Job#: 3059082 Job Description: ODM Technical Lead
Location: San Antonio, Texas (On-site)
Role Overview
This is a working technical lead position responsible for building, reviewing, and setting the technical standards for decision rules. The successful candidate will author decision rules and collaborate closely with process owners to determine how rule changes should be built and validated. This role requires technical expertise to mentor developers while remaining hands-on with engineering standards, versioning, and rule deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- Author, modify, and maintain decision rules in IBM ODM using Rule Designer and Decision Center, including decision tables, ruleflows, and the business object model (BOM) and execution object model (XOM).
- Lead technical design sessions and conduct peer reviews for all rule changes, tracing approved Decision Model requirements to final implementation.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards for the team, including rule structure, naming conventions, BOM/XOM modifications, versioning, branches, and baselines.
- Write and maintain unit tests and native ODM test suites, utilizing simulations to verify the impact of changes prior to release.
- Diagnose defects using Decision Warehouse traces and collaborate with quality engineers on test scenarios, data, and regression coverage.
- Package and prepare decision services for deployment through established change and release processes.
- Coach and mentor developers, including team members who are new to IBM ODM technology.
- Provide clear status updates and early risk assessments to leadership regarding project delivery.
Required Qualifications
Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related technical field is preferred.
Experience: Several years of hands-on IBM ODM or ILOG JRules development experience in a production environment, including leadership or mentoring of other developers while remaining active in code development.
Technical Skills: Deep proficiency in Decision Center, Rule Designer, Rule Execution Server, and the BOM/XOM framework. Strong Java skills, including the XOM side of an ODM project, are required. Experience exposing decision services through RESTful interfaces is necessary, along with working knowledge of version control, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing for rules.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing decision rules within the banking, insurance, or regulated financial services industries.
- Experience with ODM on-premises and on IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, as well as DMN decision models.
- Proficiency with rule coverage, simulation, and automated test execution inside the ODM environment.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate into established teams and adapt to existing client processes.
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