Integration & APIM COE Developer

Basic Function

Candidate will design and develop interfaces for the application – application, application – business integrations for LYB. The role will require collaboration with business, product team analysts, technical and solution architects, vendors, and development teams. The developer will need to work with a globally distributed team.
 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Detail out the design of interfaces, and develop these integrations accordingly.
• Develop the interfaces according to LYB integration and SecDevOps standards.
• Collaborate with product teams, architects, and COE teams to design, develop, maintain and manage integration solutions.
• Collaborate with application vendors, service providers, trading partners and their technical resources to successfully deliver and maintain interfaces
• Establish and ensure development policies, standards, and guidelines for application development, change management and support to ensure quality, consistency, and reliability
• Evaluate industry standards and technologies informed on new tools and best practices of the industry
• Work with the technology partners to collect roadmap information and contribute to enterprise strategy development and planning. 
• Monitor and debugging of production systems and work to continuously improve availability, performance, and quality.

Areas of Expertise:

• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure Platform
• Experience with building and supporting scalable architectures, such as microservices frameworks, API management, serverless technologies (e.g., Azure Functions), container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), etc. 
• Experience with software development practices including SecDevOps and Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) tool chains (e.g., GitHub, Azure for DevOps, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Chef, Puppet) 
• Experience with design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, application security
• Experience in A2A and B2B integrations
• Experience managing delivery through remote teams and AMS partners
• Experience in one of the following core languages: . NET Core, C#

Min. Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in related field, e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering, or equivalent certifications demonstrating understanding
• 4+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines including technical architecture, application development, middleware, database management or operations 
• 4+ years of experience in the full application development lifecycle (i.e., requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, build, installation, documentation, and code management).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with at least one major Integration platform
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with at least one of a major Cloud platform, solutions, services, and products, demonstrating functional knowledge and technical understanding of cloud computing services and success implementing 3rd party integrations
• Ability to build and support solutions to fit working with SecDevOps (or DevSecOps).
• Excellent and professional communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to articulate complex topics in a clear and concise manner
• Development of Web services, REST APIs, CPI, APIM, Event Mesh 
• API Development & Life Cycle Management 
• Groovy Scripting 
• Technologies and protocols (REST, ODATA, SOAP, XML, JSON, Message queues, Identity management, SAML, OAUTH)
• ALE/IDOC experience working with standard, extended, and custom IDOCS
• Experience with HTML/XML/WSDL/XSD, JSON, BADI, BAPI 
• Experience with Web technologies (XML, REST, HTTP, HTTPS, Web Services and Certificate ) 
• Download, install, configure standard integration packages
• Develop real time and asynchronous systems integrations

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of trading partner onboarding process
• Knowledge of SAP integration, ALE/EDI, IDOC/BAPI/RFC
• Knowledge of integration tools such as SAP PO / CPI / BTP platforms
• Knowledge of ANSI X12 and EDIFACT standards
• .NET Core, C#, Entity Framework, Web API, REST APIs, Swagger / OPEN API, ODATA
• Azure API Management, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, App Services, Blob Storage, Key-Vault
• Azure SQL (PaaS), Stored Procedures, User Defined Functions, XSLT / Liquid maps, Schemas
• Developer tools such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, Postman, SOAPUI, Azure Dev Ops - Pipelines, Releases, Boards, Sprints, Testing

Competencies