Associate Staff Engineer (IBM API Connect) India, India Employee

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking a seasoned IBM integration specialist in India to design, develop, and deploy enterprise integration solutions using ACE and API Connect. The role emphasizes API design, security, and governance across MQ, REST, SOAP, and data formats.

You will collaborate with architects and backend teams to deliver scalable integration solutions, support SIT/UAT, and ensure robust API performance while adhering to enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on integration experience.
• Strong expertise with IBM API Connect, ACE, and MQ.
• Experience in REST, SOAP, XML/XSD/JSON and OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Security experience with OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS.
• Experience with API governance and lifecycle management.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise integration solutions using IBM ACE v12/v13.
• Design, build, publish, and manage REST APIs with IBM API Connect v10/v12.
• Develop integrations using IBM MQ, REST, SOAP, JDBC, ODBC, and other technologies.
• Create and maintain message models with DFDL, XML schemas, JSON.
• Develop transformation and integration logic using ESQL and Java.
• Apply REST architectural principles and develop APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger and YAML specs.
• Configure and implement API policies for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, transformation, and security.
• Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS, and RBAC.
• Integrate APIs with ACE, MQ, microservices, databases, and external applications.
• Define and implement API governance standards, naming conventions, lifecycle practices, and documentation guidelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to message flows, APIs, gateways, connectivity, security, and integration failures.

Skills

IBM API Connect

IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

IBM MQ

REST APIs

OAuth 2.0 / JWT / TLS

OpenAPI / Swagger

ESQL / Java

XML / XSD / JSON

API Governance & Lifecycle

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Job description

• Full-time
• Service Region: South Asia

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at a scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18500+ experts across 39 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

Requirements

• Experience : 4+ years
• Strong hands-on experience with IBM API Connect v10/v12.
• Strong hands-on experience with IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) v12/v13.
• Strong experience with IBM MQ and message-based integration.
• Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP, XML, XSD, and JSON.
• Strong experience with OAuth 2.0, JWT, and TLS security mechanisms.
• Strong knowledge of OpenAPI/Swagger, YAML, JSON, and REST architectural principles.
• Hands-on experience developing message flows and integration solutions using IBM ACE.
• Strong experience with ESQL and good knowledge of Java for integration development.
• Experience developing transformations and working with DFDL, XML schemas, and message models.
• Experience integrating systems using MQ, REST, SOAP, JDBC, ODBC, and other enterprise connectivity mechanisms.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing APIs using IBM API Connect.
• Experience configuring API policies for security, authentication, authorization, throttling, rate limiting, transformation, and traffic management.
• Experience integrating APIs with ACE, MQ, microservices, databases, and external applications.
• Understanding of API governance, lifecycle management, naming conventions, documentation, and enterprise standards.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with experience resolving production issues, gateway errors, security exceptions, connectivity problems, latency, and performance bottlenecks.
• Experience preparing unit test cases, executing unit testing, and fixing defects identified during testing.
• Experience supporting SIT/UAT and resolving integration-related defects.
• Ability to analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable integration solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills with architects, backend teams, development teams, and other technical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API management, messaging, and distributed systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise integration solutions and message flows using IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) v12/v13.
• Design, build, publish, and manage REST APIs using IBM API Connect v10/v12.
• Develop and maintain integrations using IBM MQ, REST APIs, SOAP services, JDBC, ODBC, and other enterprise integration technologies.
• Create and maintain message models using DFDL, XML schemas, XSD, JSON, and related data formats.
• Develop transformation and integration logic using ESQL and Java.
• Apply REST architectural principles and develop APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger and YAML specifications.
• Configure and implement API policies for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, throttling, transformation, and security.
• Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS, and role-based access controls.
• Integrate APIs with backend systems including ACE, IBM MQ, microservices, databases, and external applications.
• Define and implement API governance standards, naming conventions, lifecycle practices, and documentation guidelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to message flows, APIs, gateways, connectivity, security, and integration failures.
• Analyze and optimize message flow and API performance, including latency and throughput improvements.
• Participate in requirements analysis and provide integration architecture and solution design recommendations.
• Collaborate with architects, backend developers, application teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and implement effective integration solutions.
• Develop unit test cases and perform unit testing for integration flows and APIs.
• Support System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cycles and resolve defects identified during testing.
• Prepare and maintain deployment artifacts and support deployment across environments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including mapping sheets, solution designs, API specifications, integration patterns, and operational documentation.
• Support continuous improvement of integration frameworks, reusable components, and enterprise integration standards.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

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