Hybrid – 3 Days WFO

The candidate will be responsible for developing, configuring, and modifying complex integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by designing and coding component-based applications using various programming languages; applying various software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall); building partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications; producing and validating design artifacts (e.g., object models, sequence diagrams) to help others understand and adhere to company coding standards; leading, mentoring, and training other technical resources.
This position is responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of client’s API Gateway Platform. This includes teaching domain expertise, providing technical guidance and mentoring, supporting the customers, resolving problems, and training as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team of scrum masters, product owners and fellow engineers (remote and local)
• Tackle technical challenges and ensure quality as we move from legacy technologies to next- generation applications
• Intellectual curiosity: Dig into undocumented, untouched legacy systems and solutions to understand logic and business processes by reading legacy code & configuration and talking to subject matter experts
• Document and lead the implementation of technical features, improvements, and innovations
• Continually look for ways to improve performance, quality, and efficiency.
• Translates business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications; recommending technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Collaborating with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs; writing, reviewing, and/or validating clear technical specifications and documentation; identifying specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions to support technical solutions while incorporating architectural designs.

Requirements:

• Experience leading at least one implementation of an API gateway platform/solution. (APIGEE)
• Experience in managing people & stakeholders across multiple regions delivering business value.
• A background in business operations and strategies, with a focus on business IT
• Experience translating client requirements into technical designs.
• Agile experience in engineering capabilities and an architectural mindset
• Collaboration, adaptability, flexibility, and the ability to manage time and prioritize work with a globally distributed development team.
• A thorough grasp of IT concepts, business operations, design and development tools, system architecture and technical standards, shared software concepts and layered solutions and designs
• Expert proficiency with software, architecture, and methodology. Technical skills may include experience with one or more of:
• Operative Systems (e.g. UNIX, Linux, Windows)
• Programming Languages (Java )
• Databases (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix, DB2)
• API Platform (APIGEE)
• Good understanding of domain-based SOA and its deployment in an enterprise.
• Hands on experience on debugging, maintenance and support activities related to the API Platform.
• Experience designing, implementing, and deploying large-scale, highly available, service- oriented software systems (e.g., REST, micro-services), especially extensible platforms that support ecosystems of third-party application/plugin developers.
• Automation experience preferred.
• Experience in hosting APIGW on cloud (preferably on GCP) preferred.
• Strong intellectual curiosity with a desire to learn new technologies and techniques, as well as legacy or existing solutions

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, CIS, MIS or related field required
• 7 – 15 years of experience in software development or a related field required
• 7+ years working on APIGW products preferably APIGEE.
• 5+ years with on premises / cloud implementations Open-Source Integration Solutions
• 7+ years of experience working with application and integration middleware
• 7+ years of Unix Shell Scripting
• 7+ years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
• 5+ years of experience working with defect or incident tracking software (e.g., SMAX, HP ALM/Quality Center, Remedy, ServiceNow)
• 7+ years of experience working with source code control systems
• 7+ years of experience writing technical documentation in a software development environment

Our client is a Fortune 500 US headquartered NYSE listed multinational –the largest retailer & distributor of the aftermarket automotive parts & accessories.