Job Description

Introduction
The modern digital business works in near real-time; it informs interested parties of things of interest when they happen, makes sense of, and derives insight from an ever-growing number of sources. It learns, predicts, and is intelligent - it is by nature Event-Driven. Event-driven architecture (EDA) is an architecture pattern that promotes the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events. This architectural pattern can be applied to the systems that transmit events among loosely coupled software components and services.

Join our team to help define the future of the EDA by developing IBM\'s Event Automation capabilities, and participate in the advancement of key open source initiatives such including Apache Flink, Apache Kafka and the wider EDA ecosystem.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise ready code, employing your technical expertise to implement innovative and effective solutions.
• Create cloud ready software by building containerized solutions and orchestrated deployments.
• Conduct comprehensive testing of the developed solutions, ensuring their reliability, efficiency and seamless integration across other IBM capabilities.
• Provide support for the capability, responding promptly to customer inquiries through resolving issues and optimizing performance.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, sharing insights and best practices related to product development, fostering knowledge sharing within the team.
• Continuously monitor the evolving landscape of event-driven technologies, remaining updated on the latest trends and advancements.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and developers, to ensure a holistic and harmonious product development process.
• Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to enhance code quality and promote continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of technical challenges and lead your team to ensure successful delivery, using your problem-solving skills to overcome obstacles.
• Mentor and guide other developers, nurturing their growth and development by providing guidance, knowledge transfer, and hands-on training.
• Engage in agile practices, contributing to backlog grooming, sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives to facilitate effective project delivery and team operational dynamics.
• Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, contributing to brainstorming sessions and offering creative ideas to push the boundaries of event processing solutions.
• Maintain documentation for the developed solutions, ensuring comprehensive and up-to-date material for customer reference and knowledge sharing.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong Software Development experience using Java to build reliable, scalable and performant solutions.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrable experience in taking high level requirements, identifying the stories that satisfy the requirement, solutioning the technical implementation, through to sizing and developing the solution.
• Expertise in developing scalable and high-performance systems, considering factors like throughput, latency and fault tolerance.
• Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to interact effectively with cross-functional teams and customers.
• Collaborative and team-oriented approach to work, valuing open communication and diverse perspectives.
• Creative thinking and innovation mindset to drive continuous improvement and explore new possibilities.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting and debugging.
• Leadership skills to guide and mentor other developers, fostering their growth and skill development.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 4 years of extensive experience in designing, developing web applications.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and concepts.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and their implementation.
• Hands-on experience developing software for cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and knowledge of how to leverage their event-related services.
• Adaptability to stay current with evolving event-driven technologies and industry trends.
• Customer-focused mindset, with a dedication to delivering solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations.

About Business Unit IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence\xe2\x80\x94from machine learning to generative AI\xe2\x80\x94to 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments\xe2\x80\x94a 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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