Apigee Specialist -Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Title: Apigee Developer Location :Memphis TN Position : Contract 1yr + Minimum exp :9+ Years 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 atleast one implementation of an API gateway platform/solution. (APIGEE, Layer 7) • 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, Layer 7) • 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.