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Introduction

Overview 
 
Apptio, an IBM company, is the leading technology spend and value management software provider. Its AI-powered data insights empower leaders to make smarter financial and operational decisions. A pioneer and category leader in Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps, Apptio works with thousands of customers, partners, and community members worldwide.
 
You:

  • Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and exceptional attention to detail.
  • Have ambitious career goals and are looking for a company and team where these goals will be fulfilled.
  • Are not afraid to take risks.
  • Are computer science literate and can demonstrate competency in the qualifications you put on your resume.
  • Can quickly figure out how things work.
  • Can read code and learn from it; you can write code so others can learn from it.
  • Can quickly integrate into a team and start contributing.
  • Are comfortable working in multiple code bases and languages. 

  

Us: 

We are IBM Cloudability Savings Automation, a growing and fast-moving team of engineers helping our customers save money by automating their cloud financial management. Our field requires working on state-of-the-art tools and technology and spans the whole stack: we ingest massive data sets and maintain complex ETL pipelines, scan billing and usage patterns for insights and automate those insights to help customers save money on auto-pilot. This complex zero-touch system frees up our customers to focus on their core business while our product takes care of cloud financial management nuances. All of this is powered by a microservice mesh of backend serverless services and an interactive React based UI to track the automation performance.

Your role and responsibilities

Responsibilities 

  1. Lead the development, testing, debugging, and maintenance of complex Python applications and services in a serverless microservice architecture.
  2. Architect and implement robust, scalable solutions to address intricate business challenges. 
  3. Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of developers, data scientists, finops practitioners and other stakeholders to ensure the efficiency and robustness of solutions. 
  4. Utilize advanced features of AWS and Azure to architect and build sophisticated serverless applications and API setups. 
  5. Conduct thorough and meticulous code reviews to ensure the highest quality of code. 
  6. Drive the adherence to SOLID principles in both design and implementation of code. 
  7. Take the lead in troubleshooting, optimizing, and resolving application issues. 
  8. Proactively stay updated on current and emerging technologies and techniques and propose innovative improvements to enhance our systems. 
  9. Mentorship of junior developers.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Qualifications  

  1. 8 to 12 years of proven experience in development, testing and supporting software applications preferably SaaS product(s).
  2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
  3. Problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.
  4. Should have good experience working on different managed services of AWS and/or other cloud technologies.
  5. Demonstrated track record of success as a Senior Python Developer, with a strong focus on advanced development techniques.
  6. Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems immersed in microservice architecture.
  7. Ability to design REST APIs following business driven concepts, entities and best practices.
  8. Good understanding and experience of CI/CD.
  9. In-depth knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design principles.
  10. Expertise in implementing the Dependency Injection pattern and utilizing DI containers effectively.
  11. Comprehensive understanding of black box and white box testing methodologies.
  12. Excellent communication skills, collaboration across teams and critical thinking.
  13. Proven ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within a team.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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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 personal or 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 collaborate with 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.

 

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’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 our clients 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 relying on 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 force for good in the world.

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