Syniverse - Senior Software Development Engineer - Java Technologies

Description :

A Senior Software Development Engineer has the responsibilities to develop new applications and perform lifecycle support for existing applications.

The engineer must possess in depth knowledge of a sub system within the environment and the tools that support company s products.

The engineer must also attend and contribute in internal team meetings. In addition, the engineer must be completely accountable for all assigned tasks.

Finally, the engineer is required to adhere to all of company s software development procedures and processes while fulfilling the leadership role.

Some of What You'll Do :

Scope of the Role :

Direct Reports: This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports

Key Responsibilities :

- Development and automation and execution of Unit and Functional Tests to demonstrate the conformance of software with the functional/ performance/ user experience requirements

- Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt it to new hardware, or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance.

- Create high-level or detailed design documents from requirements utilizing Object-Oriented or Structured Methods that contain such items as use cases, flow diagrams, structure definitions and architecture diagrams.

- Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt it to new hardware, or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance

- Ensure software security by developing programs to actively monitor the sharing of private information

- Integration testing across interfacing functional groups that may be involved, such as Crossroads, billing and reporting.

- On-boarding new customers by verifying network connections to a customers network, assisting in troubleshooting connections problems, and configuring the production system with customer-specific application parameters.

- Analyzing causes for outages by reviewing logs, viewing queues, monitoring message links.

- Review design documents, code and test results to insure accuracy and completeness and adherence to the requirements .

- Document thorough release notes detailing the implementation process according to company procedures

- Present the implementation plan in formal release planning walk- thrus .

- Assist operations with the actual implementation of an application.

- Perform post-implementation monitoring and testing to insure the release is functioning as expected.

- Work with Product Support to research customer reported problems

- Analyze application logs, network traces and program traces to determine the root cause of reported problems

- Using company s test environment and emulation tools, duplicate problematic scenarios reported by the customer.

Experience , Education , and Certifications :

- 5+ years of w orking technical experience in coding, testing, supporting, troubleshooting, designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting Unix servers and storage servers and management software

Working experience in :

- Compiler, Debugger.

- Java, C, C++ Languages.

- Production runtime environment.

- Object-Oriented and Structured development methodologies.

- RDBMS, SQL.

- ISPF, JCL/PROC.

- COBOL, REXX, Easytrieve , Clist .

- VSAM, DB2.

- File-Aid, Expeditor, ESP.

Additional Requirements :

- Work well within a team environment.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills.

- Independent work habits.

- Proven ability to deliver quality software on time.

- Act with a sense of urgency.

- Positive attitude - optimism.

- Maintain composure in a stressful environment.

- Strong analytical, business logic and problem resolution skills.

- Strong control and follow-up skills.

- Solid decision making skills.

- Project Management knowledge