UI lead

Introduction

Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern software engineering practices? Are you excited to use these practices to deliver and manage mission critical services at scale? Are you a quick thinker? If so, please read on.

Do you love to solve business problems with systems and integrations? Do you want every day to be a bit different and allow you to work with individuals across the spectrum of the organization? Then you just may be a fit for this critical software developer role.

IBM is trailblazing new solutions and services that span key technologies within the IBM Infrastructure portfolio. We are looking for experienced candidates focused on front-end development. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring a deep level of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern as-a-service and cloud capabilities.

In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with cloud platform integration, orchestration & provisioning, security and DevOps.

As an IBM software developer, you are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, to implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis and to partner with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome blockers.

Your Role and Responsibilities

About the Team:

IBM Infrastructure offers clients the enterprise IT infrastructure they need to lead in the era of Hybrid Cloud and AI. The latest generation of IBM servers, storage, associated software, and support - as well as our IBM Cloud Platform - can help clients modernize and scale on-premises and in the cloud with secure hybrid cloud and trusted AI automation and insights.

The successful candidate will be part of the IBM Infrastructure Platform organization with the following key responsibilities:

• Development and maintenance of key as-a-service capabilities

• Supporting customer/business requirements

• Developing tools for support teams to enable them to quickly respond to customer requests

• Helping service providers to successfully onboard onto Infrastructure platform capabilities

• Partnering with Global Teams to provide related production support

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

IBM Infrastructure is a catalyst that makes the world work better because our clients demand it. Heterogeneous environments, the explosion of data, digital automation and cybersecurity threats require hybrid cloud infrastructure and enterprise automated intelligence that only IBM can provide.

As a critical member of the team tasked with delivering on above promise, your day-to-day activities will include but may not be limited to the following:

• Building new IBM Cloud user experiences and simplifying common tasks

• Ensuring automated testing and security needs are addressed

• Working with Analytics team to ensure we learn from every user experience

• Participating in building common UI components and libraries

• Developing knowledge of major cloud and as-a-service technologies, and additional knowledge or experience in the areas of IT and/or cloud technology architecture (service management and/or resiliency is a plus)

• Implementing modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient and reusable code and actively participating in code and design reviews

• Coordinating with support and development teams with which IBM Infrastructure Platform interacts to follow up on dependencies and issues and resolving them

• As required or desired, participate in open source development initiative

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• A minimum of 4+ years of experience in software development

• Experience in UI/UX development using JS/CSS/HTML and related frameworks such as React, Redux, etc

• Experience with Node JS and coding REST APIs using JSON

• Experience UI Testing Frameworks such as Jest

• Experience with agile software development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

• Experience in working with large teams distributed across geographical locations and time zones

• Strong debug skills, effective verbal and written communication skills, team oriented

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of the IBM Cloud platforms or another as-a-service platform and its architecture

• Experience with GraphQL and Apollo GraphQL

• Experience in data driven UX design and analytics

• Experience in UI Test Automation technologies such as Nightwatch.js, Selenium, etc.

• Proficient with one or more project management tools - Jira, Git, Aha, etc.

• Exposure to open source communities surround Cloud technologies

About Business UnitIBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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