Lead - Data Power

API Development and Integration

• Design and develop scalable RESTful and SOAP APIs using IBM API Connect ensuring adherence to best practices for API lifecycle management.
• Implement robust integration solutions between internal and external systems utilizing APIC for managing the entire API lifecycle.
• Customize and develop API policies including security policies traffic management and routing rules using DataPower and APIC.
• Develop custom code and transformation logic in Node.js Java Python JavaScript and XSLT for complex API use cases and advanced data handling.
• Design and implement API security mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0 SAML JWT Mutual TLS (mTLS) and other authentication and authorization frameworks.
• Lead the integration of legacy systems with APIdriven architectures ensuring smooth data and service migration. 

API and DataPower Gateway Administration:

• Install configure and administer IBM DataPower Gateway and API Connect for secure and optimized API traffic routing.
• Deploy and manage API services across environments (Dev Test Prod) and ensure consistency and security across deployments.
• Administer and monitor APIC and DataPower clusters performing load balancing failover and ensuring high availability (HA) of API services.
  Configure DataPower for advanced security functions including encryption/decryption SSL termination and XML firewall policies.
• Manage API versioning throttling policies and API subscriptions ensuring proper access control and governance.
• Implement and maintain logging monitoring and alerting using tools like Splunk ELK or other monitoring solutions to track API performance and identify bottlenecks or issues. 

Scripting and Automation:

• Develop and maintain automation scripts (using Python Bash Ansible or similar) to streamline API deployment testing and monitoring tasks.
• Automate the creation deployment and versioning of APIs using CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitLab or Ansible).
• Write custom XSLT transformations and GatewayScript for DataPower to support advanced API routing request/response transformation and security policies.

Security and Performance Management:

• Ensure APIs are compliant with organizational security standards by configuring DataPower for API security including message integrity contentbased routing and data protection.
• Monitor and troubleshoot API performance issues implementing optimization strategies for both DataPower and APIC.
• Implement traffic control policies using APIC and DataPower to manage traffic spikes ensure SLAs and prevent denialofservice (DoS) attacks.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and ensure that API services are regularly patched and updated to meet security compliance.

Collaboration and Leadership:

• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate API solutions into CI/CD pipelines ensuring seamless automation of API management tasks.
• Work closely with security networking and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth deployment and integration of APIs with existing enterprise systems.
• Mentor junior developers and API engineers on API development best practices coding standards and troubleshooting techniques.
• Lead technical discussions with business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into API solutions.

Qualifications :

Primary Skills :

• 6 years of experience with IBM DataPower Gateway and IBM API Connect with strong expertise in API design development and administration.
• Proficiency in developing APIs using Node.js Java or Python for backend logic and integration.
• Strong experience in scripting languages such as Python Shell/Bash and JavaScript for automating APIrelated tasks.
• Expertise in developing and maintaining DataPower services such as XML Firewall Web Service Proxy MultiProtocol Gateway (MPGW) and API Gateway.
• Strong knowledge of API security standards including OAuth 2.0 SAML JWT and Mutual TLS (mTLS).
• Handson experience with XSLT GatewayScript and JavaScript for creating complex transformations and API routing rules.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins Git Ansible) for automating API deployments and managing multienvironment API releases.
• Knowledge of load balancing high availability and failover configurations for DataPower and API Connect environments.
• Strong familiarity with SOAP REST and microservices architectures.
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g. Splunk ELK Datadog) to track API performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker for containerized deployments is a plus.

Secondary Skills :

• Experience in IBM App Connect Enterprise
• Experience in MQ
• Experience in CP4I

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime