Software Senior Engineer

• Provides full design, planning, configuration, documentation, deployment and top-level support ownership of storage infrastructure technologies
• Identifies design requirements and makes recommendations for capacity planning, performance optimization and future direction
• Designs storage solutions per business requirements
• This includes performing storage workload modeling for sizing, optimization and troubleshooting
• Researches and compares system/OS features and works with vendors on system sizing for specific applications
• Understands storage virtualization, data rationalization, workload automation, storage provisioning, Disaster Recovery and SAN Fabric management
• Troubleshoots storage-related reliability, availability, and performance issues
• Collaborates on and implements architecture recommendations to application integration, system administration, problem management, preventive maintenance, performance tuning
• Identifies and eliminates performance bottlenecks and makes performance-related recommendations (hardware, software, configuration)
• Leads or participates in the software development lifecycle, which includes research, new development, modification, security, correction of errors, reuse, re-engineering and maintenance of software products
• Manages or utilizes software that is built and implemented as a product, using best-in-class development process/lifecycle management (ex: Agile, Waterfall)
• Gathers business requirements and participates in product definition and feature prioritization, including customer usability studies
• Performs competitive analysis for features at a product level scope
• Leads the testing and fixing of new or enhanced products
• Creates technical documentation of software products/solutions
• Assists with the development and review of end user and technical end user documentation
• Drives idea generation for new software products, or for the next version of an existing product
• Protects Intellectual property by working appropriate legal elements (ex: procurement, patents, open source)
• Responsible for the delivery of products within budget, schedule and quality guidelines
• Works with the team to develop, maintain, and communicate current development schedules, timelines and development status
• Makes changes to system software to correct errors in the original implementation and creates extensions to existing programs to add new features or performance improvements
• Designs and develops major functional or performance enhancements for existing products, or produces new software products or tools
• Reviews requirements, specifications and designs to assure product quality; develops and implements plans and tests for product quality or performance assurance

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contributes to the design and architecture of new or re-engineered software/storage environments
• Prepares written software/storage specifications for complex products from architectural diagrams and documents
• Develops and reviews design, functional, technical and/or user documentation, as needed
• Develops, reviews, analyzes and implements test strategies for software products and systems/for storage products and systems
• Develops, tests and integrates code for new or existing software of significant complexity
• Provides sustaining or maintenance support to existing software/storage environment, either by implementation or providing guidance to less senior engineers
• Designs and implements source code revision control methods for products
• Prepares accurate project status documentation for leadership
• Measures and analyzes quality metrics
• Defines and implements actions for departmental or cross-functional process improvements
• Contributes to resource, schedule and cost sizing for software development projects of medium complexity