Hybrid Software Engineer 1 – Mainframe Developer

at U.S. Bank

• Job title: Software Engineer 1 – Mainframe Developer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $86,360 - $101,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Brookfield, United States

About the role

• Software Engineer responsible for mainframe development and maintenance at U.S. Bank. Collaborating on agile software development lifecycle and ensuring software reliability standards.

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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Two to three years of relevant experience
• Solid understanding of mainframe fundamentals, including JCL, VSAM, DB2/SQL, batch processing, file handling, and IBM z/OS environments
• Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries for DB2, including use of SPUFI
• Familiarity with IDz (IBM Developer for z/OS) for editing, analyzing, debugging, and managing mainframe source code
• Knowledge of GitLab for version control, branching, code reviews, and CI/CD processes in mainframe DevOps pipelines
• Good understanding of SDLC
• Ability to communicate processes and results to both technical and non-technical groups
• Effective problem solving and analytical skills

Benefits

• 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