API Developer - Standard & Control

Vallum Associates; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A technology consultancy is seeking an experienced API Developer based in Sheffield. This role includes responsibilities like collaborating with stakeholders on API standards, facilitating product planning, and ensuring customer needs are prioritized. The ideal candidate should possess strong leadership skills, experience with product ownership, and the ability to communicate effectively within a global team. This position offers a hybrid work model allowing two days onsite.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance API standards.
• Facilitate product planning to deliver the vision of API standards.
• Align roadmaps for products to customers.
• Run forums for discussing API standards.
• Focus on customer-centric new work.
• Use data to improve customer understanding of products.

Skills

Development team leadership experience

Product ownership

Roadmap planning

Experience in a control environment

Working with global distributed teams

Effective communication

Networking for collaboration

Job description

Overview

The Role: API Developer

Location: Sheffield, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Implementation Partner HSBC

Remote work option Available: Hybrid 2 Days Onsite

Job Description

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• To be a pro-active, collaborative and inquisitive member of the DevX Standards and Controls leadership team. This role supports the head of Standards and Controls directly:

This role will:

• 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 an global organisation and globally distributed development teams
• Communicating ideas, views, and concerns effectively and respectfully and actively participates in exchanges of ideas with others
• Ability to develop effective networks by seeking out opportunities for collaboration