Software Engineer – Mainframe
Truist
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Charlotte • North Carolina • United States
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About the role
- Deliver highly complex solutions with significant system linkages, dependencies, associated risk
- Lead and perform development efforts such as analysis, design, coding/creating, and testing
- Participate in testing, implementation, maintenance, and escalated support of Truist's most complex solutions
- Development includes but is not limited to customized coding, software integration, analysis, configuring solutions, or use tools pertinent to the area, project, or system to configure or generate a solution
- Ensure adherence to company and industry standards
- Provides technical consultation on extremely challenging or unusual situations
- Write and run unit tests
- Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results
- Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices
- Use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions
- Mentor less experienced teammates to build technical expertise
- Act as an Agile champion
- Responsible for delivering high quality working software and automating manual/reusable tasks working directly, and consulting with, the business from the beginning of the design work
- Leverage continuous engineering practices to deliver business value regarding effectiveness of the design
- Actively participate in refining user stories
- Responsible for development and developing unit testing, and supporting integration and functional testing
- Responsible for providing warranty support and providing knowledge transfer to production support
- Develop code in accordance with the acceptance criteria established by the Product Owner
- Daily partnership and interaction with multiple requestors, business partners, team members in ongoing scoping, delivery, and operationality of the mainframe application
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and eight to twelve years of experience as a developer or equivalent education and related training or experience
- Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge
- Sound understanding of business and organizational strategies and processes
- Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices
- Ability to lead complex projects
- Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to solve complex technical and business problems
- Ability to influence others at senior levels to adopt a new perspective
- TEN years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience preferred
- Banking or financial services experience; Truist-specific knowledge and experience a plus
- Deep knowledge and experience in Mainframe development and delivery with solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills
- Specifically require knowledge and experience with Mainframe Operating Systems (eg z/OS)
- Core Mainframe Languages (eg COBOL, Assembler, Java on z/OS, Python)
- Transaction & Data Processing: CICS, IMS, understanding of online & batch processing
- Databases & Data Access (eg DB2 for z/OS, IMS DB, VSAM, SQL)
- Job Control & Automation (eg JCL & Job Schedulers)
- Mainframe Tools & Utilities (eg Changeman)
- Mainframe Operations, System Interactions, security protocols, troubleshooting, problem ticket resolution
- Professional experience building apps or services from the ground up and scaling at an enterprise level
- Experience with Open Source tools and frameworks
- Strong understanding of SOA methodologies and service architectures
- Experience using web servers, application containers, caching technologies
- Solid knowledge of relational database design and development (SQL, stored procedures, data modeling)
- Experience with messaging systems (i.e., MQ and JMS)
- Experience with build tools, such as Git, Maven, and Jenkins
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment
- Tax-preferred savings accounts
- 401k plan
- No less than 10 days of vacation
- 10 sick days
- Paid holidays
- Eligibility for defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Mainframe developmentCOBOLAssemblerJava on z/OSPythonCICSIMSDB2 for z/OSSQLJCL
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingleadershipmentoringinfluencingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilitycritical thinkingproject management