Q-Replication Software Developer

Your role and responsibilities

Your role and responsibilities

• Understand product vision and business needs to define product requirements and product architectural solutions.
• Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility
• Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to development team
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
• Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications
• Provide support for production escalations and problem resolution for customers.
• Analyze requirements, design develop & maintain software products in alignment with the technology strategy of the organization.
• Participate in technical reviews of requirements, specifications, designs, code and other artifacts. Ensure commitments are agreed, reviewed and met.
• Learn new skills and adopt new practices readily in order to develop innovative and cutting-edge software products that maintain IBM's technical leadership position.
• Plan, develop, and manage the infrastructure to enable strategic and effective use of tools.
• Proactively identifying issues and improvement opportunities.
• Directing resources to diagnose and resolve complex system, application software, security and related problems that impact system and availability.
• Lead the evaluation/evolution of tools/technologies/programs with input from internal teams, external developers.
• Lead a team of software developers and ensure the successful delivery of projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure superior product quality and timely releases.
• Instill a culture of continuous improvement and effective teamwork through Agile practices.
• Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate testing and deployment processes.
• Conduct performance optimizations by analyzing metrics to enhance system efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements for all developed APIs and solutions.
• Provide technical support and lead product demos and training sessions for internal customers using the developed tools.
• Implement proactive monitoring and alerting systems to detect and address issues before they impact customers.
• Integrate security measures such as encryption and regular audits into the development lifecycle using appropriate tools.
• Perform security scans on all packages and tools to ensure there are no vulnerabilities at the time of product release.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software development experience, with a strong track record in leading and delivering complex projects.
• Proven experience in leading technical teams, mentoring developers, and driving technical innovation.
• Advanced programming skills in one of: Perl, Python, Golang, C/C++, Java, SQL, Perl with a continuous desire to learn and adopt new technologies.
• Deep understanding of RDBMS concepts, SQL databases, and experience with Db2 similar enterprise-level database systems.
• Deep knowledge in cloud architectures, cloud concepts, and cloud operations.
• Hands-on experience with Linux and containerization technologies, such as Docker or Podman.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration tools, preferably Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with IBM Cloud , AWS, Azure or Private Cloud deployments.
• Profound knowledge of networking and storage technologies as well as security concepts in Cloud environments.
• Practical experience in agile software development in distributed teams.
• Broad and proven know-how in database architecture and technology.
• Strong communication skills.
• Proven innovation mindset.
• Embrace the challenge of change and constant learning.Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise
• Experiences in CI/CD pipeline automatons and Dev/Ops practices.
• Experiences with software performance measurements and tuning.
• Experience in data replication technologies.
• Proven experience in leading technical teams, mentoring developers, and driving technical innovation.
• Practical experience in agile software development in distributed teams
• Broad and proven know-how in database architecture and technology

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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.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.