Overview

To Serve as the overall API technology expert within Enterprise Technology Services to drive digital transformation through APIs across the enterprise accelerating products and services for our members and employees.

This role is responsible for research, evaluation, design, implementation, and maintaining of APIs to drive API adoption across the enterprise. The role requires hands-on development and operational support for the API platform. The candidate will have a technical consultative role to collaborate and support multiple product teams by identifying API integration needs and promote an API first approach while implementing business applications/solutions. The candidate will participate in scrum/agile release train/PI planning meetings and must be able to adapt to change. They will focus on value-based delivery with minimal day-to-day direction. Java skills are needed.

• Serves as subject matter expert for API integrations
• Develops/updates microservices and APIs
• Collaborates with development teams, business units, and other ETS areas to identify, define, develop/ modify, and implement enterprise reusable Services and APIs
• Works and contributes on the product backlog development by working closely with Business Analyst/Requirements Analyst, Scrum Masters, and API team members
• Works in an agile, fast paced, entrepreneurial environment with short release cycles and actively collaborate with multiple stakeholders
• Oversees peer code reviews and provide active guidance and direction on development
• Works with team to develop and maintain policies, procedures, standards, documentation and governance process for APIs
• Design integration solutions around cloud native applications which can work across public, private and hybrid clouds
• Develop integrations with modern API Management frameworks that can be deployed in both B2B and B2C scenarios
• Continually monitor the financial services technology landscape to track the latest innovations across the industry and communicate relevant information to ETS leadership
• Develop and apply architectural governance based on business and information technology strategies
• Serve as a subject matter expert on API integrations for enterprise initiatives and projects
• Hands-on development of APIs, microservices, and platform proxies as deliverables for enterprise initiatives and projects
• Participate in on-call rotation for emergency technical support and planned maintenance activities
• Participate in deployment rotation to oversee implementation and coordinate with supporting partnering teams

• Extensive experience that demonstrates expert knowledge of Java, JEE, Web Services and APIs
• Extensive experience with SOAP Services and RESTful APIs utilizing a lightweight data-interchange format such as JSON
• Expert knowledge and hands on experience with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platform architecture, Pivotal/Tanzu platform/Tanzu Kubernetes Grid or equivalent k8s managed runtime
• Expert skill in implementing API security using OAuth, SAML, JWT and OpenID Connect etc.
• Advanced knowledge of Agile frameworks (e.g., SAFE)
• Expert problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills
• Expert skill in effectively communicating technical and non-technical issues and information clearly and concisely to all levels of management and staff
• Experience in translating complex business requirements into functional architecture solutions
• Experience in working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders and vendors
• Expert verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
• Advanced skill troubleshooting and resolving technical problems
• Demonstrated skill in identifying industry trends and define their potential use in Navy Federal applications
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience equivalent combination of training, education, and experience

• Integration experience with enterprise platforms Salesforce, Oracle HCM/PeopleSoft and CRM/Dynamics