Senior Java Engineer

Job Description

IntroductionIn this role, youll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer ourclients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.Youll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategicpartner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, youll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breakingimpact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.We offer: · Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us· Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here· A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications · Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks· A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome· Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees· Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme· More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Software Engineer youll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code implementation, testing, and support. You will create software that enables your clients hybrid-cloud and AI journeys.Youll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, ensuring the applications delivered are high performing, highly available, responsive, and maintainable.Your primary responsibilities include:• Analyze, validate and propose improvements to existing failures, with the support of the architect and technical leader.• Involvement in every step of the process, from design, development, testing release changes and troubleshoot where necessary, providing a great customer service.• Drive key discussions with your stakeholders and analyze the current landscape for opportunities to operate and code creative solutions.Required Technical and Professional Expertise• Experienced Java developer with experience of designing and building new applications• Excellent grasp of object oriented design and the experience to know when to apply common design patterns• Knowledge of and ability to apply SOLID principles• Experience of test driven development and related techniques such as mocking and dependency injection• Developing in a secure environment • Maven Git DevOps tooling experience• Performance optimisation of Java applicationPreferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseNoneAbout Business UnitIBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, andoperations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people,partners and the planet.Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be thecatalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personalor professional background.Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaboratewith colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress,always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.Are you ready to be an IBMerAbout IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for ourclients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relyingon the IBM Cloud to run their business. 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 forcefor good in the world.Location StatementIBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability