Integration Engineer

The Dairy Farm Company, Limited- ROHQ; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

DFI Retail Group is seeking an Integration Engineer to design, develop, and onboard API endpoints on the API gateway, enabling seamless integration across internal and external systems. You will troubleshoot, monitor, and maintain the API platform to ensure optimal performance.

You will collaborate with IT and business teams to align integrations with requirements, review processes, and support secure, scalable API implementations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field.
• 3+ years in API gateway or integration platform.
• 3+ years designing, developing, and implementing RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• 2+ years programming/scripting in Unix, Batch, Ruby and Python.
• 2+ years in file transfer or workload automation tools.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture and workflow documentation.
• Basic IT security and database knowledge.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Analytical, documentation, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to focus, prioritize tasks, and work in a team.
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare functional/test data and monitor testing activities, including API performance and code optimization.
• Integrate third-party services via APIs using standard methodologies and tools.
• Define design/framework conversions to meet technical requirements and ensure system integration.
• Drive integration strategies with architects aligned to deadlines.
• Collaborate with teams to gather requirements using architecture frameworks.
• Provide expertise in API protocols and building secure, scalable APIs.
• Create and maintain API specifications and documentation.
• Verify/test integration points for support activities and projects.
• Investigate issues and provide root cause analysis.
• Build automated system performance monitoring and generate recurring issue reports.
• Participate in transition and knowledge transfer activities.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

RAML specifications

Dataweave

API Manager

CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven, Bamboo)

Job description

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The Integration Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, configuration, and onboarding of API endpoints on the API gateway, facilitating seamless integration between DFI's internal and external systems. This role also involves troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintaining the API platform to ensure continuous optimal performance.

The Integration Engineer will collaborate with various teams to ensure system integrations align with business requirements, review processes, enhance production service delivery, and ensure compliance with IT strategy, security policies, and guidelines while meeting business timelines.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare functional and test data and monitor and support testing activities which include API performance and code optimization as required

• Integrate 3rd party services through APIs and standard integration methodology and tools to deliver quality results on time, with minimal supervision

• Determine the design and framework conversion of the integration to meet technical requirements, aligned with the business process, and ensure system and hardware integration has met the organization needs

• Define and drive integration strategies and methods with principal and lead architect aligned with the defined deadline using the selected tool and strategy and meeting the specifications required based on scope of work

• Communicate and collaborate with relevant teams to understand requirements using the defined architecture frameworks and guidelines in integration and API implementation aligned with IT strategy

• Provide expertise in API protocols and frameworks in building secured, maintainable, and scalable APIs

• Create and maintain API specification and documentation, document integration processes and create user guides for team use

• Verify and test integration points based on assigned tasks related to support activities and requests, and projects if required

• Carry out investigation and provide initial assessment and root cause analysis to help in collaborative analysis and prevent future issues

• Build an automated system performance monitoring and generate reports on recurring issues to preemptively address potential problems and enhance overall system reliability

• Involved in transition process and knowledge transfer activities that support teams by conducting knowledge-sharing sessions

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Analyze and design the system requirements
• Create RAML specifications as API contracts for development
• Understand and implement Dataweave scripts
• Deploy APIs to Cloudhub, Runtime Fabric, On-prem workers, etc.
• Practice API-Led Connectivity
• Implement basic policies in API Manager
• Create/Manage Basic CI/CD Pipelines (Maven Plugin, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of the Agile Software Development Life Cycle and been exposed to Scrum projects
• Mulesoft Certified Developer Level 1

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Desired skills

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, or a related field
• 3+ years relevant work experience in API gateway or similar integration platform
• 3+ years of experience designing, developing and implementing RESTful or GraphQL API with JSON or XML for systems integration
• 2+ years hands-on experience on programming and scripting using Unix, Batch, Ruby and Python
• 2+ years' experience on file transfer or any Workload automation tool
• Strong knowledge of organizational, software, and implementation blueprints and technical documents focusing on workflow processes, business process analysis
• Basic knowledge of IT security and databases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate and explain technical matters to non-technical project team members
• Excellent analytical, documentation, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to focus and prioritize tasks and work in a team environment
• Cloud (Azure, GCP, or AWS), either one of the identified Cloud Platforms, preferred but not required.

DFI Retail Group is an equal opportunity employer and responsible for ensuring that all personal information collected from each Candidate presented to DFI Retail Group is used for recruitment purposes only and the personal data will be kept and handled confidentially. We will retain the applications of candidates not selected for a period of no more than 24 months. The data collection process is in accordance with all applicable laws and compliant with the Code of Practice on Human Resource Management

To find out more about Our Businesses and Our People, please visit our website: https://www.DFIretailgroup.com