Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!Job Description Summary:

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 Enterprise Program Products for monitoring IBM z/OS Storage environments. 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 creates 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:

• Experience in software engineering at a senior level