Senior API Integration Developer

Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We're crucial to the company's strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market. Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole. Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The Team
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior API Integration Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in developing and managing API integrations, ensuring seamless data flow between systems. This role will be crucial in supporting our data fabric and data mesh hybrid data foundation.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior API Integration Developer with a strong background in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a passion for building intelligent, scalable API ecosystems. This role focuses on designing and implementing AI-enhanced API integrations using Apigee, Swagger/OpenAPI, and GCP-native services, with a working familiarity with Agent Space, Agent Garden, and agentic AI workflows is a plus.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, develop, and manage secure, scalable APIs using Apigee and Swagger/OpenAPI within the GCP ecosystem.
• Collaborate with AI and data teams to integrate APIs with intelligent workflows and services.
• Implement API security, rate limiting, and monitoring using GCP-native tools.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for API deployment and lifecycle management.
• Optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability across cloud-native environments.
• Document API specifications and maintain version control using OpenAPI standards.
• Apply familiarity with Agent Space, Agent Garden, and agentic AI patterns to support future-ready API designs.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in API development and integration, with a strong focus on GCP-native tools.
• Proficiency in Apigee, Swagger/OpenAPI, and Postman.
• Strong understanding of RESTful and SOAP APIs, API security (OAuth2, JWT), and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Python, or JavaScript for API development and scripting.
• Familiarity with Agent Space, Agent Garden, and agentic AI orchestration is nice to have.
• Prior experience with SnapLogic or similar iPaaS platforms is a plus.
• Experience creating APIs on Graph Databases (e.g., Neo4j, Google Cloud Datastore).
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating AI/ML models via APIs on GCP.
• Familiarity with GCP services like Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Cloud Endpoints.
• Knowledge of observability tools like Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Loggi

About Us
We're a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We're curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you're not just another employee; you're part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic.
Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.