API Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• API Migration: Lead the migration of APIs from other API Management platforms to IBM API Connect.
• Design, implement, and validate migration strategies to ensure seamless API functionality.
• Conduct gap analysis and adapt existing APIs to meet the target platform's requirements.
• Development and Integration: Develop and deploy APIs using IBM API Connect, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.
• Integrate APIs with backend services and third-party systems.
• Optimize API designs for performance and user experience.
• Working experience with CI/CD and DevOps frameworks
• Knowledge and experience in the use of API gateways, specifically IBM API Connect.
• Must have understanding latest API Authentication standards and Authorization techniques.
• Should have working experience with Open API Specification standards, specifically YAML.
• Should communicate effectively with API owners, stake holders and technical teams.
• A good understanding of IT security in the context of API integration.
• Have experience of security implementations for Mutual Auth, Basic Auth, SSO, SAML, encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify.
• Experience in OAuth 2, API Key Manager.
• Knowledge of JSON, JWT and JWKS and their underlying specifications
• Knowledge of XSLT, XPATH, XQuery and RegEx
• Experience and knowledge in the use of the following technologies: GIT, specifically Bitbucket
• Jenkins
• JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket
• Kibana
• OAuth
• OpenAPI specification
• SOAP and REST