Api Management Technical Expert

Summary

Join a global IT Consulting company as a Senior API Management Tech Lead, with the possibility of working onsite in Geneva or remotely from Luxembourg, Greece, or Belgium. This role requires an IT Technical expert with extensive API Management experience and fluency in English. The successful candidate will collaborate with officials, be part of a technical team, and work at customer premises. The position involves designing, building, and implementing API management solutions, troubleshooting issues, and engaging stakeholders. A university IT degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience are required.

Requirements

• University IT degree in related subject and at least 10 years of relevant experience
• Proven and extensive experience in designing, building prototypes and commissioning production-level API Management solutions
• Extensive experience with APIs, security standards, API schemas and directory services
• Software development background
• Hands-on UNIX/Linux experience
• Cloud/AWS knowledge and experience (AWS API Gateway, computing services)
• Experience in troubleshooting complex API issues
• Experience with REST, SOAP and HTTP protocols
• Good knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML
• Hands on experience with OAS/Swagger, RAML
• Good knowledge of LDAP, Active Directory
• Very good knowledge and experience of at least one programming language and its related tools (e.g., Java, Maven)
• Excellent communication skills; spoken and written English

Responsibilities

• Gather and document APIs and API Management requirements after in-depth consultations with all relevant stakeholders
• Implement a working API Management prototype based on an open-source solution (e.g., WSO2 or similar)
• Work with other dev teams to include in the prototype a diverse set of APIs from the major stakeholders
• Integrate the prototype with security controls (e.g., OpenAM authentication server, log reporting)
• Troubleshoot any technical and API issues as needed
• Engage all the relevant stakeholders and promote a knowledge-sharing environment
• Write a detailed technical proposal for a long-term API Management solution
• Conduct technical review activities to keep up-to-date with the latest practices and technologies

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in Agile