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Integrated Resources Inc.

API Analyst

Integrated Resources Inc., Seattle, Washington, us, 98127


IRI believes in commitment, integrity and strategic workforce solutions.Integrated Resources, Inc., is led by a seasoned team with combined decades in the industry. We deliver strategic workforce solutions that help you manage your talent and business more efficiently and effectively. Since launching in 1996, IRI has attracted, assembled and retained key employees who are experts in their fields. This has helped us expand into new sectors and steadily grow.We’ve stayed true to our focus of finding qualified and experienced professionals in our specialty areas. Our partner-employers know that they can rely on us to find the right match between their needs and the abilities of our top-tier candidates. By continually exceeding their expectations, we have built successful ongoing partnerships that help us stay true to our commitments of performance and integrity.Our team works hard to deliver a tailored approach for each and every client, critical in matching the right employers with the right candidates. We forge partnerships that are meant for the long term and align skills and cultures. At IRI, we know that our success is directly tied to our clients’ success.Job Description

Position: API AnalystDuration: 6-12 monthsLocation: Seattle, WAW2 and C2C okSeeking an experienced and highly motivated candidate responsible to work with multiple teams within the organization and outside of it, in order to drive consistency, best practices and efficient integration architecture. Someone who has spent time being a functional analyst within a Web API team that delivers external-facing APIs for different applications. The API analyst will be involved in Joint Application Design (JADs) meetings, architecture discussions and various other high-level design meetings. Will also maintain current standards (some of which have already been developed) and build additional best practices documentation as needed.Project Background:This is a long-term position, so someone local to Seattle or able to move here is needed. The company in question has just begun a SOA journey where multiple teams responsible for front-end and back-end systems are building out SOA APIs to their systems.Skills Required:Sound understanding of data modeling, including relational and non-relational sourcesSound understanding of XML, XSDs, and various messaging patterns utilizing XMLSound understanding of JSON, how and when it is preferable to XML messagingSound understanding of RESTful services, with regard to:Resource-based API modeling across enterprise systemsHTTP methods and how they map to CRUD functionalityHTTP error codes and how they can be standardized and used in APIsAPI versioning mechanisms and ways to ensure backward compatibilityAPI security mechanisms, their relative strengths and weaknesses in an enterprise backgroundAbility to document and present best practices to various teams and stakeholdersTo be proactive with excellent written and verbal communication skills.Sound understanding of integration analysis backgroundAbility to connect with people, empathize with their problems, and at the same time with clarity and focus gently steer them into practices that will ensure a consistent enterprise API model.

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