What You’ll Do:

• •   You’ll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative AI solutions and demonstrate these solutions to our clients.
• •  You’ll integrate with other teams across IBM to identify and build AI solutions that infuse and incorporate into Z Software portfolio.
• •   You’ll employ IBM’s Design Thinking to validate user scenarios to develop solutions with high performance, security, quality, and stability. 

Skills you will develop:

• An understanding of AI technologies (especially foundation and Large Language Models (LLM))
• Tackling the challenges of training, testing, benchmark, and validating AI generated content and code.
• Becoming familiar with the business applications of AI and how the Watsonx platform brings value to IBM clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2+ years experience in Java, Python, Go, Node.js, JavaScript, JSON, Open API specification.
• Proven experience in designing and developing APIs.
• Strong understanding of database concepts and experience working with relational databases, preferably Db2 for z/OS
• An interest in AI principles including prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) data transformations and vectors, etc..
• Strong and independent analytics and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with git, other source control practises, and various development tools and IDE’s.
• Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Tower. (Experience with Ansible strongly preferred, however open to other DevOps (Chef, Salt, Puppet) tools experience).
• Linux or UNIX development, network skills
• Exprience in creating test cases, test plan and test automation
• Experience with DevOps and Cloud computing – Docker, Kuberenetes, Openshift
• Agile Application Development & Scrum methodologies.
• Strong documentation/communication skills to manage work items.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with z/OS and mainframe technologies.
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies, such as Tekton or ArgoCD.
• Familiarity with Db2 for z/OS Utilities is highly preferred
• Knowledge of COBOL is plus
• Skilled at defining test strategies that can include AI and non AI solutions
• Experience in Generative AI strongly preferred.