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Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high-quality solutions.
Leverage platform engineering expertise & working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies
Develop business & customer-aligned, lasting & innovative platform feature sets.
Positively contribute to, define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.
Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decision..ns.
Identify & Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
Apobject-orientate dated design in development & drawing from a large base of design patterns
Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment.
Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform.m
Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve platform performance..
Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service.
Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution design..s
Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led botherth. ers
Apply expertise in engineering & available technologies to enablan e effective revieprocessce.uses
Cascade review learned for the benefit of the broader team
Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of,, ssues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
Optimize, refactor, a nd reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area
Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions
Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact on the customer scenario and the product or service as a whole, and their relevance to product and service targets (within the scope of the job).
Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision-making
Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.
Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets.
Proactively & effectively (time & quality) collaborate & drive collaboration on features across feature teams (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own are,a etc.)
Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries & lead communication with relevant stakeholders through tthe o conclusi.on
Contribute to a high-performance team environment & culture as a high-performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working.
Leverage coaching techniques in allteam-relatedd activities to drive a higher quality service, design, and deployment of technical solutions.
Proactively seek & provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery.
Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from other.s
Participate in peer reviews, testingproblem-solvingng within and across the broader team.
Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient & effective platform service delivery
Drive the design of content, tools & materials for strategy alignment, education & adoption processes to be applied across stakeholder group.s
3 years experience in risk management and identifying mitigating strategies and plans
3 yearof s proven experience in mainframe ESM software.
Demonstrated experience in identifying, reporting, and finding solutions in new and existing software.
Strong hands-on experience with installation and configuration of mainframe products and software
5 years of strong IT understanding, gaining insight into digital and platform operating models and information security trends and solutions.
Experience or knowledge in OSA, CTCs OSPF
Experience in PAGENT (Problem determination – logs & USS comfort level)
Experience in: TCPIP (Packet Traces, SSL Trace, Sysplex Distributed VIPs, VIPAS, DNS, Port configuration and reservation, AT/TLS), z/OSMF Policies
Certificates (Certificate Requests, RACF Keyrings, RACF Certificate install, Certificate Renewals)
