Senior Apigee Engineer

Ready to help us transform healthcare? Bring your true colors to blue.

Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.

What We Need

At BCBSMA, we have a unique opportunity to work within the Integration and Interoperability Team as a Senior Apigee Engineer.

You will set guardrails, patterns and framework for other IIT & federated API development teams to follow as well as provide needed governance and audit to make sure it is followed.

You will work with stakeholders, engineers, and subject matter experts to analyze, design, build and implement API proxies, back-end services and their policies, provide developer portal access for the APIs within the organization and external app developers.

You will work with the DevSecOps team to automate the framework. You will own the APIGee platform and be the "go-to" person for all the APIGee needs.

The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment and enable the team to deliver and improve on the product quickly.

Your Day to Day

• Architecture responsibilities :
• Actively participate in technical design discussions and help to finalize the decision making with Senior Leadership team.
• Understand the business mission, strategy, and processes of the service consumer applications along with service team strategy and provide implementation solutions using existing patterns, guidelines, and framework.
• Ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly.
• Reviews and ensures major implementation approach are consistent, maintainable, and flexible.
• Leadership responsibilities :
• Provides coaching and direction to other resources by coordinating analysis and development.
• Develops and manages effective collaborative relationships with other departments, groups, peers, and subordinates.
• Facilitates cross-team / train learnings, communication, and alignment.
• API Life cycle management responsibilities :
• Capable of API delivery end to end which includes Planning, Design, Development, Testing, and Delivery of API(s).
• Own creation and deployment of API led design strategy, API usage framework, and project team API enablement guidance as a core member of the service delivery team.
• Effectively communicates project expectations, issues, risks, and decisions to project team and business stakeholder related to API implementation.
• Development responsibilities :
• Creating and maintaining proxies, policies, and dev portal products in Apigee.
• Designs, Develop and prototypes cloud deployed, and DevOps enabled scalable solutions to business problems in alignment with the architecture direction and standards.
• Lead teams in building new API's, working closely with requirements analysts, developers, testers, and the customer in an agile development practice.
• Implement common APIs based on architecture guidelines and framework related to logging, authentication, security, error recovery etc.
• Working with DevSecOps to create / update an automated way to deploy APIs.

We're Looking for

Education and Experience :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Technology, or related field preferred.
• 3-5 years of technology, preferably in Digital or Analytics, with adequate functional and development experience.
• 2-4 years Apigee API management experience.

Tools Experience :

• Full-Stack Engineering vision : ability to leverage breadth of experience and knowledge to architect and design solutions.
• Strong delivery experience with AWS and / or Google Cloud, API gateway - Apigee.
• Knowledge about API design standards, patterns, and best-practices especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0, REST, SOAP, MQ, JDBC, X.

12, JSON, Microservices etc.

Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API security standards and implementation (Active Directory Federation, LDAP, OAuth 2.

0, JWT, OpenID, SAML, ClientID / Secret).

• Knowledge and experience with CI / CD tools Jenkins, Maven, Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub / GitLab, Release Management.
• JavaScript (NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, Ionic), HTML5, CSS3.
• Use of containerization technologies such as Tanzu application platform.
• Experience in Java and spring (Boot, Data, Cloud etc.).

Work Experience :

• Strong coding skills, problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Experience in using Apigee Edge and Micro-gateway for development of API proxies.
• Strong knowledge of the Apigee component architecture.
• Expertise designing, developing, and converting web services between formats like SOAP and REST using Apigee.
• Experience building and deploying Apigee Development Portals.
• Experience generating custom Analytical Reports.
• Experience in security, analytics, caching, throttling, logging in Apigee.
• Experience in HealthCare industry is plus.

Collaboration Experience :

Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean Startup, XP) and cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, Business Analysts).

It is our mission at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to foster a culture that enables associates to do their best work while living happy and healthy lives.

That's why we offer you a variety of ways to support your best physical, emotional, financial, and social well-being. For more information on our benefit offerings, visit our benefits page.

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Minimum Education Requirements :

High school degree or equivalent required unless otherwise noted above.

Location : Boston

Time Type : Full time

Salary Range : $122,760.00 - $150,040.00

The job posting range is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.

We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs and affordability.

This job is also eligible for variable pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical / dental / vision insurance, 401(k), and a suite of well-being benefits to eligible employees.

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.

WHY Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA?

We understand that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can prevent amazing candidates coming our way, so please don't hesitate to apply.

We'd love to hear from you. You might be just what we need for this role or possibly another one at Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA.

The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be brilliant.

We encourage you to bring us your true colors, your perspectives, and your experiences. It's in our differences that we will remain relentless in our pursuit to transform healthcare for ALL.

As an employer, we are committed to investing in your development and providing the necessary resources to enable your success.

Learn how we are dedicated to creating an inclusive and rewarding workplace that promotes excellence and provides opportunities for employees to forge their unique career path by visiting our Company Culture page.

If this sounds like something you'd like to be a part of, we'd love to hear from you. You can also join our Talent Community to stay "in the know" on all things Blue.

At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, we believe in wellness and that work / life balance is a key part of associate wellbeing.

For more information on how we work and support that work / life balance visit our "How We Work" Page.

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