Software Engineer 2 (Mainframe Developer))

U.S. Bank • Quinte West, ON

23h • 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
• Three to five years of relevant experience
• Expert-level COBOL development, debugging, and maintenance across complex mainframe applications
• Strong experience with CICS program development and support in high-volume transaction environments
• Advanced proficiency in JCL and PROCs creation, troubleshooting, and optimization
• Deep understanding of DB2 development, performance tuning, and maintenance in z/OS environments

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with modern integration patterns, including APIs (REST/JSON) and distributed system interactions
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (compute, storage, authentication, serverless)
• Experience with modern development tools and practices (Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD pipelines)
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and event-driven technologies such as Kafka

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Effectively represent MPS in meetings with the business line or other system areas on projects and ServiceNow requests
• Analyze and give feedback for a Technical Design and Coding Walk-Thru for any size project
• Mentor Junior level developers and the business line on MPS system components and processing.
• Work cooperatively with peers, management, and other business and system team members.
• Give direction and drive solutions during PI Planning, story refinement, and daily stand-ups.
• 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
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree