API Developer

Job Title : API Developer

Location : Remote

Job Type : Contract

Responsibilities :

• Experienced Enterprise Architect with 17+ years experience in designing and delivering large-scale Enterprise
• Application integration and modernization solutions across Banking and Insurance domains.
• Proven expertise in API-led architecture, SOA, event-driven architectures, and agile integration methodologies, with
• strong knowledge of leading-edge technologies including MuleSoft, AWS Gateway, Azure API Management, Spring
• Boot, Node.js, API gateway(IBM APIConnect (APIC)) and Kafka.
• Deep expertise in cloud (AWS, Azure) across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS; supports cloud strategy and adoption
• Driving the architecture of serverless, microservices, and SOA-based applications
• Lead Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Enterprise Solution Review Board, ensuring compliance
• and consistency in solution designs.
• Proven in successful enablement of Enterprise platforms for large-scale Banks (Maybank) and Insurance (Etiqa)
• organizations across ASEAN and U.S. markets on tech stacks on REST, microservices.
• Extensive experiences on multiple Core banking(IBM Mainframe, SIBS, ICBA) systems integrations and protocols(MQ,
• CICS Bridge, CICS plex, Rest, VSAM), formats(Fixed width, CSV, JSON).
• Designed and implemented enterprise-wide API strategy and reusable service layers across 758 Applications and 32
• business platforms, accelerating time to market by 30%.
• Expertise in leading 60+ onsite and offshore teams across Asian (MY, SG, ID, HK, KH, PH), US Regions and providing
• robust and scalable application integration solutions and responsible for delivering solutions with faster time to
• market.
• Deep expertise in API-first design, cloud-native platforms enablement, and product-centric development, with
• strong command over API gateways, ESBs, and hybrid cloud(AWS,Azure) architectures.
• Enabled IBM API connect on hybrid cloud environments supporting ASEAN and US markets
• Designed and led an API aggregation layer in Spring Boot that unified 12 SoRs behind a single contract, cutting client
• calls by 65% and improving latency by 38%.
• Experienced in designed and driving full stack projects for customer onboarding platform using MEAN framework.
• Enabled multi-lingual customer screens across Maybank Group.
• Built Node.js BFF services to compose data from REST and Pub / Sub, adding idempotency keys and circuit breakers to
• reduce incident rate by 30%.
• Embracing customer experience with Omni-channel experience by enabling unified screen flow between mobile and
• web screen rendering using polyglot technologies like React, Angula.
• Instituted engineering rigor : coding standards, contract testing (Pact), API style guide, linting / static analysis,
• SLOs / SLIs, and runbooks, cutting MTTR from 90 25 minutes.
• Managed API Gateway proxy policies (OAuth2, spike arrest, quota, JWT verification) and developer portal onboarding,
• enabling 20+ partner apps with consistent SLAs.
• Implemented BDD with Cucumber; authored >

200 Gherkin scenarios tied to Cloud Build, lifting regression coverage

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