[Remote] API Developer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CMT Services, Inc. supports Federal, State, and Local government agencies with professional services aligned to their missions and strategic goals. The API Developer will support the USDA’s Enterprise Human Capital Modernization & Transformation initiative by designing, developing, and deploying secure RESTful and event-driven APIs, while supporting systems integration, Databricks Lakehouse operations, reliability, versioning, and knowledge transfer.
Responsibilities
- Core Deliverables: Interface development, APIs, integration services, authentication, system connectivity
- Systems Integration Engineering: APIs, integrations, interface design, ICDs, ETL/ELT pipelines, interface remediation, integration testing
- Databricks Lakehouse Support: Lakehouse architecture, security design, common data model, migration framework, reporting and analytics
- Knowledge Transfer: Training, SOPs, workshops, shadowing sessions, documentation, repository management
Skills
- 3 to 5 years of progressive professional experience in API development, systems integration, software development, or a related field
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying RESTful and event-driven APIs supporting enterprise system integration
- Experience developing and maintaining API/service definitions, integration specifications, interface control documents, and data mappings with change control and versioning
- Experience implementing secure authentication, reliability, and versioning for APIs and services consistent with enterprise integration requirements
- Experience supporting end-to-end systems integration, including interface configuration, data exchange modeling, and cross-system workflow coordination
- Experience configuring and supporting inbound and outbound data interfaces with NFC and USDA legacy systems, including legacy-to-modern interface remediation, testing, and validation
- Experience troubleshooting integration issues involving connectivity, data transformation, authentication, and performance, and supporting regression, performance, and failover testing
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Engineering
Benefits
- Remote (Mostly Remote – needs to be able to attend meetings at USDA in DC)
- Training, SOPs, workshops, shadowing sessions, documentation, repository management
- Supportive, collaborative environment
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