CDAO Advana - API Specialist

Join GDIT and be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the world's most complex technical challenges. The CDAO Advana team is seeking an API Specialist to join their efforts in the DC area.

Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoD military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.

This is a proposal with award expected June 2026. If interested, please apply as we are interviewing and making contingent offers now.

Duties include:

• API Specialist SME (C.5.2) - Develops and governs enterprise API strategies and technical standards supporting Advana interoperability across Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS enclaves. Designs API architectures that standardize interface specifications, message schemas, routing patterns, mediation workflows, versioning practices, and service-level behaviors for mission data exchange across Combatant Commands, Joint Staff elements, and federal mission partners.
• Leads API lifecycle processes from design and development through onboarding, testing, deployment, operational monitoring, and retirement, using platforms such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, and Google Cloud API Gateway.
• Implements API governance frameworks incorporating authentication and authorization models, certificate management, schema validation, throttling controls, and continuous compliance checks driven by security policies and enterprise reference designs.
• Conducts performance optimization for high-volume APIs by applying caching strategies, policy tuning, traffic shaping, and analytics-based capacity planning.
• Develops developer portals, technical documentation, interface contracts, onboarding guides, and reusable templates that strengthen consistency and accelerate adoption across distributed engineering teams.
• Provides technical leadership for large-scale integration efforts, coordinating closely with platform engineers, cybersecurity analysts, data services teams, and operations personnel to align APIs with service dependencies, cross-domain data workflows, and enclave-specific operational constraints.
• Mentors development teams through structured workshops, code reviews, and governance consultations to advance API maturity, reduce integration defects, and increase mission readiness across the Advana enterprise.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• 8+ years of experience developing API architectures and lifecycles
• TS with SCI eligibility

WHAT CAN GDIT OFFER YOU?

• Excellent customizable health benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
• 401K with company match
• Educational Assistance and eLearning
• Flexible work week
• Internal mobility team dedicated to employee advancement
• Rewards and Recognition programs
• Innovative and collaborative environment encouraging of highly motivated critical thinking