System Analyst in the EU

The customer: financial firm, part of intl group, offers banking/digital solutions to retail & business clients via branches & online.

The project: architecture roadmap for digital transformation: target design, modernization, APIs, security, data, decoupling, phased migration to cut dependencies & speed up dev.

Responsibilities:

• Defining the target Azure API Management architecture and its integration with AKS, Camunda, backend services and on-premises systems.
• Setting up and configure APIM environments, APIs, products, subscriptions, backends, routing, certificates, private connectivity and identity integrations.
• Designing and implementing reusable APIM policies.
• Establishing API governance standards covering OpenAPI specifications, naming conventions, versioning, API catalogue, ownership, consumer onboarding and deprecation.
• Supporting the end-to-end implementation of Cash Loan APIs, working closely with architects, Camunda, DevOps, Security, integration teams and backend developers.
• Preparing technical documentation, reusable templates and operational runbooks, and providing knowledge transfer to the client’s internal teams.

Requirements:

• Experience as a System Analyst for 4+ years.
• Proven experience designing, implementing and operating Azure APIM in enterprise environments.
• REST APIs, HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, certificates and API security.
• Experience configuring APIM policies, products, subscriptions, gateways, networking and access controls.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates.
• Experience implementing APIM deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or an equivalent CI/CD platform.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, networking, identity, monitoring and Azure Key Vault.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Application Insights and API troubleshooting.
• Ability to create standards, operational documentation, runbooks and reusable implementation patterns.
• Previous experience leading technical implementation and training or mentoring an internal team.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with AKS, Kubernetes, Helm and APIM self-hosted gateways.
• AWS or hybrid-cloud experience.
• Experience with Ansible, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana or ELK.
• Familiarity with SonarQube, Snyk, Trivy or Checkmarx.
• Basic experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.