Senior Application Engineer

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Job Posting Title

Senior Application Engineer

Job Description Summary

The Senior Application Engineer is responsible for supporting the Engineering Electronics users. He / She will also be a core member of the team supporting all the Electronics applications and the IBM ELM (Engineering Lifecycle Management) suite of applications. He/she performs a variety of activities including software installations, problem diagnosis, and troubleshooting for commercial electronics and embedded application packages and documenting a knowledge base. The Engineer will work closely with the business to implement new tools and provide suggestions for business process improvements.

Job Description

• Coordinate and work with the business leaders to provide solutions for the business on ELM.
• Suggest improvements to enhance the performance of the ELM systems.
• Handle change management and global configuration management.
• Understand Cloud systems and help implementation of IBM tools on the Cloud.
• Lead new software evaluations and/or upgrade the existing software in collaboration with Global teams
• Participate in evaluations and installs of all commercial Electronics Control System packages – Ex MathWorks products, Vector CANtech products, Compilers, and other such applications.
• Expert in Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), and adaptors
• Expert in Rational Doors Next Generations (RDNG) and Classic DOORS and the latest versions of ELM
• Lead/Manage/Participate in projects involving upgrade and deployment of the latest versions of ELM
• Monitor the health of the servers related to IBM Suite /ELM.
• Ability to configure and manage RTC Build Servers.
• Customize IBM RTC, RQM, DNG and other suites of tools for productivity enhancements using Rest-APIs.
• Identify productivity improvements in business processes and recommend ECS integration and productivity tools.
• Evaluate the impact of new software team processes. Plan and coordinate new software evaluation projects. Document system designs and architectures.
• Working and installing license managers on Linux or windows and maintaining applications running on Linux or windows
• Support other ECS tools and compilers like Cosmic compilers, Python compilers etc.
• Design License usage reporting for applications with new license managers and create automated license reports
• Write and maintain scripts to monitor disc usage, license, and application usage on ECS applications.
• Work with the Technical support team of ECS application suppliers and IBM to get issues resolved.
• All other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Education

• Engineering Degree in Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering preferred
• Project Management experience preferred
• 10+  years IBM Suite of tools with an emphasis on latest versions of ELM
• 5+ years of supporting commonly used Electronics applications like Vector products, CANtech products
• 2+ CLM/ELM Deployment and customization
• Experience in Integrating tools like Matlab, VCast, Ansys Medini etc. with IBM Suite of tools.

• Experience in supporting ECS Software Tools via install, upgrade, license management and reporting.
• Support ECS hardware like products from NI, Lauterbach devices, vector devices like vn-1630, zap debuggers and CAN products.
• Experience with configuration, installation, customization and support of Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality manager (RQM)
• Experience with configuration, installation, customization and support of Rational Doors Next Generations (RDNG) and Classic DOORS and latest versions of ELM
• Experience with configuring and management of Websphere, SQL Server and Oracle DB for ELM
• Develop customizations for RTC, RQM, DNG, CLM etc. with Java Rest APIs
• Experience with Global configuration and change management in ELM
• Understand ASPICE standards and suggest the implementation of ASPICE on the IBM suite
• Handle queries, issues and tickets from the Customer care center and satisfactorily resolve them within the pre-decided time frames based on ticket priority
• General NT administration
• MS-Office tools, working with excel formula, graphs, MS project etc.

About American Axle & Manufacturing

As a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, AAM (NYSE: AXL) designs, engineers and manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Headquartered in Detroit with nearly 85 facilities in 18 countries, AAM is bringing the future faster for a safer and more sustainable future. We work together to support our customers on global and regional platforms with a focus on quality, operational excellence and technology leadership.

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