Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.
A Hybrid working model
Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, something we hope will provide everyone much more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 50% of the time for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.
What does an API Integration Specialist do at Hogarth?
The API Integration Specialist will be responsible for integrating partner APIs with our systems, ensuring a seamless and efficient process. This role involves working closely with internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders to align on integration requirements. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation in RESTful APIs, JSON, and API security best practices, and will contribute to documentation, testing, and continuous improvement of the integration process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with partners to understand their API specifications and integrate them with our systems, ensuring smooth and reliable data exchange.
- Act as a technical point of contact between internal teams, partners, and stakeholders to ensure clear and accurate integration requirements.
- Participate in the design, development, and testing of API integrations using tools such as Postman, cURL, Datadog, and Swagger.
- Analyze and troubleshoot API integration issues, ensuring seamless communication between systems.
- Support technical discussions with partners and internal teams to evaluate integration approaches and refine solutions.
- Identify opportunities for improving the integration process through research, validation, and performance optimization.
- Ensure that all API integrations follow industry-standard security best practices, including authentication and encryption.
- Assist in the creation and refinement of technical documentation to ensure clarity for both internal and external users.
- Participate in API testing to validate functionality and reliability.
- Work collaboratively with partner engineering teams and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth execution of integration projects.
Requirements:
- 3+ of experience working with API integrations and testing.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and JSON for seamless data exchange between systems.
- Hands-on experience with API integration tools such as Postman, cURL, Datadog and Swagger.
- In-depth knowledge of API security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical details to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to analyze and troubleshoot API-related issues and ensure a smooth integration process.
- Experience with API testing and validation.
- Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash to automate network tasks.
- Experience in a Linux/Unix Environment.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple integration projects simultaneously.
- Experience supporting technical documentation and refining requirements.
- Familiarity with cloud-based API platforms or microservices architecture is a plus.
- Understanding API performance optimization techniques is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including effective presentation with a dynamic attitude.
The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://www.wpp.com/en/careers/wellbeing/benefits-at-wpp-in-the-us for more details.
Pay Range
$95,000 - $137,893
Diversity & Inclusion
Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.
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What We Do
Born to make the best work, brilliantly.
We combine craft insight and technology to bring your creative work to life.
Hogarth was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 6000 people, across 35 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.
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