Mainframe Developer

Hiring Mgr description - 10+ years experience - 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. - 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. - 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. Preferred Skills/Experience - Thorough understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted and feature's purpose - Technical designs are clear, well thought out, and considers dependencies, failure states, maintainability, testability and ease of support - Considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs - Understands the team's domain, how work in this domain relates to the team's objectives and deliverables and how it contributes to overall business strategy and how technical strategy maps to this - Thoroughly understands the business model in relation to their current product focus area - Ability to analyze the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to consider more than one domain within an analysis - Looks for opportunities to simplify product and technical design - Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles - 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 - Strong problem-solving and analytical skills - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Candidate must have recent experience in leading an offshore team using COBOL, DB2 or similar DataBase(IMS), VSAM, JCL MVS operating system, Expeditor, Endeavor and/or Changeman source managers. *********************************************************** Expertise with RPG400, RPG III, COBOL, or SYNON in an AS/400 environment, or COBOL or C in one of a variety of mid-range platforms such DEC VAX or HP3000. AS/400 Programmer, VAX Programmer, HP Programmer. Performs all or part of full life cycle development process with an emphasis on developing business applications, supporting existing applications, modifying/enhancing them support current needs, and implementing the changes necessary as the needs of the business unit s change. Usually involves high-volume and large-scale batch or online processing.