Professional, API Architect

MVP Health Care • Schenectady, NY

3d

About The Position

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Health Care At MVP Health Care, we’re on a mission to create a healthier future for everyone. That means embracing innovation, championing equity, and continuously improving how we serve our communities. Our team is powered by people who are curious, humble, and committed to making a difference—every interaction, every day. We’ve been putting people first for over 40 years, offering high-quality health plans across New York and Vermont and partnering with forward-thinking organizations to deliver more personalized, equitable, and accessible care. As a not-for-profit, we invest in what matters most: our customers, our communities, and our team. What’s in it for you: Growth opportunities to uplevel your career A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits focused on well-being An opportunity to shape the future of health care by joining a team recognized as a Best Place to Work For in the NY Capital District, one of the Best Companies to Work For in New York, and an Inclusive Workplace. You’ll contribute to our humble pursuit of excellence by bringing curiosity to spark innovation, humility to collaborate as a team, and a deep commitment to being the difference for our customers. Your role will reflect our shared goal of enhancing health care delivery and building healthier, more vibrant communities. Who We Are: We are continually evolving the way MVP uses technology to grow our business, transforming the organization through Cloud Computing, Agile Delivery, and DevOps. If you’re an IT Professional looking for exponential career growth and development, you are going to love working here! Our API management team will work closely across our product development scrum teams, solution architects, security team and the business to build scalable, reusable, secure and loosely coupled API suites with a focus on innovation, high reliability and best practices. This team is tasked with ensuring our engineers are equipped to utilize and implement API related code using an API first mentality and that best practices and standards are defined and followed by the teams implementing it. Using our core values of curiosity, humility and striving to be the difference for our customers, we have a responsibility to mentor product team engineers to follow the design principles that we define as well as being focused on emerging technology and concepts that will allow us to scale. Who You Are: Empowered to create a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement Great communicator who can influence and mentor other engineers Loves to stay on top of cutting-edge technology Likes a mix of hands-on development work as well as leading and mentoring other developers Is excited by the idea of redefining our API approach and how we can improve it What You’ll Do: Play a major part in creating, evolving, and supporting API governance processes and best practices, guidelines and standards Advise and mentor scrum teams on the API approach, architecture and standards Assist and be hands-on with enterprise API modeling and design Assist in the implementation of API development Keep an eye towards the future through researching new and innovative solutions and emerging technologies Drive KPIs for adoption to API management policies Drive adoption of API architecture, design, best practices within multiple scrum teams What You’ll Need: Even if you don’t have every requirement filled but think you are a great fit for this role we would love to hear from you.

Requirements

• 6+ years in developing and integrating API/Restful web services using C#
• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure or other cloud service platform solutions
• Deep understanding of cloud native API services and microservices architecture with experience in design, build, and operations in a production cloud environment
• Demonstrated experience leading teams on API architecture initiatives
• Demonstrated experience designing API architecture with modern security, testing and documentation principles and best practices
• Extensive experience with RESTful services and API development design patterns
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience with Visual Studio/Visual Code
• Knowledge of unit testing, integration testing and code tuning.
• Experience with API management (APIM) and Gateway tools and best practices
• Experience with distributed source code control (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Experience with agile software development suite of tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.)
• Proficiency with relational databases including writing stored procedures and queries
• Exhibit the desire to lead and mentor other developers on and across teams.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written
• Self-starter with aptitude and hunger for learning new technologies
• Experience working in a team environment
• C#/.net core
• JSON, REST
• SQL
• GIT

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of the healthcare industry is a plus!
• API Management tools (Bonus points for Azure API Management)
• GraphQL
• Microservices
• Swagger
• Azure
• Kubernities/containers
• API Gateway tools

Responsibilities

• Play a major part in creating, evolving, and supporting API governance processes and best practices, guidelines and standards
• Advise and mentor scrum teams on the API approach, architecture and standards
• Assist and be hands-on with enterprise API modeling and design
• Assist in the implementation of API development
• Keep an eye towards the future through researching new and innovative solutions and emerging technologies
• Drive KPIs for adoption to API management policies
• Drive adoption of API architecture, design, best practices within multiple scrum teams

Benefits

• Growth opportunities to uplevel your career
• A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits focused on well-being
• An opportunity to shape the future of health care by joining a team recognized as a Best Place to Work For in the NY Capital District, one of the Best Companies to Work For in New York, and an Inclusive Workplace.
• Pay Transparency

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed