Software Engineer 1 (Mainframe Developer (COBOL))

U.S. Bank • Brookfield, WI

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, the company is committed to helping customers and businesses make better financial decisions and enabling communities to grow. They believe in the unique potential of each individual and offer a wide range of opportunities for career growth and learning. This position is responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development, and maintenance of best-in-class software experiences. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate within a team and across the organization, taking responsibility for software artifacts that adhere to U.S. Bank standards to ensure minimal impact on customer experience. The candidate should 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 technical knowledge and skills in Cobol, DB2 , JCL, VSAM
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• 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
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

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
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation

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
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• Pension

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees