Senior Product Developer (Mainframe)

BMC Software

9d•$114,525 - $190,875•Remote

About The Position

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage. We are looking for a Senior Product Developer (Mainframe) to join our amazing Intelligent z Optimization & Transformation group (IZOT) in the AMI DevX Team (fully remote in either US or Canada; we're unable to offer visa sponsorship). In this role, you’ll be responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing BMC’s core mainframe SCLM product, BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline. You will be acting as a subject matter expert on C, C++, Assembler, JES2, z/OS internals, ISPF Panels, CLIST and JCL – including mentoring and providing technical guidance to team members.

Requirements

8-10 years of experience with z/OS Environment (including structure and logic), working in z/OS Internals.
8-10 years of experience in IBM coding and development, including extensive development experience using C, C++ programming languages. (system-side development – not only applications development), Good handle on HLASM, CLIST, JCL.
Strong experience working with JES2. Experience with IBM Mainframe environment (TSO/ISPF, JCL, Db2, VSAM etc.).
Dump reading analysis is critical using IPCS, XDC etc.
Experience in developing working code utilizing low-level operating system functions to accomplish a desired task.
Experience creating functional designs/specifications from business requirements.
In-depth experience in troubleshooting complex problems at application and systems levels.
Self-starter with ability to work both independently and as a part of a team.

Nice To Haves

Adoption of AI-assisted development practices across the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), leveraging tools such as Cursor.ai to improve productivity, code quality, design efficiency, and development velocity.
Utilize Cursor.ai to accelerate software design, code generation, unit test creation, debugging, refactoring, code reviews, and technical documentation activities.
Knowledge of Source code management tools like BMC Code pipeline, GitHub
SMP/e knowledge is a plus.
DUMP Reading
Knowledge of Mainframe Db2 and SQL

Responsibilities

Lead and successfully design, develop, test, maintain and deliver Code Pipeline, product lines and solutions using C, C++, HLASM etc.
Design, Code and fix bugs
Produce a range of high-quality design options, reflecting a wide breadth of technical knowledge and insight. Conduct code and design reviews.
Maintain current knowledge of mainframe environments, industry trends, and related software technologies.
Work directly with global clients on complex product issues/escalations.
Mentor/provide technical guidance to the development team.