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24-Jul-2024
Mainframe Architect
717018BR
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.
Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with
clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt
things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some
of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.
Join the next generation of innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs who are changing the very way the
world works. We want the brightest minds doing work that inspires, in an environment where growth is
encouraged. IBMers get to discover their potential, so they’re inspired to create breakthroughs that help
our clients succeed. We’re building diverse teams with people who want their ideas to matter. Join us —
you’ll be proud to call yourself an IBMer.
The role falls under Sustainability Software division of IBM Software Labs, and we are looking for experts
in product development, particularly in enterprise software development, systems, networking, distributed
systems, databases, or data processing frameworks; who is at ease with industry-standard web
architectures, including middleware, server setup, load balancing, reverse proxy, networking, deployment,
security and common change and migration processes; who can optimize and is able to succeed within an
open collaborative peer environment, to maximize speed and scale for our cloud based, multi-tiered,
enterprise products.
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 Experience
Extensive experience with applied skills on COBOL, VSAM, CICS, and JCL
Required Education Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree Master's Degree
About Business Unit
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI
—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI
into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation,
application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data,
because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple
clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and
accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy
AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent
approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for
leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
Wonder if IBM is the one for you?
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success,
innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as
IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged
to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an
environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information
and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going
feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team
focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The
courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for
progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always
striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
About IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and
science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid
cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world,
we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50
companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and
blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and
a force for good in the world.
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IBM Vaccination Policy
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.
Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy,
disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to
compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Country/Region State / Province
India Karnātaka
City / Township / Village IBM Business Group
Bangalore Software
Primary job category Secondary Job Category
Software Development & Support Other Software Development & Support
Role ( Job Role ) Employment Type
Software Developer Full-Time
Contract type Early Professional Track
Regular Not Applicable - Professional Hire
Position Type Travel Required
Professional No Travel
Company Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive
based position?
(0063) IBM India Private Limited
No
ERBP Company Label
Yes IBM
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