API System Integration Engineer

Main Purpose of the Role

The Integration Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, configuration, and onboarding of API endpoints on the API gateway, facilitating seamless integration between DFI's internal and external systems. This role also involves troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintaining the API platform to ensure continuous optimal performance.

Additionally, the Integration Engineer will collaborate with various teams to ensure system integrations align with business requirements. They will review processes, enhance production service delivery, and ensure compliance with IT strategy, security policies, and guidelines while meeting business timelines.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare functional and test data. Monitor and supports testing activities which include API performance and code optimization as required.
• Integrate 3rd party services through APIs and standard integration methodology and tool to deliver quality results on time, with minimal supervision.
• Determines the design and framework conversion of the integration meets the technical requirement, aligned with the business process, system and hardware integration has met the organization needs.
• Define and drive integration strategies and methods with principal and lead architect aligned with the defined deadline; using the selected tool and strategy; and met the specifications required based on scope of work.
• Communicates and collaborated with relevant teams to understand the requirements using the defined architecture frameworks and guidelines in integration and API implementation aligned with IT strategy.
• Provides expertise in API protocols and frameworks in building secured, maintainable, and scalable APIs.
• Create and maintain API specification and documentation. Documents integration processes and create user guides for team use.
• Verifies and tests integration points based on assigned tasks related to support activities and requests, and even projects, if required.
• Carry out investigation and provide an initial assessment that will help users to understand the issue. Provide initial root cause analysis and sequence of events to help in collaborative analysis and prevent future issues.
• Plans, coordinates, and provides necessary documents until approval in adherence to Change Management process.
• Engage with customers through various channels to ensure clear and concise information to resolve issues and deliver requirements.
• Build an automated system performance monitoring and generates reports on recurring issues to preemptively address potential problems and enhance overall system reliability.
• Involved in transition process and knowledge transfer activities that support teams by conducting knowledge-sharing sessions.

KEY REQUIREMENTS (Education, work experience and skills, industry certification, language proficiency)

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Analyze and design the system requirements
• Create RAML specifications as API contracts for development
• Understand and implement Dataweave scripts
• Deploy APIs to Cloudhub, Runtime Fabric, On-prem workers, etc.
• Practice API-Led Connectivity
• Implement basic policies in API Manager
• Create/Manage Basic CI/CD Pipelines (Maven Plugin, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of the Agile Software Development Life Cycle and been exposed to Scrum projects
• Mulesoft Certified Developer Level 1

Desired Skills

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, or a related field is required.
• 3+ years relevant work experience in API gateway or similar integration platform.
• 3+ Years of experience designing, developing and implementing RESTful or GraphQL API with JSON or XML for systems integration.
• 2+ years hands-on experience on programming and scripting using Unix, Batch, Ruby and Python.
• 2+ years' experience on file transfer or any Workload automation tool
• Strong knowledge of organizational, software, and implementation blueprints and technical documents focusing on workflow processes, business process analysis.
• Basic knowledge of IT security and databases.
• Can work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate and explain technical matters to non-technical project team members.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to focus and prioritize tasks. - Ability to work in a team environment.
• Cloud (Azure, GCP, or AWS), either one of the identified Cloud Platforms, preferred but not required.