Mainframe Developer

Job Title: Mainframe Developer

Location: Brookfield WI , Minneapolis MN , Hopkins MN , Irving TX , Atlanta GA , Charlotte , NC - Onsite

Duration : Longterm Contract

Essential Responsibilities:

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

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Must have 8+ years of hands-on experience in mainframe development.
• Strong technical experience and skills in Cobol, DB2 , JCL, VSAM
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle
• 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
• Must have hands on onsite and offshore coordination .
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills