API Developer

About the role

CMT Services, Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone and WOSB supporting federal, state and local government agencies, is hiring an API Developer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Enterprise Human Capital Modernization and Transformation initiative. The position is mostly remote but requires attending meetings at the USDA in Washington, DC, and runs for one year with one option year.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy RESTful and event-driven APIs, implement secure authentication, ensure reliability and versioning, and support enterprise integration standards.
• Build systems integration work: APIs, integrations, interface design, ICDs, ETL/ELT pipelines, interface remediation and integration testing.
• Support Databricks lakehouse architecture, security design, common data model, migration framework and reporting and analytics.
• Deliver knowledge transfer through training, SOPs, workshops, shadowing sessions, documentation and repository management.

Required profile

• 3 to 5 years of progressive experience in API development, systems integration, software development or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology or Computer Engineering.

Required skills

• RESTful and event-driven API design, development and deployment.
• Maintaining API definitions, integration specifications, interface control documents and data mappings with versioning.
• Implementing secure authentication, reliability and versioning for APIs.
• End-to-end systems integration, including interface configuration, data exchange modeling and cross-system workflows.
• Inbound and outbound interface configuration with legacy systems, including remediation, testing and validation.
• Troubleshooting integration issues and supporting regression, performance and failover testing.