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We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM development team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The CICS AI team is looking for developers who show the initiative and thrive at tackling problems. The AI landscape as a whole is rapid paced and comes with ever developing requirements, which you as a developer would be required to help design and engineer solutions that innovate within that environment. This will include understanding AI principals with data manipulation and transformation, prompt engineering, and model validations as we look to build up high quality solutions. You will be applying the software engineering rigour, ensuring proper processes and best practises are followed accordingly. Much of the existing technology stack exists in Java, Golang and python, so the ability to shift between technologies and languages is important for this role.

Your main duties will include designing and implementing new features, optimising and maintaining existing code, and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to ensure the software meets user needs.

What You'll Do:

• You'll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative AI solutions and demonstrate these solutions to our clients.

• You'll integrate with other teams across IBM to identify and build AI solutions that infuse and incorporate CICS portfolio.

• You'll employ IBM's Design Thinking to validate user scenarios to develop solutions with high performance, security, quality, and stability. 

Skills you will develop:

• An understanding of AI technologies (especially foundation and Large Language Models (LLM))

• Tackling the challenges of training, testing, benchmark, and validating AI generated content and code.

• Becoming familiar with the business applications of AI and how the Watsonx platform brings value to IBM clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong experience in Java

• Understanding of container technologies

• An interest in AI principles including prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) data transformations and vectors, etc.

• Strong and independent analytics and problem-solving skills.

• Familiarity with git, other source control practises, and various development tools and IDE's

• Understand what agile, DevOps and continuous delivery are.

• Have experience using and developing APIs.

• Strong documentation/communication skills to manage work items

• Demonstrated written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• An interest in z/OS and mainframe technologies. Any prior CICS knowledge is preferred but not required.

• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies, Tekton, ArgoCD.

• Agile Application Development & Scrum methodologies

• Understanding of programming language syntax and grammar.

• Knowledge of COBOL, JCICS, Python, Golang are preferred.

• Good at defining test strategies that can include AI and non AI solutions.

About Business UnitIBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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