Software Engineer 1(Mainframe Production Support)

U.S. Bank • Brookfield, WI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Two to three years of relevant experience
• Strong hands-on experience with COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, and SQL in a mainframe (z/OS) environment
• Deep expertise with MVS and DB2 utilities for production support, troubleshooting, and data remediation
• Proven experience providing L2/L3 production support, including batch and online application support
• Hands-on knowledge of CA7 (or similar) scheduling tools for batch job monitoring and resolution
• Strong ability to analyze, debug, and resolve abends, performance issues, and data-related incidents
• Experience collaborating closely with development, operations, and partner teams to drive root-cause fixes
• Clear and effective communication skills to provide status updates, incident summaries, and documentation

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting test environments by monitoring batch schedules, converting production jcl to run in test regions, maintaining batch schedule in ca-7,
• Coordinating changes to migrate to test region with development engineers and running ad-hoc jobs/processed or development when needed.
• 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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level