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Technical Lead

AT IBM
IBM

Technical Lead

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll 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 strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your role and responsibilities

The Technical Lead position will focus primarily on the development of CTU, an automated refactoring tool that translates COBOL to a modern object oriented (Java) equivalent. Secondary responsibilities include project related activities (integrate new libraries, solution customization, automation), or other language modernization.

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  • Design and implement Java applications
  • Write well designed, testable code
  • Problem solving - identifying and resolving issues with applications
  • Participate in code reviews


  • Stay connected with latest technologies

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Core Java - 5 years working experience
  • Java libraries (some of - Spring Framework, Eclipse RCP, Eclipse EMF, Guava, Apache Commons, Guice / Dependency Injection, JPA)
  • Good SQL / ORM/ Relational Databases knowledge
  • Good command of Test-Driven Development
  • Practical skills in CI/CD - some of Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins, Jira
  • Excellent problem solving and algorithmic thinking
  • Ability to take ownership of business problems and technical solutions
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills - teamwork

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Compilation technologies / ANTLR / XText
  • MVS / COBOL / JCL
  • Performance Tuning
  • Cloud / Kubernetes
  • J2EE application development


  • Java Script Frameworks (Angular, React, VueJS)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM 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, and operations 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.

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Client-provided location(s): Portsmouth, UK
Job ID: IBM-29828
Employment Type: Other

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