Senior Z/os Developer Job in Rocket Software

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:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience

• Mastery of data structures and algorithms.

• Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems.

• Able to write high-quality code rapidly.

• Able to present a track record of solving problems of increasing complexity

• Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems that have variable levels of complexity.

• Deep understanding of memory allocation and management mechanism, security mechanisms, processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems.

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