Job Description:

The IT Pre-Sales Solution Architect is a senior-level technical expert responsible for designing high-level IT solutions that address complex business needs during the pre-sales phase. Acting as a technical advisor, the Pre-Sales Architect collaborates with sales, product, and engineering teams to create solution architectures that align with customer requirements, industry standards, and business goals.

This role requires deep technical knowledge, strong business acumen, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will be working on GOOGLE PRESALES SOLUTIONS ENGINEER FOR GOOGLE CLOUD

Key Responsibilities:

• Define the API roadmap, strategy and solution for an enterprise customer, having good knowledge of SOA, API frameworks.
• Mentor teams for designing, implementing, testing and deploying the APIs using the latest technologies and best practices out there in the market.
• Design and implement API management using API management software like Apigee which would include API proxies, mashups, northbound and southbound security, rate limiting, analytics, monetization and developer portals
• Understand and communicate risks, issues, challenges and status/progress of the project
• Facilitate DR (Disaster Recovery) exercises to ensure that the team are fully prepared in the event of a catastrophe
• Lead Capacity Planning and Management activities to ensure that the Apigee platform will be able to handle additional transactions in the future
• Lead team to document requirements, design, architecture and test scripts.
• Experience architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems.
• Familiarity with middleware and cloud technologies like NOSQL datastores, Google Cloud and Mobile app development.
• Ability to lead architecture discussions and influence key decision makers around deployment topologies, scaling, performance and sizing.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel as required.

Qualifications:

Educational Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• A master’s degree or MBA is a plus, especially in enterprise-focused roles.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in IT consulting
• Must have played a leadership role in API Web and SOA, ESB, Integration implementations
• 1 to 5 years of hands-on experience with an API management software like Apigee or equivalent with the knowledge of API mashups, analytics, developer networks, monetization models and security.
• Certification in Apigee is preferred.
• 4 to 7 years of experience in SOA middleware Integration technologies
• Excellent Development experience with Java and other languages like JavaScript, Python, Node.js.
• Knowledge and Experience of 12 Factor Development, with multi tiered applications design.
• Experience working with OWASP security threat protection strategies and implementation
• Experience with web services related standards such as HTTP, REST, SOAP, OAuth, OpenID, JWT.
• Experience building and delivering Proofs of Concept (PoCs) independently and effectively
• Excellent knowledge of REST/JSON with working knowledge of other protocols and Design patterns.
• In depth knowledge of HTTP(s) /HTTPS protocol, web services
• Knowhow of Cassandra, ZooKeeper, Postgres, LDAP, AD etc.

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