What are the responsibilities and job description for the API Developer Analyst position at Forest River, Inc.?
Forest River, Inc., the Nation’s largest manufacturer of Recreational Vehicles, Cargo Trailers, Transit Buses and Boats has an immediate opening.
Job Description-
The Forest River Information Technology Service team is growing rapidly and is focused on building a date-driven culture across the organization.
We leverage our business acumen and technical skills to help identify and deliver initiatives fro Ad Hoc or Operational reporting to the development of strategic reporting tools, driving new revenue streams.
Whats in it for you?
We are seeking an API Developer Analyst to enhance our expanding Development/Business Analytics team by participating in all phases of our application and service release lifecycle, which incorporates the DEVOPs methodology of communication, collaboration, and integration.
Development engineers and analysts are responsible for designing, implementing, and providing ongoing support for the production services, applications, and platform components that make up our internal and SaaS API gateway implementation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply your technical skills in systems management, software development, and database management to offer best-practice guidance and support for API Management technology.
An ideal candidate for this role will utilize proven communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and knowledge of best practices to further enhance our development and analytical capabilities.
Forest River offers a stable work environment that is fast paced. Our employees enjoy a highly competitive Wage and Benefit Package. We are looking for dedicated individuals with experience in the Industry as well as other Manufacturing Processes.
Job Description-
The Forest River Information Technology Service team is growing rapidly and is focused on building a date-driven culture across the organization.
We leverage our business acumen and technical skills to help identify and deliver initiatives fro Ad Hoc or Operational reporting to the development of strategic reporting tools, driving new revenue streams.
Whats in it for you?
- Have a hand in building and growing our expanding Development and Business Intelligence teams
- Work in a supportive, fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and innovative workplace
- Leverage your deep experience to help develop and coach the team and build our capabilities
- Opportunity to shape development and best practices for our Development and Business Analytics initiatives
- Grown business knowledge by working with leadership across all aspects of Forest River's business
We are seeking an API Developer Analyst to enhance our expanding Development/Business Analytics team by participating in all phases of our application and service release lifecycle, which incorporates the DEVOPs methodology of communication, collaboration, and integration.
Development engineers and analysts are responsible for designing, implementing, and providing ongoing support for the production services, applications, and platform components that make up our internal and SaaS API gateway implementation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply your technical skills in systems management, software development, and database management to offer best-practice guidance and support for API Management technology.
An ideal candidate for this role will utilize proven communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and knowledge of best practices to further enhance our development and analytical capabilities.
- Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to design and implement scalable and high-performance solutions for our platform as a service and internal management tools.
- Driver automation of application deployment for production and pre-release environments.
- Define monitoring requirements and implement automated incident resolution solutions.
- Design, implement, and manage continuous integration, build management, and deployment scripts and systems.
- Able to understand client requirements and communicate technical solutions to customers, SMEs and architects.
- Provide troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services.
- Quickly and efficiently troubleshoot simple and complex issues to provide outstanding support for internal service level objectives.
- Identify areas for process and efficiency improvement within information Technology Services; recommend solutions and assist in overseeing implementation. Actively facilitate continuous improvement and collaboration with the Sales and Marketing teams.
- Ensure all necessary operational processes and procedures are carried out with a high level of attention to detail, expediency, and on-time delivery.
- Define and document standard run books and operating procedures. Create and maintain system information and architecture diagrams.
- Monitor various systems capacity and health indicators and trends; provide analytics & forecast for added or reduced capacity as required.
- Bachelor's degree in business/computer science or similar
- At least 5 years of experience in IT industry (preferably in the integration domain)
- Experience with microservices and Open APIs, Restful Web Services, or APIs
- Knowledge of basic authentication and OAuth configurations is needed
- Experience with SOAP and/or REST-based We services
- Writing Open API spec and knowledge of smart docs and onboarding APIs to the developer portal
- Experience with relational databases around schema design, stored procedures, and query optimization
- Dependable transportation - Required (Business-related mileage is reimbursed)
- Smartphone for Dept. communications - Required
Forest River offers a stable work environment that is fast paced. Our employees enjoy a highly competitive Wage and Benefit Package. We are looking for dedicated individuals with experience in the Industry as well as other Manufacturing Processes.