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Software Engineer 2 - Mainframe (Cobol, JCL, VSAM)

U.S. Bank

U.S. Bank

Software Engineering
Multiple locations
Posted on Jul 30, 2024

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products

  • Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code

  • Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs

  • Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements

  • Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront

  • Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards

  • Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures

  • Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices

  • Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards

  • Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation

  • Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement

  • Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

  • Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

  • Strong technical knowledge and skills in Cobol, DB2 , JCL, VSAM

  • Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles

  • Complete understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted and feature's purpose

  • Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solutions requirements for end user

  • Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers

  • Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices

  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

  • Basic term and optional term life insurance

  • Short-term and long-term disability

  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave

  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

  • Adoption assistance

  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

EEO is the Law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors. Applicants can learn more about the company’s status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal KNOW YOUR RIGHTS EEO poster.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

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