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Develop and maintain support applications and integrations to support business needs.

Assist with quality assurance tasks including code reviews, testing and review of peer code.

Work with stake holders and Manager of Software Development to analyze needs.

Provide support to tier 1 support and end users as needed.

Follow and collaborate on standards and practices to ensure high quality.

Work within a scrum team of developers, architects and product owner

Technical Skills:

API Architecture Understanding: Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, SOAP, and other API types.

OAS (OpenAPI Specification) Expertise: Ability to read, write, and evaluate API specifications.

Knowledge of Protocols: Understanding of HTTP, HTTPS, and possibly other communication protocols.

Data Modeling: Proficiency in understanding and evaluating data schemas, like JSON Schema, YAML or SOAP/XML Schema.

Event-Driven Architecture: Understand message queues, event streams, and other

Security Protocols: Understanding of OAuth, JWT, API keys, and other authentication and authorization mechanisms.

Rate Limiting and Throttling: Knowledge of how these policies affect API usage and performance.

Development Tools: Familiarity with tools like VSCode, Spectral, Stoplight Studio, or other IDEs and API documentation and testing tools.

Soft Skills:

Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical scenarios in a straightforward manner to stakeholders at different levels.

Critical Thinking: Evaluation of design decisions, trade-offs, and potential future challenges.

Attention to Detail: Especially crucial for analyzing API documentation, error messages, and data models.

Negotiation Skills: Often governance reviews involve negotiations on standards, practices, or resource allocation.

Teamwork: Ability to collaborate with architects, developers, QA, and other roles involved in API development.