API Gateway Platform Engineer

Job Description

Citi is changing, and Internet Gateway and API Management Engineering is driving that transformation.  Technology Infrastructure is a global organization striving to provide measurable competitive advantage to Citigroup by delivering modern best practices and automated tooling that empower our development and operations teams to deliver value to the business more quickly, more frequently, more reliably and at larger scale than ever before.

As Engineering Lead Developer in the Internet Gateway and API Management team you will be responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, acquisition and deployment of hardware, software and network infrastructure in coordination with the Client/Partner technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead efforts to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned framework. This is a hands-on technical experience opportunity.  This is also an excellent opportunity to gain expertise in many different tools and technologies; make an impact in a large organization; and gain exposure to the many business and technology initiatives. We are continually looking for ways to improve processes, better integrate our systems and automate as much as possible in order to Deliver Value to our Clients.

Responsibilities:

• Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services and hands-on Development
• Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap
• Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
• Recommend product customization for system integration
• Work directly with clients/partner application teams to drive rollout of tools, educate teams, and assist with adoption
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
• Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services

Knowledge/Experience:

• Manage day-to-day system development and maintenance activities for Apigee Platform Engineering in global regions.
• Strong knowledge of full software development, testing, deployment and operational lifecycle
• Experience of developing and supporting scalable products for a large user base
• Must have development knowledge in REST and SOAP based APIs.
• Must have experience in developing XSLT, XML and XQuery.
• Must have expertise in Unix shell scripting and at least one more other common scripting/automation languages/environments like JavaScript, Perl, Ansible, etc.
• Experience in IBM API Management in implementing REST API, SOAP APIs, Plans, Security Policies.
• Mastery of Apigee Hybrid required; any additional experience in Apigee Edge or Apigee X is a plus. Bonus for hands on knowledge of at least one more of AOPI Connect, Kong Enterprise, or Tyk.
• Must have knowledge of Load balancers, firewalls, DMZ and other network concepts related to Apigee.
• Expertise in implementing cryptography technologies like Encryption, Decryption, Digital Signature.
• Must have hands on experience implementing and debugging OAuth2.0, SAML and SSO.
• Very comfortable in an agile development environment -- working knowledge of git-based version control systems e.g. Github, standard tools like Jira, etc.
• Ideally cloud-native - you need to be very comfortable navigating, engineering and debugging in kubernetes environments like OpenShift, AWS EKS, GCP, etc.

Qualifications:

• 6-10+ years of relevant experience in an Engineering/Developer role
• Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment
• At least two years of experience on Apigee Hybrid a must.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices
• Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Proven track record of operational process change and improvement

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

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