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Your Role and Responsibilities
Are you passionate about IBM Z ? Do you have a passion for product development on z/OS ? Do you want to lead a team to deliver and manage mission critical services at scale? If you want to work in a collaborative, team-driven environment with a group of experienced software engineers who want to deliver great technology, read on!
As a backend lead developer, you will lead a highly focused, self-managed Agile team that designs, develops & deploys mainframe product on z/OS. Your expertise in designing and building high performance, reliable, enterprise observability product on the mainframe will enable next-generation experiences for our customers. You will interface with senior technical leaders and delivery teams to shape, estimate, and deliver the product that adds value to our customers in their observability journey.
This position is for a experienced senior developer with experience in mainframe product development or mainframe application development using one or more mainframe subsystems (CICS, MQ, IMS and DB2). The ideal candidate has programming experience using Assembler/HLASM,C/C++ and using MVS services, in either product development or application development.
Major Responsibilities
Works as part of a project team, regularly communicating with project stakeholders on project progress and status.
Capable of designing, coding, unit testing, debugging, and maintaining the highest level of difficult computer programs. This position requires the candidate to be currently hands-on in Assembler coding.
Performs root cause analysis to quickly identify and resolve customer issues.
As a member of this dynamic team supporting the delivery of enterprise software for a large user base, you demonstrate leadership, technical curiosity, a self-starter, creativity as well as forward-thinking with a passion for growth and innovation.
The job requires the ability to perform new code features as well as code enhancements for the Z APM Connect product. Future team members should expect to work in a collaborative team-driven environment with a group of experienced software engineers who want to deliver great technology.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
10+ years' experience in mainframe application or product development
Leadership skills - ability to drive and mentor the team and ensure timely and quality delivery of product features.
10+ years of recent mainframe programming experience 5+ years of Assembler, C++ language experience
Current hands-on coding in Assembler
Must have expert system-level knowledge of one or more of the following subsystems: CICS, IMS, MQ, DB2
Experience designing, developing, unit testing, and supporting mainframe software development experience in an agile environment
A self-starter & ability to work effectively in a team environment
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Knowledge of AppDynamics or Instana is helpful
Experience developing in REXX, COBOL, Java, Python
Knowledge of SAFE framework is a plus
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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