API/Integration Developer

Capio Group is looking for an experienced API/Integration Developer!

Full-time employee - Remote
Salary: $125,000 - $135,000

About Us:

Capio Group is a California-based Information Technology Consulting firm serving the public sector since 2010. We assist the Government in delivering large, complex systems and solutions. Capio Group is a small, but quickly growing firm that mixes good ideas, with great people, to achieve extraordinary results for our clients. We offer the salary and benefits of the bigger companies, with the added bonus of a flexible workplace and a great work-life balance.

Scope of Work:

Capio Group is looking for an experienced API/Integration Developer to work as a part of the team on enhancing, replacing and integrating the client's existing legacy systems into a new modernized system.  This new system would allow the client to streamline business processes and offer more efficient online services to users. The team will also provide technical expertise across key domains, including enterprise architecture, network infrastructure, database administration, communications systems analysis, application development and programming, quality assurance and validation, training support, and cybersecurity to ensure a secure, scalable, and high-performing system. The API/Integration Developer will provide technical services during the initial planning, design, development, testing, and implementation phases for the client’s Legacy System. Additionally, the API/Integration Developer will perform tasks for and provide support to the Technical Team during the development, implementation, and maintenance and operations phases of the project.

The API/Integration Developer will be responsible for tasks including but not limited to:

• Collaboratively plan, design, implement, and train client staff to operate a continuous integration / delivery/deployment platform, e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab 
• Contribute to the continuous Integration and establishment of best practices pertaining to the application development of DevOps.
• Establish a framework for Application Programming Interface (API) / service-based development by creating and maintaining a technical playbook for client developers based on API, event-driven, and service architecture(s).
• Produce design models to support the development and execution of the implementation plan.
• Develop a strategy for assessing as-is and identifying to-be application architecture in preparation of decoupling and integrating client workflows and business rules into the new architecture.
• Collaboratively plan, design, and implement application privacy and security best practices.
  Provide ability to verify via audit trail the application-level privacy and security technical controls. 
• Develop interface specifications such as architectural documentation and interagency agreement management.
• Perform security monitoring, assessments, and variance management.
• Conduct testing and development as it relates to interfaces meeting set standards and requirements.
• Facilitate defect and incident management similar to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) methodology.
• Conduct system or environment monitoring and reporting for uptime agreements and useful metrics.
• Support the design and implementation of cloud-based solutions.
• Support data governance processes and provide assessments and documentation, as needed.
• Ensure the client team is provided with all necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to maintain client application in related frameworks and provide recommendations for future enhancements and improvements.

Mandatory Experience:

1. Within the last ten (10) years,  must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in electronic data processing systems study, design, and programming on a large and complex IT project.
   Note: A large and complex IT project is defined as having at least $20M in total application development project cost. A solution that has at least one hundred (100) internal end users and one hundred thousand (100,000) external users, and a solution that provides a secure data exchange interface with multiple external systems.
2. Within the last ten (10) years,  at least three (3) years of electronic data processing systems study, design, and programming experience must have been in a lead capacity.
3. Must possess a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. A copy of the degree must be provided upon request. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
4. Within the last ten (10) years, must have at least three (3) years of full-time working experience developing and deploying automated tools for database configuration, monitoring, and performance.
5. Within the last ten (10) years,  must have at least three (3) years of full-time working experience designing and deploying cloud-native (Public, Private and On-premises) solutions using:
   (a) AWS, Azure, or GCP
   (b) CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
6. Within the last ten (10) years, a minimum of five (5) years of hands-on, operational experience with Data integration toolsets and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). 
7. Within the last ten (10) years, a minimum of three (3) years of hands-on, operational experience with NoSQL unstructured database managers in one or any combination(s) from the below list:
   (a) Cassandra
   (b) Hadoop
   (c) MongoDB
8. Must be able to provide a client/user end reference contact information for each applicable project meeting the requirements upon request in the qualification form. In addition, you must be able to submit completed reference forms when requested. Each reference form must be signed by the referenced individual. The reference contact must be a representative of the company for which the project was developed and must have served in a management or supervisory role.

1. Experience with:
   (a) Optimizing application performance and scalability
   (b) Profiling tools and performance tuning
2. Experience working in an Agile environment using tools like Jira and Confluence. Participation in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
3. Experience implementing secure authentication and authorization, securing APIs, and using encryption for data protection.
4. Three (3) years of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)experience.