Job Description

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliche people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

The role of Global Enterprise API Lead is responsible for application integration design and API adoption across the enterprise and with our customers and external partners. This role will contribute to and execute against the enterprise API strategy, including the definition of standard methodologies for design, testing, deployment, and operations. The individual in this position is knowledgeable in all aspects of distributed application architecture, including API, Web Service, and application security protocols and will operate as a technical leader for solutions based in Apigee and standard methodologies.

Focus on API implementation quality, orchestration design, and analytics definition within the Apigee platform.

Responsibilities include technical leadership and guidance for the API delivery and governance teams to ensure compliance with existing Architecture Standards, customer requirements, and governance policies, as well as communication across the organization!

Constantly communicates with Product Owners, architects, technology teams, and executives regarding standard methodologies and the status of assigned projects and initiatives.

The Work Itself

* Analyzes and articulates API architecture requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, platform environment, software, and system interfaces
* Contributes to the conceptual and physical design of application integration using APIs and events.
* Reviews and approves detailed API designs produced by delivery vendors. Ensures the architectural integrity of API centric projects and solutions.
* Works along side partners to analyze and understand enterprise business drivers to determine integration architecture requirements
* Provides strategic thought on adoption and implementation of Apigee standard methodologies within the context of Ally's environment
* Effectively communicates and shares Apigee API management knowledge to support products and project teams
* Assists Product Owners to define and detail technical scope based on customer / business needs for assigned API projects
* Evaluates, recommends, and justifies technical scope and direction changes during Planning and Design phases
* Establishes and documents full lifecycle API management standard methodologies.
* Guides API development teams in the application of proper utilization of API management tools
* Identify the vital objectives and key results to measure the efficiency and to validate the success of our efforts.

The Skills You Bring

* Active experience and proven history of success implementing Apigee based solutions, and building standard methodologies.
* Knowledge of and experience with service oriented architecture concepts
* Knowledge of all components of application design in a high-availability environment.
* Solid understanding of service orchestration and messaging technologies. Ability to apply the long-term (big picture) perspective to tactical situations
* Hands on experience with development operations to support API Development and deployment using CI/CD processes, Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket.
* Ability to evaluate information quickly, identify key issues and formulate conclusions based on sound, practical judgment, experience, and common sense
* 7-10 years of progressive experience in distributed application and integration design, culminating with technical leadership responsibilities implementing APIs with the Apigee product.
* 1-2 years of deep experience in API strategy formulation and alignment with business and product needs
* Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or a related study, or equivalent experience. Apigee Implementation, Architecture and/or development training

How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation -- or total rewards -- extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
* Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.