Senior API Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION

What can you expect?
Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With 70,000+ employees in 29 countries, Adient operates more than 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual foam, trim and metal components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, visit www.adient.com.
At Adient, we are proud to offer hybrid working to our employees, which involves being able to work remotely for up to 3 days per week based on the agreement within specific department.
What will your responsibilities be?

• Leads API development activities and ensures quality through:
  • Functional requirement reviews and signoff
  • Impact analysis documentation
  • Solution architecture options and cost analysis preparation
  • Technical design reviews and signoff
  • Unit test plan reviews and signoff
• Acts as SME for API platforms and interfaces with external applications, contributing to:
  • API development design and deliverables
  • Production support analysis for critical and complex issues
• Collaborates with application teams to provide insights on functional and technical design activities. Drives high-quality specifications and requirements.
• Leads proof of concept (POC) initiatives and technical roadmap activities, ensuring new developments align with platform strategy.
• Aligns API development efforts with Enterprise Architecture (EA) direction through close collaboration.
• Prepares and presents API solution proposals with multiple implementation options to IT Governance and Strategy teams when requirements involve:
  • Change in System Architecture
  • Change in API based integrations to external/internal and cloud-based applications
• Keeps current with API management, gateway technologies, APIGEE, and integration best practices.
• Executes POCs, documents outcomes, and drives implementation and standardization within API integration.
• Looks for cost saving / quality improvement opportunities
• Provides multiple solutions to business problems, analyzes each option, highlights pros and cons, and recommends the best approach.
• Presents the potential solutions / enhancements to both technical and nontechnical audiences

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and able to communicate complex scenarios with both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Able to lead initiatives from idea to production implementation
• Able to understand and digest complex. multi-tier, integrated software systems
• Able to think critically under pressure
• Actively listens to customer and application teams, identifies the problem, and implements a solution
• Able to decompose complex systems to facilitate communication, trouble shooting, and impact analysis
• Demonstrate passion for process standardization and IT excellence
• 2 to 4 years of API /Proxy design, development, management and microservices experience
• 1 to 3 years of Java, Java script and Python
• 1 to 3 years of experience with Azure/AWS, Kubernetes, Logic apps, Cloud Monitoring tools
• Eager to learn and conduct proof of concepts with new technologies

Which benefits do we offer?

• Base monthly salary starting from 3000 EUR gross. Our salary is fair and competitive and can be higher than the starting minimum in the advert
• 13th salary
• Language and proficiency courses
• Meal vouchers - 7€ (fully paid by employer)
• Flexible working hours, possibility to work remotely including days from abroad
• Extra holiday entitlement
• Inclusive allowance scheme including Health support allowance, Jubilee allowance, Housing allowance
• Referral bonus
• Employee Assistance Program "Felix"
• Volunteer days
• Active life with colleagues, full of various sports activities
• Various CSR Activities
• Modern relax areas, play room
• Coffee and tea at the workplace

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.
We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Kristián Psotný on +421257271162.

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