Responsibilities:Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirementsDesigns, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintainedMentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stackExecutes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecyclePerforms spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideasAutomates manual release activitiesDesigns, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)Lead the design, development, and implementation of real-time data replication solutions using IBM IIDR to support Never Down (NVD) initiatives. Strong troubleshooting skills with expertise in analyzing IBM IIDR logs, DB2 logs, Mainframe SYSLOG / JES logs,Skilled in analyzing: Network issues affecting replication; Communication/handshake issues; Serialization or conflict errors; Schema evolution problems across IBM IIDR and Confluent Kafka.