Senior Staff Development Engineer

Introduction
“India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) is part of IBM Systems world-wide technology development lab. Established in 1996 the Lab is headquartered in India’s Silicon Valley and startup hub – Bengaluru with a strong presence in Pune and Hyderabad. Developers at ISDL deliver technology innovations across the entire Systems portfolio – z Systems Power / OpenPOWER Systems and Storage. The team here works across the entire stack from processor design firmware operating system to software defined storage. The lab also focuses on innovations thanks to the creative energies of the teams. The lab has contributed over 400+ patents in cutting edge technologies and inventions so far.
While computing veers towards cognitive cloud mobile social and security the lab has significantly contributed to not just new products focused in these areas but has also ushered in new development models such as Agile Design Thinking and DevOps.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Who you are:
We are z/OS Operating System professionals working on IBM Z. We build a secure operating system for our IBM Z customers to deploy their mission critical applications.
As a Development and Test Lead and system programmer you will be part of the team working on PDSE (Partitioned Data Set Extended) a z/OS component. You will be fully hands-on in programming working in the z/OS Development organization. You should be familiar with hierarchical file systems and UNIX utilities. A strong understanding of software architecture and design and expertise in Agile software development is required. A seasoned Development and Test team leader who can comfortably interact and collaborate with senior technical and business leaders across the global z/OS development organization is preferred.

What you’ll do:
This is an opportunity to work on PDSE (Partitioned Data Set Extended) a z/OS component. IBMers in this role can expect to design develop test deliver and service software offerings for the z/OS operating system using Agile practices. They will work in a team-focused collaborative environment to understand requirements design code debug and test creative solutions to client problems and requirements.

• Architect design develop PDSE features and fixes and also execute functional system and integration test cases.
• Function as a lead for the development and test team who is fully hands-on.
• Write design documents test plan and test case documents review design and test documents code test automate tests fix and verify defects.
• Guide the team and clear technical roadblocks
• Prepare status updates and present to the management.
• Complete ownership of end-to-end deliverables.
• Identify opportunities for PDSE enhancements and define implementation plans.
• Collaborate with global z/OS teams.
• Look for improvements in Software Development life cycle.

How we’ll help you grow:

• You’ll have access to all the technical and leadership training courses you need to become the expert you want to be
• You’ll learn directly from expert developers in the z/OS organization learning from others and sharing your expertise is critical to the growth of our organization
• You’ll have the opportunity to work with development and business teams across the organization.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with the Software Development life cycle; Designing coding unit testing function or component testing system testing and
• integration testing.
• Demonstrated execution experience of operating systems development
• Strong programming skills in C PLX PL/S ASM (Assembler) programming functional/component testing system testing.
• Expertise in Groovy.
• An understanding and experience with Agile software development concepts and processes
• Strong expertise in Unix file systems. Extensive experience in debugging and troubleshooting issues.
• Strong development and test lead who has demonstrated experience in operating systems project development designing unit testing defect fixing and testing.
• Good communication skills as this role requires interaction with global stakeholders.
• Experience in guiding a team of lesser experienced professionals.
• Willingness and ability to learn new technology including tooling concepts and ramp up in a short span.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• z/OS architecture Operating systems Familiarity with z/OS and z/VM Java Python GIT JIRA