve API design and functionality. Ensure that APIs comply with industry standards and best practices. Participate in Agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint retrospectives.Required Skills and Experience 5+ years of industry experience in a technical role, like Technical Architect or System Architect role Experience with API design Experience working in Agile environments and using Agile methodologies Familiarity with designing API Contracts between subsystems Proficient in API documentation tools, such as Swagger or OpenAPI Experience as a Systems Architect, working directly with software engineers in an agile environment and ideally as part of a DevOps model. Experience in producing high quality non-functional user stories, to a predefined readiness criterion, including witting detailed acceptance criteria and defining and documenting exception processes. Experience with API testing and quality assurance, supporting and working closely with development teams and assisting testers in developing test scenarios and test automation using BDD/TDD or similar industry standard approach. Familiarity with Contract Driven Development. Experience with Atlassian tools including Jira / Confluence, or similar. Familiar with Technical Service Design diagrammingIf you'd like to discuss this System Architect role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch