Introduction
IBM Storage Protect mission in IBM Systems Development Lab, India is looking for Senior Product Architect, who is passionate about and deeply skilled in Data Resiliency & Data Protection. Focus is on building, enhancing and maintaining the software tha helps in taking backups and restor of workloads like Enterprise Application and Packages, DBs, Virtual Environments i.e VMs, Physical Servers. These are to be backed up and restored from Hard Drives, COS, Tapes and vendor specific storage h/w and s/w products (IBM and others a plus).

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Storage Protect portfolio of products are marvellous piece of engineering which combine skills/expertise on client side, networking, server side, primary/secondary storages, deep skills in systems programming and performance optimization.

• Provide expert inputs/insights: On product architecture, design decisions, and technology choices. Effectively collaborate with the stakeholders like Product/Offering Mgmt, Sales and Mktg, Support.
• Contribute to the core development/delivery: Be thorough with the technology domain and associated programming languages/frameworks/patterns and tool. Own coding/testing of some of the key/complex modules/components
• Serve as an end-to-end SME: Demonstrates skills/expertise across all functional/non-functional aspects. Gain insights into customer adoption of product capabilities and rise above the silos of being client side, server side or module specific knowledge.
• Be the trusted advisor to clients/customers: Stay at the forefront in understanding customer's pain points both tactical and strategic. And work proactively to provide solutions/resolutions.
• Be the agent of change/innovation: Challenge the status quo and provide though leadership and operational drive.
• Drive eminence and respect: Be an active evangelist and thought leader inside and outside the organization.

• 18+ years of relevant experience of working on Enterprise Class Products, preferably from Storage/Data Protection domain.
• Expertise in C/C++ system software development. Exposure to other programming languages, development / test environments, and related diagnostic tools.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills to analyze and resolve complex technical issues.
• Good Expertise in building software/solutions that conforms to modern application architecture and practices. Knowledge of Dockers/Kubernetes/Micorservices/REST APIs/NoSQL will also be desirable.
• Development experience with third party cloud object storage providers.
• Solid understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles and best practices.

• who is from storage, data protection and resiliency background.
• who is open to learn and take inputs constructively.
• who embraces challenges and doesn't believe in finding faults with team, peers or uplines. It's Ok to err on skills but one need to be open minded towards improvement.
• who can balance people, product and process goals. Being open minded is the key to success for this role.