API Analyst

Position: API Analyst 

Duration: 6-12 months 

Location: Seattle, WA 

 W2 and C2C ok 

Seeking an experienced and highly motivated candidate responsible to work with multiple teams within the organization and outside of it, in order to drive consistency, best practices and efficient integration architecture. Someone who has spent time being a functional analyst within a Web API team that delivers external-facing APIs for different applications. The API analyst will be involved in Joint Application Design (JADs) meetings, architecture discussions and various other high-level design meetings. Will also maintain current standards (some of which have already been developed) and build additional best practices documentation as needed.

Project Background:

This is a long-term position, so someone local to Seattle or able to move here is needed. The company in question has just began a SOA journey where multiple teams responsible for front-end and back-end systems are building out SOA APIs to their systems. 

Skills Required:

• Sound understanding of data modeling, including relational and non-relational sources

• Sound understanding of XML, XSDs, and various messaging patterns utilizing XML

• Sound understanding of JSON, how and when it is preferable to XML messaging

• Sound understanding of RESTful services, with regard to:

• Resource-based API modeling across enterprise systems

• HTTP methods and how they map to CRUD functionality

• HTTP error codes and how they can be standardized and used in APIs

• API versioning mechanisms and ways to ensure backward compatibility

• API security mechanisms, their relative strengths and weaknesses in an enterprise background

• Ability to document and present best practices to various teams and stakeholders

• To be proactive with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Sound understanding of integration analysis background

• Ability to connect with people, empathize with their problems, and at the same time with clarity and focus gently steer them into practices that will ensure a consistent enterprise API model.