Senior Lead- API Governance & Product Management
- أبو ظبي
- دائم
- دوام كامل
- Define and implement a comprehensive API governance framework that ensures consistency, security, and scalability across all value streams.
- Drive the API Technical product strategy to support digital transformation, platform enablement, and ecosystem integration.
- Foster an API-first mindset across the streams, promoting modularity, reusability, and agility.
- Ensure APIs are designed and managed as strategic digital assets that deliver measurable business value.
- Align API initiatives with enterprise architecture, data strategy, and reusable adoption goals.
- Establish metrics and KPIs to measure API performance, adoption, and business impact.
- Lead the API onboarding process through technical product owners for internal and external consumers, ensuring ease of access and compliance.
- Develop and maintain API governance policies, including naming conventions, documentation standards, and security protocols.
- Own the API product lifecycle, from ideation and design to retirement and replacement.
- Manage the API catalog and developer portal, ensuring discoverability and usability.
- Monitor and report on API performance, adoption, and ROI to leadership.
- Facilitate API design reviews, ensuring adherence to governance and architectural standards.
- Drive API innovation, including experimentation with emerging technologies like AI-powered APIs and event-driven architectures.
- Promote API reuse and standardization across business units to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
- Ensure security and compliance through regular audits, threat modeling, and policy enforcement.
- Lead cross-functional working groups to align API strategy with enterprise goals.
- Maintain API documentation standards, ensuring clarity, completeness, and accessibility.
- Support incident management and troubleshooting for API-related issues.
- Contribute to budget planning and resource allocation for API Engineering.
- Provide training, enablement, and support to development teams on API best practices.
- Ability to translate business needs into API capabilities.
- Expertise in API protocols (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), API gateways, and service mesh.
- Strong grasp of API lifecycle governance, versioning, and deprecation policies.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (e.g., Open Banking, GDPR, PSD2, HIPAA) and their impact on APIs.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without authority.
- Strong communication and evangelism skills to promote API adoption and literacy.
- Proficiency in API analytics, usage tracking, and performance optimization.
- Experience with tools like API Management, Kong, Cloud Native Services, Kubernetes