Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe

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.