IBM Hiring for Staff SDE at Bangalore, India

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Architect and develop robust microservices that support various aspects of FinOps operations, including rightsizing, recomendation, and cost optimization.

• Demonstrates the ability to understand and drive complex technical initiatives. Delegates appropriate sub-components to increase overall throughput and team growth.

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines for collecting, processing, and analyzing financial data from diverse sources, ensuring data integrity and reliability.

• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and business analysts to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing guidance on best practices, code reviews, and technical challenges.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform technical decisions and drive innovation.

• Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups.

• Work closely with DevOps engineers to deploy and maintain microservices in cloud environments, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.

• Develop automated tests and implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline the software development lifecycle and improve code quality.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to integrate third-party APIs and services into the FinOps platform.

• Demonstrates the ability to identify key gaps in product offerings and functionality that will drive significant revenue and customer excitement.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Professional Expertise:

• Leadership Skills: Responsible for engineering across their team, seeks to drive cross team initiatives. Drives strategically important projects or core systems (both by leading others and demonstrating extraordinary individual ownership). Seeks be a role model and mentor to engineers in multiple teams

• Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other engineers. Seeks to be a skilled consensus builder with strong influencing and negotiation skills

• Problem-solving: Demonstrates the ability to understand and drive complex technical initiatives. Delegates appropriate sub-components to increase overall throughput and team growth.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, understanding of sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

• Prioritization: Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively to meet deadlines and deliverables.

• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and requirements in a fast-paced environment.Demonstrates the ability to anticipate and quickly adapt systems and practices to changes in load, usage, and customer requirements. Seeks to keep their entire team focused on important, high- value efforts.

• Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying updated with the latest technologies and industry trends.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Technical Expertise:

• Programming Languages: Proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, Scala or Go.

• Microservices Architecture: Deep understanding of designing, developing, and deploying microservices-based architectures.

• Cloud Computing Platforms: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Containerization: Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• API Development: Experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs.

• Database Systems: Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDb.

• Big Data Technologies: Familiarity with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Snowflake, Databrics, Kafka, and related ecosystems.

• CI/CD Pipelines: Experience in building and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Git Action.

• Monitoring and Logging: Knowledge of tools for monitoring and logging such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack (Splunk, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).

• Security Best Practices: Understanding of security best practices including encryption, authentication, and authorization in microservices architectures.

• DevOps Practices: Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices for infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment.

• Testing: Proficiency in writing unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, PyTest, etc.

• Data Processing and Analytics: Knowledge of data processing frameworks pipelines.

• Version Control Systems: Proficiency with Git and knowledge of branching strategies and pull request workflows.

• Performance Optimization: Ability to optimize the performance of microservices and data processing pipelines for scalability and efficiency.

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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.

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