GM – Solutions Delivery

Job Purpose :

It is expected that EAI & BPM Deliveries and the API lifecycle management for APIs hosted by the platform are managed & the role primarily involves

• Reviewing of all solutions involving APIs/ BPM processes EAI & BPM in the VIL ecosystem for correctness
• Giving primary guidance to APIs/BPM processes design
• Ensuring that Development & Testing of all APIs/BPM are carried out in FTR and OTD manner
• Reviewing effort given by the vendor partners and managing the Vendor Development bucket utilization
• Manage the VIL EAI & BPM API Lifecycle involving onboarding of APIs and people onto the SOA governance tool of VIL’s choice

KRAs and Accountabilities:

Solution Authority for APIs and BPM processes

• Solutions for all demands involving APIs and/or BPM processes to be reviewed to ensure compliance to the EAI Design patterns, principles and organizational standards like CSM etc.
• Review the efforts given by the Vendor partners and manage the Vendor Development bucket utilization from the portfolio standpoint
• Interact with stakeholders within VIL and external VIL like TRAI, Google, PayTM, Banks to ensure that all details are thrashed out during design time leading to reduction in issues during development and subsequently deployment

Development for EAI & BPM

• Manage the development happening due to requirements in the Integration domain where in cross system communication is needed through APIs
• Ensure that the necessary Testing support is provided by the EAI & BPM team for all the demands involving EAI & BPM APIs
• Ensure that changes due to various Demands are planned and performed properly on the respective environments like SIT, UAT and Production

API Lifecycle Management and SOA governance

• Govern the API lifecycle involving stages of Ideation, Creation, Monitoring and Deprecation. All necessary actions to be taken by the surrounding systems are to be driven by a person in this role.
• Ensure that the necessary Organizational Assets like API Connect, IT Demand Tool and SAR portals are kept current throughout the Development Lifecycle
• Ensure that the API Connect tool is available to the Business Analysts and Solution Architects across the VIL IT ecosystem, this involves onboarding and support for the tool usage

Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience :

• Experience in at least 1 contemporary EAI and BPM suites with focus on Application Architecture is a must
• Well versed and experienced in concepts of Design Patterns, EAI and BPM suites, SOA governance, API lifecycle management
• Should have handled End to End EAI deliveries, right from Requirements to Deployment for at least 5 years
• Well versed in IT ADM methods like Agile, Waterfall & usage of DevOps tool Chain
• Experienced in Vendor Management