Api Development

Role Purpose:
To handle API and Middleware developments in order to deliver high quality, high performance, innovative, fit for purpose system to meet the business requirements in line with the business strategy.

Key Accountabilities:
1- API & Middleware Architecture;
- Help establishing an API-centric environment either by creating new API interfaces or enhancing existing APIs.
- Support API usage in a diverse data environment across multiple databases and file formats.
- Have IBM APPConnect based API expertise solutions on middleware platform.
- Experience in a broad variety of integration techniques, patterns, tools and methodologies
- Develop and maintain architecture and integration documentation.
- Participate in reviews to ensure processes support existing architecture, follow defined guidelines and coding standards and meet user requirements.
- Collaborate with end users and provide exceptional customer service by becoming a trusted business advisor.

2- Solutions Design;
- Define innovative solutions to fulfill business’ requirements;
- Promotes adoption of industry best practices for integration architecture frameworks, tools, standards and guidelines
- Monitors and recommends changes to improve the reliability, scalability, extensibility, security and performance of developed systems.
- Evaluates and recommends state-of-the-art development tools for use within the systems development environments to achieve the most efficient mix of system design and software
- Propose the development of innovative solutions to keep ahead of the competiors
- Implement approved innovative ideas by the business on time and within budget
- Ensure that Bupa is ahead of competition in terms of value added services through the use of technology

3- Development Activities;
- Develop innovative solutions to fulfill business’ requirements to keep ahead of the competitors
- Execute changes to improve the reliability, scalability, extensibility, security and performance of developed systems.
- Develop using state-of-the-art development tools within the systems development environments to achieve the most efficient mix of system design and software
- Implement approved innovative ideas by the business on time and within budget
- Integrate apps using modern technologies and tools
- Execute and adopt best practices on full development life cycle
- Introduce software codes to meet the requirements of existing code standards and conventions
- Provide quality assurance for solutions being developed before release to production
- Develops the code based on high level design and low level design.
- Executes the unit testing. Peer review of the code
- Installation and configuration, platform operations ,trouble shoot and support of API products.
- Scrum based delivery

4- Project Management;
- Projects coordination and deliverables within Technology Services and Business Transformation by individually handling and/or collaborating internally and externally with other teams
- Ensure projects are properly planned, organized, documented, and executed by meet operational and business standards and adhering to international best practices
- Monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of existing processes for the information technology programs and projects on hand
- As required, suggest and recommend innovations, enhancements, corrective actions for information technology projects
- Ensuring the delivery of all the work required to complete the project successfully, and information technology program and project deliverables will meet and exceed the business expectations, customers experience, and quality of service
- Ensure the most effective use of information technology teams and members assigned and contributing to information technology programs and projects
- Ensure that Technology Services and Business Transformation programs and projects risks are identified, analyzed, mitigated and escalated, and handled as appropriate for the business requirements
- Develop and maintain methodologies, approaches, standard templates, documentation, status updated, and data to support programs within Technology Services and Business Transformation
- Lead information technology programs and projects update meetings and reviews with management, department heads, leads, and team members

**Skills**:

- Experience with consuming and exposing web services - SOAP and REST
- Experience with data formats: XML, XML Schema, WSDL, DFDL, XSLT, JSON
- Proficient in Java and ESQL
- Good experience in Java Compute Node
- Version Control tool experience, preferably GITs
- Experience with data transmission protocols: HTTP/S, SSL and TLS1.2/1.3
- Strong SQL & Stored Procedure skillset.
- Experience using SQL Server and Oracle.
- Strong experience on HL7 schema creation.
- Good experience in Spring boot REST service implementation
- Good experience in ACE V11 analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
- Experience in IBM AP