Role Summary
We are looking for a talented and forward-thinking engineer to join the our delivery team— Experian's cutting-edge API platform that bridges data intelligence with OpenAI-powered capabilities. Ascend DataHub enables clients and internal teams to seamlessly access, consume, and derive insights from data assets through well-designed APIs.
You will play a key role in designing, building, and evolving the API platform and ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable data delivery to clients.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing, developing, and maintaining robust, scalable RESTful APIs that serve as the primary data access layer for clients.
- Deploying and scaling API services on AWS, leveraging cloud-native tools to ensure high availability and performance
- Implementing API security best practices — authentication, authorisation, rate limiting, and data privacy controls aligned to PDPA/GDPR
- Developing and maintaining end-to-end data workflows that ensure timely, accurate, and secure delivery of data assets to clients and internal consumers
- Participate in the research, design, development, integration, testing and deployment of software application.
- Conducts technical analysis and design of application module & database.
- Ensure developed modules comply with established architecture standards, coding standards and quality requirement.
- Participate in client meetings, requirement gathering sessions, solution reviews and technical workshops to support project delivery and system integration.
What We're Looking For
- At least 6 years of experience in software development, system design and application support.
- Strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and integrating RESTful APIs following OpenAPI Specification and web services, including REST, SOAP, JSON, and JWT-based authentication.
- Familiarity with API gateway tools.
- Experience with software development, integration, testing, and deployment practices.
- Experience with cloud platforms.
- Experience in .NET (C#) and ASP.NET Core, particularly in developing REST APIs, is preferred.
- Additional experience with PHP, Java, Python, MySQL, Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery would be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of data governance, data security, and privacy best practices.
- Experience troubleshooting application, data, integration, and performance issues.
- Experience with CodeIgniter, and MVC architecture
- Good understanding of Agile, SCRUM, SDLC and software design concepts.