Our client is migrating from IBM API Connect On-Prem to IBM APIC SaaS and is seeking a Software Engineer to support this migration effort. This is a contract position (5 months, possible extensions) and is mainly remote (possible onsite meetings in Reston VA could occur at random). To accommodate the hybrid nature of this position, and a final round onsite interview in Reston VA, we are seeking candidates that reside in one of the following states: DC, MD, VA, WV, NC, PA, DE, NY, NJ.

Key Responsibilities
- Participate in migration of APIs, Products, Catalogs, Developer Portals, and DataPower configurations from IBM API Connect On-Prem to IBM APIC SaaS.
- Design, develop, implement, test, and publish APIs on IBM API Connect V10, IBM APIC SaaS, and AWS API Gateway platforms.
- Review API specifications for compliance with enterprise standards, API governance frameworks, security requirements, and best practices.
- Establish and maintain API governance standards, development guidelines, reusable frameworks, and lifecycle management processes.
- Design and support hybrid cloud integrations across IBM APIC SaaS, AWS API Gateway, cloud-native services, and on-premises systems.
- Design and develop reusable API frameworks, accelerators, and integration components utilizing OpenAPI Specifications.
- Design, develop, and implement custom API and DataPower gateway flows, security policies, routing, mediation, and transformation services.
- Review architecture and technical documentation and provide recommendations for improvements.
- Generate operational, usage, and performance reports using APIM Analytics and Datadog dashboards.
- Design and implement automated API testing frameworks for functional, integration, regression, performance, and load testing. Integrate automated API testing into Jenkins and Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines.
- Utilize Amazon Q Developer and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity.
- Support customer onboarding activities, API consumer enablement, and API publishing processes.
- Support production deployments, release activities, incident triage, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Single Sign-On (SSO), RBAC, IAM, Venafi, and CyberArk.
- Monitor API platforms using Datadog, APIM Analytics, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
- Perform technical research, evaluate emerging technologies, conduct proof-of-concepts (POCs), and recommend modern cloud solutions.
Desired Competencies
- Hands-on engineering mindset with strong delivery focus.
- Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives.
- Strong innovation and solution design capabilities.
- Ability to establish standards and drive adoption across teams.
- Strong customer-facing and stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive, highly organized, and quality focused.
- Ability to work efficiently in fast-paced enterprise environments.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
- Strategic thinking and roadmap planning capabilities.

Required Skills

8 years Software Engineering experience with the follow Technical Skills

- IBM API Connect V10
- IBM DataPower Gateway V10
- IBM API Connect SaaS (preferred)
- AWS API Gateway (preferred)
- OpenAPI Specification 2.0/3.0
- SwaggerHub Enterprise/Open Source
- GraphQL
Development Technologies
- Node.js
- Python
- Bash/Shell Scripting
- Bitbucket/Git
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Amazon Q Developer
- SoapUI