Senior API Product Manager

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Humana
Senior API Product Manager
in
Indianapolis
Indiana
Description
The API Product Manager will oversee the planning, development, deployment, and overall success of Humana's new contextualized APIs, as well as the management of internal APIs. They will interface with several teams to understand the current state of internal APIs to develop a strategy for building new contextualized APIs across multiple disparate products. This will include the development of a common set of standards for the APIs that dictate architecture, contracts, supported authentication mechanisms, filtering, pagination, limits, error handling, etc. They will also proselytize the API strategy and standards to internal teams to ensure buy-in across the organization.
Responsibilities
The API Product Manager will be the primary customer advocate for Internal and/or external APIs and will define a strategy to ensure that their needs are met to ensure adoption. Along with interfacing with internal developers, the API Manager will coordinate with the Product Management team to understand internal business requirements and communicate the importance of maintaining and improving the APIs and technologies over time. They will also work with and support a cross functional team including stakeholders from QA, Documentation, Business, Customer Care, and IT. Their success will be measured by their ability to design and develop product functionality that helps create and support innovative products. Additionally, they are expected to learn the product, understand its value proposition and Personas, and participate in the validation of requirements. 
*Essential Duties and Responsibilities: *
Must have fundamental understanding of key API concepts to define and design foundational API components and architecture
Meet with key stakeholders to understand the current state of internal APIs and requirements for future public APIs
Meet with customers and partners and understand their use cases for a public API
Define common API standards across multiple teams and products to ensure a similar internal/external developer experience when interacting with AssetWorks APIs.
Establish API strategy governance, internal best practices, and lead development efforts in coordination with Product Management
Understand trends within the API industry to influence our internal API strategy, including the adoption of new frameworks, styles, or technologies
Ensure that the public API can be consumed by external developers who are not experts in business logic
Familiarity with API Gateways (Kong, Tyk, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, etc.)
Manage and collaborate with a team of developers to ensure product requirements are met
Proselytize API standards across internal teams to ensure buy-in by communicating benefits of adhering to common standards across multiple teams
Define priorities for new API product development to ensure that the team is working on the right things in the right order.
Able to collaborate with and challenge product managers to solidify requirements and build and appropriate designs 
Ability to lead several complex projects simultaneously 
Demonstrated knowledge of all phases of product life cycle   
*Requirements: *
The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science preferred, or a certificate from a technical training institute. The position requires: 
At least five years of experience developing APIs and/or experience utilizing APIs to build integrations, interfaces, or applications.
Excellent attention to detail 
Effective listening, communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills 
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills  
Has demonstrated the ability to collaborate and has had successful interactions across departments and with customers 
Successful time management and ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities 
The ability to be a productive team member supporting a wide range of stakeholders 
The ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, both as an individual and as part of a team 
A passion for technology 
Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite (preferred) or similar productivity suite 
Knowledge of architectural in the API space/industry and can be trusted to help guide product direction to ensure the best possible outcomes.
The ability to think outside of the box and present creative solutions to development challenges
Experience with source control (SVN, Git, etc.) 
A strong understanding of Design Patterns, Async/Await, and Interfaces
Knowledge of current Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural frameworks (e.g. Angular 2 , Kendo, Sencha). Experience with Angular 2 , Typescript, RxJS, and Electron are a plus
Experience in developing within the Agile framework (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.)     
The ability to think outside of the box and present creative solutions to development challenges
A Demonstrated ability to effectively meet product requirements and communicate progress
A Detail oriented mindset with the ability to multi-task and lead complex projects
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40

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