Software Engineer 2 (Mainframe, Cobol)

Company:  US Bank
Location: Brookfield
Closing Date: 06/11/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

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:

  1. Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
  2. Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
  3. Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
  4. Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
  5. Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
  6. Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
  7. Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
  8. Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
  9. Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
  10. Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
  11. Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
  12. 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

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.

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