Senior Software Engineer

Job Number: 33769

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer

External Description:

Senior Software Engineer

Our Team

The Core Technology Group (CTG) is the innovation hub within Informatica that is responsible for delivering an extensible, reliable and scalable platform that provides the solid foundation for all other Informatica products. Specifically, our team focuses on building a high-performance and scalable Data Engine that can scale on multi-processor environments as well on a cluster of nodes. The engine is capable of handling batch, request/response and real-time workloads to deliver data for applications.

Your Opportunity

The Data Engine has been a key constituent of Informatica’s Platform and serves multiple products such as Big Data Management, Data Services, Data Quality, Profiling and PowerCenter. Informatica products rely on the Data Engine to fulfill the vision of a Virtual Data Machine which can execute data integration jobs either natively or across execution environments such as relational databases, Hadoop or the cloud. You will be a key contributor to Informatica’s next-generation platform and how it handles the volume, velocity and variety of structured and unstructured data. It could be enterprise and partner data from hosted Cloud services and on-premise deployments or arbitrary data from social web sites and media.

The position is suited for highly motivated and energetic individuals with a desire to work on product development. You will work on delivering new products/product features in an environment that spans all flavors of Unix/Windows operating systems. You will work across multiple product lines and deliver solutions that benefit customers with consistent functionality across multiple products. 

Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Engine team at Informatica who shall be responsible for building and delivering key functionalities in the Data Engine; one who has advanced problem-solving skills and technical aptitudes that will allow one to adapt to new circumstances and learn quickly when facing new problems and challenges. One who can communicate effectively with geographically separated team members and drive problems to solutions.

Your Responsibilities

• Facilitating the collaboration and engagement between senior members of the team to ensure the sound design and implementation of key functional areas for the product
• Incubating and designing the next-generation platform for complex heterogeneous systems and applications involving cutting-edge technologies.
• Working closely with architects and developers and QA engineers to discuss and evangelize features
• Collaborating with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
• Participating in internal/cross-team meetings, scoping, decision making and technical documentation
• Mentoring junior engineers on technical, architectural, design and related issues
• Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommending appropriate solutions
• Taking architectural ownership of functional areas in the product 
• Ensures high quality of all development work; follows development process without guidance, but with reviews.
• Is attentive to detail and accuracy is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds the root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Takes ownership and responsibility, keeps management well-informed.
• Follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
• Understands the impact of work on the feature/product/team.
• Guides own work to timely and complete conclusions.
• Organizes own activities reliably; during critical time periods, works hard to achieve tasks.

Your Qualifications

• S./M.S./B.Tech/M.Tech/PhD in Computer Science
• 3 or more years of server-side software development experience, a portion of which was within an enterprise software company
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, analyzing, optimizing, and troubleshooting systems and system-related technology
• Design experience preferably with a product engineering background
• Object-oriented design and programming.
• Strong programming skills (C/C++/Java) and exposure to multi-threaded development.
• Understanding of Unix/NT systems programming.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

City: Bangalore

State: Karnataka

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

Travel Requirement: Limited

Location_formattedLocationLong: Bangalore, Karnataka IN