Introduction
A career in IBM means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
We are seeking a skilled software architect to join our IBM development team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.
Your Role and Responsibilities
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The Z Software AI team is looking for software architect who show the initiative and thrive at tackling problems. The AI landscape as a whole is rapid paced and comes with ever developing requirements, which you as an architect would be required to help design and engineer solutions that innovate within that environment. This will include understanding AI principals with data manipulation and transformation, prompt engineering, and model validations as we look to build up high quality solutions. You will be applying the software engineering rigour to developments from IBM Research, ensuring proper processes and best practices are followed accordingly. Your ability to shift between technologies and languages is important for this role.
Your main duties will include designing and implementing new features, optimising and maintaining existing code, and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to ensure the software meets user needs.
What You'll Do:
- You'll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative AI solutions and demonstrate these solutions to our clients.
- You'll integrate with other teams across IBM to identify and build AI solutions that infuse and incorporate into Z Software portfolio.
- You'll employ IBM's Design Thinking to validate user scenarios to develop solutions with high performance, security, quality, and stability.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 12+ years experience in Software design, development, testing, deployment on on prem and cloud
- Hands on skills in Java, Python, Go, Node.js, JavaScript, JSON, Open API specification.
- Proven experience in designing and developing APIs.
- Strong understanding of database concepts and experience working with relational databases, preferably Db2 for z/OS
- Strong Experience with DevOps and Cloud computing - Docker, Kuberenetes, Openshift
- Linux or UNIX development, Infra/networking skills
- Exprience in creating test cases, test plan and test automation
- Strong DevOps skills Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Tower, Cloud computing - Docker, Kuberenetes, Openshift
- Understanding of AI principles including prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) data transformations and vectors, etc..
- Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies, such as Tekton or ArgoCD.
- Strong and independent analytics and problem-solving skills.
- Strong experience with git, other source control practises, and various development tools and IDE's.
- Strong experience in agile, DevOps and continuous delivery, Security & Compliance
- Strong documentation/communication skills to manage work items.
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead the team
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience in z/OS and mainframe technologies.
- Knowledge/hands on skills in COBOL is plus
- Skilled at defining test strategies that can include AI and non AI solutions
- Knowledge of COBOL,Assembler programming, Job Control Language (JCL) Restructured Extended Executor language (REXX), IBM IMS (Information Management System), PL/I programming language is plus
- Experience in Generative AI strongly preferred.