Senior Software Engineer (IBM z/VSE Assembler )

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Be familiar with IBM z/VSE Assembler technologies

• Review and provide feedback on designs. 

• Takes ownership of the design and development of features within their component. 

• Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns. 

• Good understanding of how his/her work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables. 

• Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component that fits into an architecture. 

• Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team. 

• Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities. 

• Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain. 

• Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management 

• Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help 

• Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks 

• Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target 

• Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues 

• Discuss with customers what larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns 

• Willingness to teach and grow junior team members 

• Excellent listening skills 

• Effectively works within the team and across teams 

• Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers 

• Takes identified problems and concerns and create a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again 

• Follows through on all tasks 

• Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes 

• Imparts a sense of urgency on junior team members 

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Required Qualifications:  

• 8+ years of software engineering experience 

• Extensive knowledge of z/VSE and CICS TS operations and internals

• Mastery of data structures and algorithms. 

• Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems. 

• Able to write high-quality code rapidly.  

• Able to present a track record of solving problems of increasing complexity 

• Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems that have variable levels of complexity. 

• Deep understanding of memory allocation and management mechanism, security mechanisms, processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with z/VSE and CICS system monitoring

• Experience with source code management using Git and Bitbucket

• Experience with DevOps implementation in z/VM and z/VSE environments

• Writes code faster than the average developer. 

• Outstanding quality with few bugs in generated code.