Job Description

• Chennai, India
• Hyderabad, India

The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware. 

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering 

Job Overview:  

The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Review and provide feedback on designs. 

• Takes ownership of the design and development of features within their component. 

• Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns. 

• Good understanding of how his/her work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables. 

• Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component that fits into an architecture. 

• Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team. 

• Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities. 

• Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain. 

• Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management 

• Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help 

• Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks 

• Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target 

• Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues 

• Discuss with customers what larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns 

• Willingness to teach and grow junior team members 

• Excellent listening skills 

• Effectively works within the team and across teams 

• Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers 

• Takes identified problems and concerns and create a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again 

• Follows through on all tasks 

• Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes 

• Imparts a sense of urgency on junior team members ​

Required Qualifications:  

• Work Experience: 8 to 14 Year.
• Candidate must have Mainframe Assembler Programming and C experience preferably in a software vendor environment.
• It is desirable to have experience working with SMF, Subsystem Interfaces, data spaces, and EXCP.

Applied knowledge or z/series I/O technology and z/OS implementation to include:

• In-depth knowledge of z/OS DASD and Tape systems configurations
• Knowledge of EXCP, Channel Programs and IO traces.
• Applied Knowledge of Dataspaces, use of Coupling Facility structures and XCF; IP Socket layer communications including SNMP, SMTP
• Applied knowledge of z/OS TSO/E REXX
• Applied knowledge of z/OS UNIX System Services
• Applied knowledge of z/OS V2R2 ISPF Dialog development
• Web Development experience
• Strong English communication skills
• Exposure to z/VSE Environment
• Commercial software vendor experience
• Applied knowledge of IBM z/OS; experience using ISPF, SDSF, JCL and SMP/e
• Applied knowledge of Advanced system-level z/OS Assembler (HLASM) Programming skills
• Applied knowledge of Advanced system-level z/OS C programming
• Advanced z/OS system level diagnostics, problem determination and debugging with experience in the use of z/OS console commands, IPCS and XDC
• Applied knowledge of IBM z/OS Assembler Programming - using 24, 31, and 64-bit memory models
• Applied knowledge of IBM z/OS Authorized Assembler Services
• Demonstrable skills in debugging multi-tasking, multi-address space environments

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Writes code faster than the average developer. 

• Outstanding quality with few bugs in generated code. 

Education: 

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent