Senior Database Developer (PL/SQL)

IBM

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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Desire years of experience overall IT: 10-12

As a Senior member of the team, the candidate will work with a highly Agile team to develop, execute, validate, and maintain a suite of integrated software products. The candidate must be passionate about technology and is always looking to further their personal knowledge and expertise. The ideal team member will be creative, responsive, flexible, and willing to participate in an open and collaborative peer environment. The candidate enjoys working in a team of high performers, who hold each other accountable to perform to their very best and does not shy away from opportunities to provide and take feedback amongst their fellow team members.

Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solution. Documents, tests, implements, and provides on-going support for the applications. Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines. This role will focus on the achievement of departmental objectives and financial goals. Will play a significant part in achieving functional/technical delivery to our business, ensuring that priorities are met, and appropriate business value is delivered.

Responsibilities

  • Be hands-on in the designing of robust solutions to hard problems, while considering scale, security, reliability, and cost
  • Support other product delivery partners in the successful build, test, and release of solutions.
  • Work with distributed requirements and technical stakeholders to complete shared design and development.
  • Support the full software lifecycle of design, development, testing, and support for technical delivery.
  • Actively participate in agile ceremonies and/or team-based events
  • Work with Product Owners and the team to understand the business value and break down the feature as stories.
  • Review user stories/requirements to identify ambiguities.
  • Possess awesome technical abilities that will enable you to significantly improve product quality and time to market.
  • Communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively for your audience.
  • Collaborate across teams and departments to help to create best practices.
  • Identify defects and write reproducible bug reports following team standards for defects.
  • Proactively lead team members on all aspects of software engineering.
  • Drive innovation in the organization.
  • Make presentations on software technologies, frameworks, and patterns to the organization.
  • Innovation leader that pushes creative ideas for meeting the organization's strategic goals and fostering an environment that inspires and facilitates innovative thinking.
  • Focus on continuous learning and technical skill development through knowledge of new applications and methods.
  • Ability to think outside of the box to simplify the current environment for better manageability and support.
  • Ability to map current initiatives to refactor existing applications code as needed.
  • Participate in building key frameworks, including DevOps/testing automation, and patterns that promote modularity, configurability, reusability, reliability, and telemetry (aligned to DP's principles).
  • Ensures all non-production environments have appropriate level of data to support development and testing activities.
  • Assess software delivery throughput (velocity) and code stability (quality).
  • Leverage UML diagrams.
  • Promote the usage of code quality and code security analyzers, like Checkmarx.
  • Implement threshold checks for unit test coverages within the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Perform thorough code reviews.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

  • Must be very strong in Java. We want Java engineers that really passionate about Java and take the time to understand why they do things a certain way.
  • Working knowledge of Springboot, python, node
  • Working knowledge of microservices
  • Comfortable with docker and Kubernetes
  • Comfortable using build and deployment tools, e.g., Git, Jenkins etc
  • Automation driven Mindset to improve maintainability and testability
  • Uses Documentation to record design and solution to provide clarity.

Additoiinal Technology Skills Desired:

  • Hands-on experience supporting mainframe workloads with COBOL, JCL, and CICS, including DB2, Teradata, and Oracle back ends.
  • Strong proficiency in Teradata: SQL tuning, DDL/DML, and utilities such as BTEQ, Multi Load, Fast Load, and TPT.
  • Proficiency in Linux (RHEL), SFTP, and shell scripting for file handling and automation.
  • Experience with CA7 scheduling: building jobs, managing dependencies, calendars, and handling alerts and escalations.
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, data lineage, and data quality practices; ability to assess downstream impact of changes.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, a strong production support mindset, and clear communication with business and engineering stakeholders.

Required Experience & Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 10 years prior experience in application design, delivery, leading teams, working on challenging problems at scale.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Advanced english.

Preferred technical and professional experience

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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