AVP, API Engagement Engineer

Synchrony is a leading financial services company that offers flexible working options. They are seeking an API Engagement Engineer who will advocate for application and service development teams, provide best practices for REST API development, and manage multiple teams in complex application implementations.

Responsibilities:

• The API Engagement Engineer will be responsible for teaching teams to utilize our new suite of API development tools
• The API Engagement Engineer will provide architectural guidance for API & Application development across Synchrony, helping teams understand how to leverage the API Gateway to their benefit and promote best practices for Microservice/SOA application development
• The API Engagement Engineer lives and breathes REST best practices and serves as the source of knowledge for RESTful API development
• Additionally, the API Engineer will be responsible for learning Synchrony’s domains and assisting teams to promote their APIs to the level of Enterprise & Productize APIs for wide market consumption
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related degree with 3-5 years of Modern Application Development experience or, in lieu of degree, 5-7 years of Modern Application Development experience
• 3+ years in API development using Apigee (preferred) or any other similar API Gateway Product
• Strong Technical Expertise in Java Spring, Node JS, REST, SOAP, Swagger Hub (JSON/YAML)
• Strong Experience with Agile application development and familiarity with tools like JIRA, Bitbucket
• Strong Experience with continuous integration environments and using tools like Jenkins
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical peers
• Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly across a matrix organization
• Strong attention to detail in a team environment
• Strong oral and written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to analyze, use structured problem solving and available tools to troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, action plans, impact and resolution options
• Passionate to learn and understand diversified business domains and technologies
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and frameworks
• You must be 18 years or older
• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent
• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process
• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders
• Architectural knowledge of application development in a Microservice environment
• DevOps Process Fundamentals
• Advocate for technology best practices
• Strong working knowledge of the Financial Industry and Consumer Lending