API Analyst
Description
The Federal Pensions Service is looking for an experienced API Analyst to strengthen the Integration Team. The consultant supports development teams in designing, standardising, managing and further developing APIs and integration solutions. The integration landscape uses ESB technologies including AXWAY and Fuse. The role translates architectural guidelines into concrete and practical API agreements.
The position is an enabling role and explicitly not an API developer role. The API Analyst analyses and documents API needs and helps translate functional and technical requirements into API contracts, specifications and integration agreements. API standards, naming conventions, versioning, error handling, security guidelines and documentation quality are monitored. API governance, reviews, standardisation and reuse are also central to the assignment.
The consultant collaborates with business analysts, functional analysts, development teams, architects, security and operations teams. API designs and integration choices are aligned with enterprise and solution architecture and composable architecture principles. Knowledge sharing, templates and guidelines further support development teams. The assignment therefore contributes to a modular, reusable, secure and manageable application and integration landscape.
Top Reasons to Apply
Architectural API impact
Composable architecture
Cross-functional collaboration
Professionalise API governance
Enable development teams
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Contribute knowledge templates guidelines
- Professionalise Integration Team operations
General skills
- Experience with functional and technical analysis within IT projects or software development.
- Experience with API analysis, API design or integration analysis.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and experience collaborating in or with development teams.
- Strong analytical ability and a structured approach.
- Ability to connect with technical and functional stakeholders for consultation.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to support development teams in expanding their knowledge.
- Customer- and service-oriented working style.
- Results orientation and sense of responsibility.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Ability to apply standards without losing sight of pragmatic project delivery.
- Active knowledge of Dutch.
- Active knowledge of English.
- Active knowledge of French.
- The application must include a presentation or document describing an API or integration environment in which inexperienced development teams were supported with analysing, designing, documenting or standardising APIs; it must clearly state the candidate’s personal role, collaboration with development teams, architects or other stakeholders, and how the APIs fitted within the broader integration and composable architecture.
Technical skills
- Good knowledge of REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of API contracts.
- Good knowledge of JSON.
- Good knowledge of integration principles.
- Knowledge of synchronous and asynchronous communication.
- Knowledge of event-driven integration.
- Knowledge of message queues.
- Knowledge of middleware.
- Knowledge of or experience with ESB environments and insight into the role of APIs within broader integration architectures.
- Knowledge of composable architecture principles and insight into how APIs, services, ESB platforms and integration patterns contribute to a modular, reusable and manageable application landscape.
- Experience with API governance.
- Experience with API lifecycle management.
- Experience with version control.
- Experience with API documentation.
- Experience with service reusability.
- Knowledge of API security.
- Knowledge of secure API design.
Tools
- Good knowledge of OpenAPI/Swagger.
- AXWAY knowledge or experience is preferred.
- Fuse knowledge or experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of OAuth2.
- Knowledge of OpenID Connect.
- Knowledge of JWT.
- Knowledge of certificates.
- Knowledge of access control.