Software Engineer/oca Configurator Developer

Software Engineer/OCA Configurator Developer

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers' outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today's fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what's next for you.

What You Will Do:

OCA developer primary responsibilities:

• Develop code to set up product data and rules in HPE proprietary configurators' Knowledge Base (KB).
• Develop proficiency (depth) in the code for certain product lines but a minimal code familiarity is expected for all other areas, especially the companion products to KE's primary product.
• Understand product requirements.
• Fully understand and review technical specifications.
• Understand HPE's CPQ (configure price quote) ecosystem, including:
• Users - Sales and Partners
• Tools – configurators and quoting tools
• Touchpoints of the HPE configurators - various applications, servers and data stores
• Touchpoints of the HPE Configurator Knowledge Base (KB) to the HPE configurator application layers.
• Conduct integration and solution testing.
• Be able to pinpoint the source of configuration issues.
• Be able to test (white box testing) the configuration for the coded product as well as its integration with other products – test customer orderable HPE product solution.
• Be able to provide maintenance and application support.
• Be able to manage schedules for meeting timelines for assigned New Product Introduction work as well as fixing assigned issues within the SLA.
• Be able to communicate within and outside our Knowledge Engineering Services (KES) team as required about the status for NPI and bug fixes.
• Actively contribute to a high-performing KES community, including:
• Leveraging standards set by the Technical Architects
• Participating in peer code reviews
• Maintaining documentation
• Conducting a self-audit of the root cause for production support tickets
• Demonstrate resilience, persistence, and positivity when faced with challenging technical topics and difficult user feedback.
• Proven proficiency for coding and debugging in Java and JavaScript
• Fast learner -- Besides Java, Angular and JavaScript, the job requires learning a proprietary configuration language (NGC)
• Interface with and understand Business Units for perspective, marketing view, customer perspective, what they want to buy and factory perspective and how to build.

What You Need To Bring:

• Excellent understanding of software development life cycle.
• Willingness to work in EMEA shift.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where the project cycles can be as short as 1 week to 3 months from requirement gathering to release to production.
• Ability to work across geographically spread out cross-functional teams– within KES as well as outside (Sales, presales, partners, Business Units, factory…).
• Motivation to suggest (and implement) improvements to the existing code development environment, debugging tools and testing tools.
• Good written and verbal (English) communication skills.

OCA developer will also include, provide technical support to the creation and delivery of software products, conducts or participates in technical research and collaboration with developers in the process, design, development, and usage of software development tools and systems. Responsibilities may include being part of the team or project in the area of expertise, planning, supporting, coordinating, integrating, troubleshooting, and administering systems used as part of the Software Development infrastructure to control and release components. This applies to the documentation, design, code, integration, test ware, testing activities, change control activities, release activities as well as the tracking and delivery of Software Products.

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development:

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion:

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.