Location: Mexico City

Work Mode: Hybrid (1-2 days at the office) | Monday to Friday | 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Office Address: Av. Insurgentes Sur 1458, Actipan, Benito Juárez, 03230 Ciudad de México, CDMX

Project Duration: 6 months with possible extension to 12 months

Contract Type: Full-time

Target Start Date: Immediate (1st september)

Role: API Designer

City: Mexico City | Country: Mexico

Role Overview

Requirements analysis and understanding with business and IT areas: Understanding use cases, dependencies, NFRs, and success criteria. Mapping projects within the organization's ecosystem: Understanding domains, source/target systems, involved teams, and future API usage. Designing low-level design focused on components/APIs: Required under an API-First approach and using API-Led as the integration methodology.

Defining design patterns: Understanding key concepts such as versioning, pagination, error modeling, idempotence, limits, etc.

Ensuring API security mechanisms: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, etc., and authorization guidelines.

Must-Have Skills:

1. API Design: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and Swagger/RAML contracts (hands-on). API First, API Led, and basic DDD. REST API design standards.
2. Security: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, API keys,



mTLS, scopes.
3. Modeling/Diagrams: UML (Context, components, and sequences). Draw.io and/or Visio.
4. API Governance: Lifecycle, validation, contract review, API catalogs.
5. API Management Platforms: Proxy concepts, policies, environments.
6. Tools: Draw.io, Confluence, Office 365

Desirable Knowledge

- GraphQL and Async APIs.
- Observational APIs (logging, metrics, etc.).
- Apigee as an API Management tool.
- Experience with API portals/catalogs and marketplaces.

Experience

- 5-8 years in API design and integrations
- 2+ years working with API Management platforms.

Soft Skills

- Consultative profile: Ability to facilitate business and IT collaboration
- Technical Thinking: Understands the big picture and can get down to technical detail when required.
- Clear communication: Turn requirements into artifacts and next steps.
- Product orientation: Pragmatic, avoids over-engineering, understands the business at a high level.
- Collaboration: Experience working with multidisciplinary teams
- Analytical skills (conceptual power)
- Working under pressure and stress management

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