Senior DataPower Developer

About the role

This is a 12+ months (on-going contract) Senior DataPower/APIC Developer position located in a HYBRID setting in Torrance, CA 90501.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support enterprise API and integration solutions utilizing IBM API Connect (APIC) and IBM DataPower.
• Develop and configure Multi-Protocol Gateway (MPGW) services for enterprise integrations.
• Configure and support Web Service Proxy (WSP), XML Firewall, and MPGW services.
• Design and implement B2B integrations with external trading partners using IBM DataPower.
• Configure and manage SSL/TLS security which includes SSL Proxy Profiles, Crypto Profiles, Crypto Certificates etc.
• Configure error handling, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting on IBM DataPower appliances.
• Lead application development, enhancement, and production support activities for multiple large-scale business initiatives.
• Research, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents involving APIs, middleware, cloud integrations, and backend applications.
• Perform impact analysis across multiple platforms, systems, and integration points to support project delivery and change management.
• Design and implement API security solutions, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, Mutual TLS (mTLS), LDAP integration, and certificate management.
• Develop and maintain API products, catalogs, developer portals, rate limiting policies, and governance standards.
• Design integration solutions between cloud-hosted and on-premises applications using APIC and DataPower.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, infrastructure, cloud, and application development teams on solution design and implementation.
• Participate in CI/CD automation, deployment planning, release management, and environment promotion activities.
• Monitor API platform health, analyze performance metrics, and implement optimization opportunities.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement long-term corrective actions for recurring production issues.
• Support OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) deployments and containerized integration workloads.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, design specifications, and operational procedures.
• Mentor junior developers and provide technical leadership and best practices guidance.
• Participate in on-call production support during off-hours, weekends, and critical business events.

Required Experience/Skills

• 8+ years of overall software development and integration experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting IBM API Connect (APIC) and IBM DataPower solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with IBM API Connect (APIC) and IBM DataPower Gateway platforms.
• Extensive experience with REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, WSDL, XSD, XPath, XSLT, GatewayScript, EDI, and related integration technologies.
• Strong understanding of API lifecycle management, API governance, and API security best practices.
• Experience implementing OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, Mutual TLS (mTLS), LDAP Integration, and certificate-based authentication.
• Experience creating APIs, products, plans, catalogs, and developer portals in IBM APIC.
• Experience configuring DataPower services, security objects, crypto profiles, and transformation policies.
• Experience integrating Salesforce, Loan Origination Systems, Servicing Systems, Payment Gateways, Fraud Platforms, and external partners.
• Experience designing and deploying integration solutions in AWS cloud environments.
• Knowledge of AWS services including VPC, NLB, S3, security controls, networking, and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Experience enabling secure communication between cloud-hosted and on-premises applications.
• Experience with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Kubernetes concepts, ingress/egress policies, secrets, routes, and container deployments.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar automation tools.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ELK, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Experience performing production support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance tuning activities.
• Experience with IBM MQ integration and messaging patterns.
• Experience with AWS S3 integration and cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience building APIC analytics dashboards and reporting solutions.