IBM DataPower / API Connect Consultant

Company Description 
Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting Services company based in Florida. We provide a wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support. We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT Staffing, Business/IT Strategy, Business Process Blueprints, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Transformation. 
 
Role: IBM DataPower / API Connect Consultant
Location: Reston, VA (Remote  - Required Once in a Month)
Job Type: Contract
 
Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced IBM DataPower / API Connect Consultant to support the design, development, migration, security, and ongoing support of enterprise API platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Lead migration of APIs, Products, Catalogs, Developer Portals, and DataPower configurations from IBM API Connect On-Prem to APIC SaaS.
• Design, develop, test, and publish APIs using IBM API Connect and AWS API Gateway.
• Build secure and scalable hybrid cloud integrations across AWS, IBM APIC, and on-prem systems.
• Implement API governance, security standards, lifecycle management, and best practices.
• Integrate automated API testing into Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines.
• Support production deployments, troubleshooting, incident management, and RCA.
• Monitor API performance and availability using Datadog, analytics, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Work closely with architects, developers, project managers, and business stakeholders.

 
Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with IBM DataPower v10 & IBM API Connect v10.
• Experience with API migration, development, testing, publishing & lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of OpenAPI/YAML 3.0 and OAuth 2.0.
• Jenkins/CI-CD experience.
• Node.js and/or Python for API automation and scripting.
• API security using JWT, OIDC, SSO, RBAC, IAM.
• Experience with API gateways, policies, routing, mediation, and transformations.

 
Lumen Solutions Group Inc is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any legally protected status.