IBM Mainframe Architect 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

855796956

Your Role and Responsibilities
The IBM Sustainability Software team is seeking a talented software developer to join our innovative and dynamic work environment. As a software development engineer, you will work alongside experienced professionals towards a common goal of delivering high-quality products to our clients. As a Full Stack Developer with our Product Development Team, you will transition seamlessly between backend and front end coding responsibilities, through the sprint lifecycle. You will proactively seek for improvement opportunities and will focus on innovation that matters; by learning new technologies and methods that can positively impact the product roadmap. This role requires scheduled after hours paging for high-severity events related to all of the team’s deployments. Paging availability is required for after-hours weekday, weekend and holiday coverage. The pager rotates throughout the team to balance the load.
In this role, you will be a member for the ‘SCBN Standard and Premium’ Product Development Team and is responsible for solving our customer’s uniquely complex problems. You’ll closely collaborate with the wider Protocols Squad to manage delivery of code to cater to the product’s roadmap needs and to support our highly available SaaS multi-tenant platform. This is an exciting opportunity to learn at a low level how the industry leading Supply Chain products works and to learn from a large group of very talented engineers. You will be part of a strong, agile, and culture-driven development team responsible for building the Supply Chain Product for tomorrow.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to :

• Design, develop and deploy new product features and enhancements
• Triage product or system level issues, debug and ultimately resolve them by analyzing various sources
• Perform code reviews on code built by other developers and ensure best practices are being followed
• Bring best-in-class engineering practices across software development cycle starting from requirements review, coding, testing and security to providing client support
• Follow software development processes based on agile methodologies
• Participate in user story identification and analysis towards building self-correcting supply chains
• Collaborate with stakeholders such as product owners, architects, engineering managers, and other business partners to investigate new designs, create prototypes and evaluate technical feasibility
• Proactively research new technologies that can drive improvements and innovations for our products
• Contribute to existing documentation and peer education post product updates or enhancements.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 7-10 years of IT experience in IBM Mainframe
• Domain – Supply Chain/Retail exposure and EDI knowledge would be added advantage
• Analyze mainframe system level operations and suggest performance improvements
• Maintain and provide optimization support for the product using IBM Mainframe Technology Stack – JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS and VSAM
• Analyze performance and system reports to provide improvement ideas
• Perform query optimization
• Coordinate with Development/Support Teams as required
• Coordinate with Infrastructure Support Team if needed
• Manage non-functional requirements adoption for the product
• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support our product in full-stack development tools and technologies
• Leading the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of product backend
• Assisting in the hiring of top engineering talent
• Define, lead and maintain technical design methodologies, processes, technologies and standards
• Help detail all aspects of product design and architecture and ensure that resulting specification fits into chosen architectural framework.
• To ensure knowledge up-gradation and work with new technologies so that the product is current and meets industry-best standards.
• Mainframe Modernization experience would be useful.
• Innovate in the areas of Product Engineering
• Open for Cross Time Zone Collaboration
• An ability to work remotely and use conference and collaboration tools effectively
• Contribute towards white papers/technical papers and knowledge base
• Ensure to stay on top of current trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community”

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Extensive experience with applied skills on COBOL, VSAM, CICS, and JCL