Api Development Specialist

About the job API Development Specialist

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**About the role**
- RFQ Opportunity
- Minimum Australian Citizenship, ideally** Baseline Clearance**:

- 12-month contract (possible extension of 2 times)
- Hybrid Opportunity
- Open to **Canberra, Sydney**, and** Brisbane** locations

**_ Key responsibilities_**

**_ A. _**_Knowledge Acquisition_**
- _Review the current development landscape, tooling and infrastructure used to develop, maintain and operate APIs_, as documented by the Agency, to enable a comprehensive understanding of the as-is environment.
- _Acquire a thorough understanding of the as-is detailed API development processes for the API Gateway_, by reviewing the APIs in production, developer documentation, DevOps build-deployment-automation tools and pipelines, code quality tools and code repositories. An understanding of the monitoring and measurement of API performance and capacity, and associated performance and capacity planning tools will also be required, obtained by reviewing the current modelling, reporting and data gathering tools.
- _Acquire an understanding of API use cases, data models, schemas, security controls, interactions, compositions, orchestrations and other facets_ of the Agencys APIs in production use.
- _ Test and quality assure the current API development processes_ for the API Gateway by developing and deploying a new API leveraging the documentation, tools and processes. Upon completion, deliver written recommendations to address any gaps and deficiencies in the processes or tools.

**B. Development Operating Model and Practices**
- Leveraging the tenderers substantial past performance, experience and proven methodologies, _advise the Agency in relation to its ongoing efforts to establish an operating model and processes to support the partial in-sourcing of API development_ including for design, development, testing, deployment, operation, maintenance and improvement.
- _Advise on contemporary practices, structures and methods for the governance and management competencies_ required for the end-to-end API design, development and operate lifecycle.
- _Continually analyse development practices and implement efficiencies and improvements_ to the software development lifecycle.

**C.**Requirements Development**
- _Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and technical teams_ to capture and translate business requirements into integration and API specifications.
- _Communicate complex business and technical concepts_ clearly to non-technical stakeholders when required.
- _Identify and recommend improvements_ to the way in which requirements are elicited, documented and translated to functional specifications.

**D.** **Integration and API Design and Development**
- _Undertake a range of API transition, development and maintenance activities_, working with Agency Service Providers to progressively, and in accordance with the approved plan, transition the development and maintenance of selected APIs from outsourced responsibility to the Agencys, or its nominated Providers responsibility.
- _Design and define integration patterns _(e.g. REST, SOAP, messaging, event-driven) based on business and technical requirements.
- _Lead end-to-end design and development of integrated API solutions_ using the Agencys tools and platforms complying with Agency, Government and Health Industry standards.
- _Develop and deploy secure, robust APIs and orchestrations_ to agreed specifications across API gateways, cloud services, backend services and external organisations.
- _Ensure high availability, fault tolerance and monitoring_ are incorporated into all integration solutions.
- _Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements_ in all integration designs.
- _Operate confidently across the Agencys diverse range of systems and infrastructure_ layers.
- _Support the transition of APIs and workloads_ between infrastructure environments and Providers.
- Contribute to the development and enforcement of integration governance models, API versioning, and documentation standards.

**E.**Leading, Advising and Educating**
- _Act as a technical leader and evangelist for API development_ and integration initiatives in the context of the Agencys API delivery platforms and capabilities.
- _Lead, educate and train Agency and Service Provider practitioners_ in practical API development processes through hands-on skills transfer, knowledge sharing, development shadowing, process walk-throughs and ad-hoc advisory.
- _Work with Business and IT stakeholders_, advising on improvements in the way requirements are best developed, handed off and iterated across divisional