API Standards Lead

We are a team of around 200 people distributed globally and are engaged in a wide array of projects touching all business units (Institutional Securities, Investment Management, Wealth Management) and functions (e.g. Operations, Finance, Risk, Trading, Treasury, Resilience) across the Firm. The team vision is a multi-year effort to simplify the firm’s data architecture and business processes front-to-back with goals of reducing infrastructure and manpower costs, improving the ability to demonstrate control of data, empowering developers by providing consistent means of handling data, and facilitating data-driven insights & decision making.

Job Location: Sheffield (2 days a week) / Remote (3 days a week)

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The DevX (Developer Experience) Standards and Controls team is a newly forming part of the wider CTO organisation. We aim to improve development teams' experience of abiding by and consuming Technology controls. API standards are a new set of requirements on all teams that expose APIs outside of their applications. This role is to refine and own a set of standards for APIs. The role will work with a large set of customers to understand their challenges in meeting these standards. This role will then work with a set of engineering teams to integrate, evolve and streamline a product and set of applications into a coherent user journey for our customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• To be a pro-active, collaborative and inquisitive member of the DevX Standards and Controls leadership team.
• Understand and enhance the standards in collaboration with various stakeholders.
• Lead/facilitate product planning and prioritisation to deliver towards a future vision for where API standards go and how the tooling aligns to this.
• Align and communicate roadmaps for the product to the customers.
• Run customer forums for API standards.
• Ensure that the customer is being thought about at the centre of new work and transitions.
• Champion the usage of data and metrics to improve understanding of what customers are doing on the products.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE REQUIRE

• Development team leadership experience.
• Product ownership, product planning, roadmap planning.
• Experience of working in a control environment or with Technology controls.
• Experience in working within a global organisation and globally distributed development teams.
• Communicating ideas, views, and concerns effectively and respectfully and actively participating in exchanges of ideas with others.
• Ability to develop effective networks by seeking out opportunities for collaboration.

Required

• Strong understanding of setting and designing controls and standards.
• A desire to do what’s right for the bank not just what is the easiest way out.
• Strong technical knowledge; particularly of APIs and API development.
• Ability to lead and guide teams.
• Ability to co-ordinate multiple moving parts and define a coherent strategy.

Nice-to-have

• Developed APIs or worked in API teams.
• Inventory and asset management knowledge.
• Product ownership.

Diversity Statement

Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative 'Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant's gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.